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Facebook firing: People are still this stupid?
AHAHAHAHAHA!
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| Facebook firing after 'friend' boss ripped In tech terms, it's called a cascading failure. A woman in Britain being called "Lindsay" made a big one this week, and it cost her her job. First, she came home after a hard day and, rather than complaining to the cat, decided to do it on the web. Lindsay opened up her Facebook account and posted a fairly vulgar description of her boss. "OMG, I HATE MY JOB!" Lindsay wrote. "My boss is a total pervvy wanker always making me do s--- stuff." Mistake No. 2. Mistake No. 3. was forgetting that her boss was one of her Facebook friends, and thus had access to all of her posted comments. Mistake No. 4 was firing this broadside two weeks before the end of a six-month trial period. Five hours after Lindsay posted her lament, her boss replied. "I guess you forgot about adding me on here?" his post began. Then he proceeded to rip her straight back. "That `s--- stuff' is called your `job', you know, what I pay you to do? But the fact that you seem able to f--- up the simplest of tasks might contribute to how you feel about it." Angry boss then points out that Lindsay is a couple of weeks shy of the end of her trial period and delivers the coup de gr�ce. "Don't bother coming in tomorrow. I'll pop your P45 (pink slip) in the post, and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you've left here. And, yes, I'm serious." The Schadenfreude moment appears to be genuine. A screen capture of the exchange � with names blacked out � has been circulating the web for several days. "It is pretty hysterical," said labour lawyer Mary Beth Currie. "Well, not for her." According to Currie, the sort of treatment Lindsay received at her boss's hands could also happen in Canada. "Yes, a termination would be possible," Currie said. "People have to realize that they can't disparage their employer after working hours like this." It is now normal practice in this country to include a paragraph addressing what can and can't be done on social networking sites into the section of employee agreements covering Internet policy. "This is not unusual," said Peter Biro, a partner at WeirFoulds LLP. "You're going to see kajillions of cases like this out there." This is the latest in a series of headline-grabbing stories of irked employees typing and living to regret it. From a Swiss insurance worker chopped for Facebooking while home ill, to a Brit public relations drone axed for complaining about being "bored" in her work, people are learning the hard way that bad moods are temporary, but the Internet is forever. Nor would it be the first time someone's been cut via a social networking site. B.C. aesthetician Crystal Bell made headlines in January after she was fired over Facebook, though not for anything she had written online. In Lindsay's case, the lesson is clear. Choose your (Facebook) friends wisely. |
That UNITY right there man. WOW
Haha, what a dumb bitch.
I'm not naming names, but I can think of a few people who might learn a lesson or two from this.
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| Originally posted by DigiNut Haha, what a dumb bitch. I'm not naming names, but I can think of a few people who might learn a lesson or two from this. |
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| Originally posted by Spam Ever notice that the most vocal bitchers about their job are usually the same people that deserve to be fired for incompetence? |
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| Originally posted by DigiNut Stands to reason, actually - people who are highly competent are likely to either enjoy their jobs or get promoted into better positions. People who aren't, generally don't realize this and aren't confident in their ability to find a new job if they quit. They call our reaction schadenfreude, I call it karma. Everybody has bad days, myself included, but the trivial shit and outright paranoid delusions some people manage to bitch about consistently blow my mind. |
how different must your online profile be from your real name/personality before it can not be legally linked to you in this way?
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| Originally posted by Flec how different must your online profile be from your real name/personality before it can not be legally linked to you in this way? |
for some reason I'm happy FB is blocked at work and none of my bosses are on my friend list lol not that I complain about anything I do at work..
when you have enough time to bitch about your work/boss on facebook while AT work, you obviously aren't working and don't deserve to be hired.
Yeah, 2 weeks ago I name changed for similar reasons.
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| Originally posted by Abercrombie Yeah, 2 weeks ago I name changed for similar reasons. |
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| Originally posted by LKD i hate when people bitch on social networks to seek the sympathy of their "friends" |
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| Originally posted by italarmo +1 there's probably only a handfull of those "friends" that actually care about what you're bitching about. and the ones that comment after your ranting post, are just nosey. |
I saw a co worker (ex) post similar stuff about the dept itself. It was just wow. Don't know if it got to that point though, also don't think he added management on as a friend, hah.
hehe I thought of this thread when I saw a local DJ write in the status "I wanna fire my website creator and I dont care if she reads thisssss!!"
haha I wonder if this person actually went through with it?
I personally dont have a huge opinion about it. people can share or not share as much info as they want, its their own choice. But they need to be aware of WHO has access to their info, and the possible consequences of what they write.
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| Originally posted by Flec how different must your online profile be from your real name/personality before it can not be legally linked to you in this way? |
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| Originally posted by Skipper It doesn't take much. Log in once from work and there you go. |
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| Originally posted by FunkyCrew something weird happened last week - my supevisor was talking to one of our new clients on the phone, when he asked her if she's on Facebook and if she's on the left on her FB profile pic ( )he then told her he has some smart-ass script program that links his address book to their respecive FB/twitter accounts... thing is, she uses her maiden name on FB AND FB is completely blocked at work anyhow, I was so weirded out by that.. plus it wasn't very professional of him to start asking questions about her profile pic lol |
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| Originally posted by LKD as your boss, he may have admin privileges to bypass proxy restrictions. as for address books with twitter/FB, anyone can do that...you can import your address books for FB to scrub and look for friends with those email addresses |
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| Originally posted by FunkyCrew trust me, I'm the only one here aware of wonders of anonymous proxy sites |
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| Originally posted by DigiNut Even if that's true, it doesn't have to be an anonymous proxy. The internal corporate firewall/proxy could just as easily be set up with special exceptions for special staff (we make exceptions for IT staff and certain executives). And yeah, it's a weird thing to ask, but that's what you get for having a public profile. If you don't want to get creeped, don't put your shit up for the whole world to see. |
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| Originally posted by FunkyCrew I don't think it's that public - I mean we all have our profile photo showing to anyone who visits the profile, it's other things that are not available for viewing. Basically her profile to non-friends looks like this - name, profile picture and any mutual friends that me and her have. And she's under a different last name as well, so that makes it even more strange... |
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| Originally posted by LKD you keep forgetting that he found her based on his contact list. ie. based on the same email address being used |
i never add work people to facebook unless my work is a club. Considering how judgemental coworkers and bosses are about what people do after work on their own personal time, its no ones business what im up to outside of work.
Why should i get fired because i like to go out all weekend for example?
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