I am doing a presentation and am looking for examples where employees (outside of military) either got themselves in legal trouble or were fired for talking to the media or posting on social media negatively about their employer.
Any help is welcome, since my work system has some challenges with googling things.
I dont know if she will be fired, but this nurse at the Texas ebola hospital was pretty harsh with her employer on the Today show this morning.
There might be some info at Glassdoor.com.
Maybe some things here:
Edward Snowden.
Most whistleblowers, really.
I have no idea if unions have examples on their websites, but I’d start with AFSCME for examples. Also, if you have access to some databases, some of the trade-related journals (nursing, firefighting, librarian) should have articles and letters to the editor.
Thank you all - sometimes the firewall can be a PITA.
ISTM I saw some article recently, in which it was pointed out (or alleged) that the same hospital has a history of complaints about firing workers who have spoken up.
ETA: Okay, maybe that isn’t exactly what I saw. Here it is:
Dallas nurses complain Ebola patient left in open area; hospital staff given flimsy protection
I’ve always been partial to this story:
ValleyWag posted this story yesterday about an Uber driver who was canned (“permanently deactivated”) from driving for the company for a Tweet that the company didn’t like.
This is a little different from what you’re looking for, because Uber drivers are not technically employees, but private contractors. Still, it seems to fit the general theme.
Not sure if this is helpful, but some companies use “threat intelligence” services to scour the internet for chatter related to the company. At my previous employer, we used a service called Cyveillance (Cyveillance - Wikipedia) to alert us if anyone had posted proprietary information on their Twitter page, or if anyone on IRC was discussing an upcoming attack against us, etc. We used it as part of our security program, but sometimes we bumped stuff up to HR. If we saw someone had posted something like “my supervisor lets my coworker get away with harassment”, we’d pass that on to HR. If it was just random “my job is boring” kind of stuff, we’d ignore it.
Anyway, depending on what you’re going for in your presentation, you might take a look at these kinds of services. I would imagine some companies use these type of things more heavily for weeding out complainers than we did.
I understand the term in the restaurant biz is “promoted to guest”.
When I worked for AT&T before the second breakup they like to publish the org chart upside down, with the CEO on the bottom and customers on top - so we called an exec being fired “promoted to customer.”
Any union dispute will have lots of examples of nasty things being posted - but I’m not sure about the getting fired part.
I think it happens to teachers fairly often, but it is also a morals issue, not just complaining about the school. Try NEA.com or here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/fired-because-of-facebook/
This teacher was fired from “the most ghetto school in Charlotte”. Other business people are here also.
www.businessinsider.com/facebook-fired-2011-5?op=1