I just read about this woman. She was forced to resign after posting some inflammatory comments to another person’s Facebook page.
This has become quite commonplace. Every day I read about something like this happening. So it seems to me that people should eventually learn to censor themselves better.
Have you or anyone you know ever been fired or forced to resign based on social media postings?
I fired someone because of his posts to a coworker’s Facebook timeline.
Well, our resident Euro dopers will be glad to know they have a ghetto culture.
The last company I worked for contracted a service that monitored the internet for unapproved disclosures of the company’s data and for disparaging or threatening remarks about the company or its execs. I was on the security team that received alerts from the monitoring service and passed them on to HR when they met certain criteria. I usually didn’t hear what happened to the people we sent to HR. I imagine a fair number of them were walked out the door.
I have a friend who, five-plus years ago, was very dissatisfied with her job (mainly because of her boss).
She started blogging online about her job, her boss, and how much she hated them.
Worse, she did this during work time. :smack:
Someone eventually found out about it and she was let go.
Even today her work history has not quite recovered. 
Some of us post on the internet anonymously so we don’t have this problem.
Did these idiots actually use their real. in-the-phone-book, identities when making these comments?
I had assumed that it took some digging to track a comment back to a DNA-based entity.
No, I do not use any of the Social Networks - LinkedIn has my email, but not much more (minimum required to get an email for an old acquaintance).
If these people are creating permanent id’s with their IRL names, addresses, employers, etc. and then posting crap, I give up on humanity.
And now FB has expanded is search ability to go further back in a poster’s history.
This should make for even more interesting reading…
If people delete their facebook posts does it delete it from everywhere it may have been reposted?
Thanks to shady tech [del]shadow-funded under The Patriot Act[/del] that has somehow been created by spontaneous generation like Regin, Turla and Stingray, you HAVE no privacy.
I was called into a meeting with my boss and her boss (so 2 levels up).
I had listed my place of work on my Facebook page - innocent enough.
I never checked Facebook and really only had an account to check on my daughter and make sure she wasn’t doing anything stupid.
Anyway, a friend from high school who I was friends with on Facebook had apparently drank the FOX cool aid and had been posing racist and threatening screeds. These showed up on my page since we were friends and the company thought that my association with him and my identification of one of their employees on the same page was a potential image problem.
I was told I could remove my place of employment from my Facebook page, unfriend the person making the questionable posts, or find work elsewhere - my choice.
I wonder how much longer this will be an issue. The newer generations are already growing up with no expectation of privacy. So someone said something stupid on Facebook… how long before employers start saying “Big fucking deal, who doesn’t do that?”
At some point, wouldn’t it seem more suspicious to not have a vibrant social media life?
I’m not all that tech savvy. But I’m not thinking it would be that hard to track down someone who is careless enough. A number of posters have had their identities exposed through the years just by using their username and google.
I once read a tale of woe on reddit from a guy who was fired because the porn searches he did at home on his Google Chrome account were (unbeknownst to him) synched up with the Google Chrome on his work computer, creating the appearance that he’d done the viewing while on the clock. (I’m not sure I got the details 100% correct. Like I said, I’m not all that tech savvy). I’m sure his message board, Facebook, and Twitter history was accessible to his employer through the same means.
ETA: I replaced “idiotic” with careless. I’ve posted enough information about myself that my employer would have little problem identifying me here. So I’ve been careless. But I don’t consider myself an idiot. 
I used to work with a woman who, when she was brand new to Facebook, was posting things like “I hate my boss!”, not realizing that just because it’s password protected, that doesn’t mean that any old person can’t read it. :smack: Sure enough, someone else pulled up her posts, printed them out, and showed them to said boss.
She kept her job, but was told not to do anything like that again.
Just this afternoon, I clicked on someone’s Facebook page because he had posted a number of items in a local “for sale” group that just seemed very, very off for a 19-year-old kid to own in the first place. Over the course of about 3 hours today, he had posted that he is on probation, and that he was spending his day productively - getting a shower, cleaning his room, drinking heavily, and getting stoned. (Note: Two of these things are illegal for a 19-year-old, regardless of his probation status, but they are most assuredly a violation of the terms of his probation!)
I wouldn’t care one way or the other - one more stoned teenager really doesn’t bother me - but I wonder whether he’s selling other people’s stuff. (Over the course of 2 hours this evening, he had listed for sale: two televisions, various tools and a toolbox, a GPS in the box, a pearl necklace in the box, two diamond rings, a desktop computer, an Apple iPad Mini, etc.) There’s a somewhat good chance that a cop wondered why I was poking around on this kid’s page, spotted the same things that raised my suspicions, and contacted another cop in that county to see whether certain fairly-identifiable items had been reported stolen recently.
A kid his age has lived in Social-Media-Land for most of his brief life, but apparently, some of them don’t know anything about privacy settings. Even if items aren’t stolen, he’s certainly at risk of spending some time in jail, or maybe prison, for violating the terms of his probation and posting that information all over Facebook!
Ummm…
Not to be pushy, but…
Q stands:
Are these people opening accounts using the exact info on their driver’s licenses?
Are they at least making the cops (and their boss) do a bit of digging?
Next:
Are employers now demanding access to your FB, Twitter, whatever, account as a requirement for APPLYING for employment - not just after?
Does the McDonalds application now require name, address, facebook id, twitter id, and maybe your physical address?
I’m acquainted with Adam Orth who was fired from Microsoft for some impolitic tweets about XBox.
Based on comments I see on friend’s Facebook/Twitter they are using their real names. Plus for a lot of people their social media network includes people at work, which as things propagate means someone in a position of authority probably sees it without going out to look.
And the type of comment I see most often is stuff like “It’d really nice to work some place that doesn’t do this stupid thing.” or “What kind of boss tells his staff to X”
Simple common sense is not in effect for a lot of people. I gauge my comments accordingly to where I am. This is where I am most open, under a psuedonym and yet I would still never post bad things about my work, or racial or ethnic or sexual slurs. G+ has my real name attached to it and everything I post there is extremely light hearted.
That lady be crazy though. A ghetto culture?
I just got back from there, and not only did I not experience any ghetto culture, nobody even offered to show it to us. So typical of the ghetto!
I know someone who worked for a public agency as head of social media. Her entire job was to manage social media for the agency.
She was fired for making an inopportune tweet about how everyone at the agency leaves early all summer to golf and was fired.