Originally Posted by
Often1
No. That is not what OP says he did. He says that he entered the codes he found on the blog on the web and was rejected.
IHG then fired him.
Had he called and asked whether he could non-fraudulently use the codes he found on the blog on the Internet, we can presume that IHG would have said "no" or would have said "yes" and he would have been fine. Either way, it's not likely that IHG would have fired him.
Exactly.
When they rejected him the issue was over. Or should have been. He asked, they said no. That is fine. That is where it ends. It isn't fraud. It isn't attempted fraud. Asking via a telephone is no different than via a computer. The claim through the thread is that he did something illegal or somehow morally wrong. He hasn't.
Firing him for asking is within the gift of IC, but it is silly and childish and simply reflects poorly on IC.