bounds of decency, and to be regarded as atrocious, and utterly intolerable in a civilized community.’ ” Hogan v. Forsyth Country Club Co., 79 N.C.App. 483, 493, 340 S.E.2d 116, 123 (1986) (quoting Restatement (Second) of Torts § 46 comment (d) (1965)). The conduct Plaintiff has complained of in this case does not reach this level of atrocity. The conduct that Plaintiff complains of in regard to her emotional distress claim consists merely of (1) Defendant’s termination of her employment, and (2) Defendant’s action in subpoenaing her employment records from a subsequent employer. The court finds that Defendant’s conduct in terminating Plaintiffs employment was not “extreme and outrageous.” See McKnight v. Simpson’s Beauty Supply, Inc., 86 N.C.App. 451, 454, 358 S.E.2d 107, 109 (1987) (<HOLDING>). Furthermore, the court finds that it was not
holding that the fact that defendants discharge of plaintiff was abrupt without cause and unexplained was not enough to support a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress holding that act did not bar intentional infliction of emotional distress claim holding that a tort claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress is distinct from a claim for emotional distress damages under the employment discrimination statute recognizing validity of cause of action for intentional infliction of emotional distress recognizing the tort of intentional infliction of emotional distress