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Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Guest — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:48:13 -0000

And if you did loudly bitch about your boss in a social setting with your boss in the room, can your boss fire you for that? You have heard of EEOC, right?

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Ricky Maveety — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:55:40 -0000

Interesting, but using an example of really poor judgment by a girl in the United Kingdom is maybe not the best idea in an article about business in the United States. I mean, they are different countries after all.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

minder — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:20:23 -0000

That site seems to have been hacked or this is a set-up for ADware.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Sara — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:41:04 -0000

People like that REALLY irritate me!!!! If you don't like your job: QUIT!!! I for one and working my butt off to find work, and haven't gotten a job yet! I'll take your job if you don't want it! Instead, people are hiring morons like that to work and leaving people who WANT to work and who are willing to work their rear ends off at work, in the cold! Some of us go into work, work hard, and stay away from social networking sites while at work...but so far I have only seen people ON facebook, etc AT WORK! Don't you know what going to work means? It means stop the socialness and actually DO your job in the time that is allotted to you. You can socialize AFTER work!!! STOP complaining about how much you hate your job...find a new one or quit!!! (obviously this girl may NEVER get a job again! at least she shouldn't!!!) I am so sick of people complaining, when there are ENOUGH people out of work right now who NEED jobs! I think I can speak for everyone who is out of work: WE'LL TAKE JOBS FROM THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT THEM!!!! and a note to employers: stop hiring stupid people who aren't willing to do their jobs and just want free money...some of us STILL do have a work ethic!

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

everyday hero — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:03:20 -0000

All you corporate jocks sucks ass...always picking on the little guy. Well suits suck! Now twit that you twits!

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Strepsi — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:21:52 -0000

RE: "unless you’re absolutely sure both your privacy settings and IT setup make sure that whatever you’re saying will only be read by its intended audience." Um, not even then. Anything you are doing on a company time on a company computer is part of your corporate communications and is owned by your employer. Owned. Email too: I can't tell you the number of people forwarding questionable jokes on corporate email accounts -- that is part of your communications record. So the only real answer is... NEVER. Never at work. Never.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Teach — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:07:12 -0000

I would have fired her as well. How appropriate.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

mike — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:55:50 -0000

Embrace? Not my company. You're not allowed to be on any social media outlets and we continually check. Dont like it - work somewhere else.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

mike — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:53:12 -0000

The boss wasnt the problem. Its the shit for brain everything-revolves-around-me generation-entitlement kids that we have to choose from for a "worker pool" that is the problem. This girl is their poster child.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Jamie Favreau — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:56:51 -0000

I guess this girl made it into Mashable and got fired. So does she officially make it into the Social Media Hall of Shame?

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Silencio Barnes — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:18:17 -0000

@Annie...thanks - at work - got stuck on that lamebook site for like a good hour and a half :)) I liked it so much...I'm gonna blog about it :P

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Martin Meyer-Gossner — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:48:13 -0000

OK, negative news is good news: So, 92% kept their job though being a "social median"... It is time to hear some positive statistics... i.e. how many people found a job via social media, how many companies recruit via social media or if bosses complimented someone for their social media activities. Isn't this the right approach to find employer's acceptance and respect for social media - and make it presentable in the decision makers level?

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Annie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:52:28 -0000

Come on. Really? What she did was as if she loudly bitched about her boss to her friends in a social setting while forgetting that her boss was still in the room. She posted something that shows up on her boss' friends page the second he logs in. He didn't go digging for it, and she was still within her trial period at a new job, and it sounds like she wasn't doing very well at her job to begin with and this was just the final straw.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Annie — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:47:55 -0000

The person who make the status update isn't necessarily the person who screencapped it. Check out lamebook.com It's a treasure trove of the stupid things people do and say on facebook that others grab and send in. After going through that site and seeing many similar TMI moments on my own FB home page, I totally believe that someone will do something that stupid online.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Asif Youssuff — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:05:34 -0000

Maybe he doesn't *have* a boss.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Asif Youssuff — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:04:32 -0000

The smart thing here is really just to have an SSH tunnel or remote desktop/vnc/nx etc out of the spying eyes of your corporate overlords.

Obviously, if you are posting stuff on the open web, stuff may come back to bite you though.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Keith Crosley — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 20:38:49 -0000

Actually, stats about % of companies with acceptable use policies for social media and many other things are in the full report:

http://www.proofpoint.com/o...

(We found that 66% of responding companies had formalized a policy for acceptable use of social networking sites.)

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Ex-Vegan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:31:38 -0000

Yes, she was a twit to post stuff about her job on her Facebook profile. BUT the boss's response was much worse than what she did. He should have taken the high road and talked to her IN PRIVATE, and he should have been disciplined by HIS boss for misuse of social media (in private, of course).

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Jim Mitchem — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:26:22 -0000

Would be nice to know what percentage of new hires for companies was the direct result of social media, too.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

bhartzer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:25:23 -0000

I bet it's a lot higher than 8 percent. If they're misbehavin' online, then I wonder what they're doing while they're "working". Social media just makes it easier to "catch" those who are misbehavin' anyway. And they probably shouldn't have been working for those companies anyway.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

MaryRachel — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:24:17 -0000

I don't post anything negative about my company or my boss on FB. For the most part I like my job and my boss - we all have those days. Any issues he and I have are discussed amongst ourselves. I know when he is upset with me and he knows when I am upset with him. Yes, he is my FB friend but we are about the same age and have stuff in common. Not all the execs in the company are my FB friends. Most are not.

I also have a few parts of my page blocked from my boss but I am aware that someone can make a screenshot and send it to him whether or not he is my FB friend. I also do not post stories about the company (positive ones) until I know they are officially out in the press, just in case it's still privileged info. For the most part as far as my company is concerned I am a mini-PR machine. I love our product. That is why I have always wanted to work here. The product I am not very fond of, I ignore.

What I worry about is if posting what I think of Saint Paul the Apostle or other sensitive topics can get me in trouble. It's not like I work for a church and as far as I know my boss is not uber-religious and knows I have a big mouth; however, I am not sure where the line between personal and professional ends anymore.

Last November before I culled my FB friends list, I saw one of the people in HR post that she did not know if she would be able to speak to someone if she knew they had voted for (or was it against) Prop 8. I thought that was a bit unprofessional coming from HR but its a valid opinion as is the flip side.

My question is basically, what can one be fired for? Talking smack about the company makes sense but a sensitive PERSONAL opinion, unprofessional or not should not impact your job one way or another.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Matt Leonard — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:24:09 -0000

Has anyone noticed that the survey is of companies with greater than 1,000 employees? How many things do you think companies of that size have fired people for? I'll bet 8% have fired people for stealing other people's leftovers. Way to manipulate the numbers to make a story.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

swag — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:39:43 -0000

Uh, grow up, girl. If you work for a public company, what an employee publishes about it can get it into hot water with the SEC. Anyone who thinks all information should be public is lacking a clue.

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Michael Bauser — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:24:39 -0000

I have to friend my co-workers. If I don't, how will I ask them "What happened?" when they get their asses fired for doing something stupid?

Re: FACEBOOK FIRED: 8% of US Companies Have Sacked Social Media Miscreants

Michael Bauser — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:20:36 -0000

Really? Because I think we'll see more and more of this as companies realize it's easy to replace stupid employess when the U-6 rate is over 16%. Corporations usually get meaner to employees during high unemployment periods.