A woman in my company got peeved that a supervisor put her on an extra project that would cut into her personal time/appointments so she posted something extremely nasty about that supervisor. I ended up with the project, not her and was promoted very quickly. The supervisor didn’t punish her for the post, and said Supervisor ended up leaving the company not long after for unrelated reasons.
4 months later she was up for promotion and another Supervisor brought up the Post and how disrespectful and uncooperative this woman was, and how her FB posts showed a lack of maturity and respect of the Company as a whole. She didn’t get the promotion and she’s no longer with that company. Not saying it ruined her life. I’m sure she moved on to somewhere better where she could start over with a clean slate, but it shows how quick you can be judged by others and how it can effect you down the line
I can’t remember the details now, but we had a poster here who kept talking about how she was cheating on her husband, who was IIRC a police officer. Someone eventually pointed out to her that she’d provided enough information that it was easy to find out her real name, pictures of her family, etc., just through Google. I think she wound up being banned.
I know any number of people who I think have hurt their careers and are totally oblivious to it. Not because of any one dramatic incident, but a slow chipping away of respect because they made public a persona that was significantly more sexual, or more emotionally petty/dramatic, or was more politically radical than what they present at work. There’s a reason we tamp those things down at work.
Someone on another website was talking about how her ex-husband was about to go on trial for raping their daughter :eek: and it appeared to be a totally open and shut case because there was a mountain of medical evidence. This woman had posted numerous pictures of her daughter on this site (whose name was uncommon enough in itself to identify her) and in addition, her profile included the name of the town where they lived, and links to her Facebook and Twitter pages - in other words, her real name.
Any suggestions that this was not a good idea got shot down. :rolleyes:
A fellow teacher (American in Korea) disappeared quite suddenly, and e-mailed the rest of us begging for cash and job leads. I sent him a couple of the latter.
Out of curiosity, I went back and checked his Facebook page. We weren’t FB friends and really, I barely knew the guy. Astonishingly, the page was public. Going back two months, all his posts were “I hate my job” alternating with “I love to get drunk.” Suddenly, it was “They want to fire me for drinking! Oh my God!” He went to another city, found a job and changed the privacy settings on his FB account and that’s the last I heard about him.
For those that don’t want to follow the link: a U of Kansas journalism professor has been put on leave (I doubt he’ll lose his job) because he tweeted a pro-gun-control message in the aftermath of the Navy Yard killings, a tweet which implied a desire for harm on NRA members and which invoked God.
Not to get political in this thread…but the issue here is more about conservative Kansas state legislators looking for reasons to defund higher education. As for the tweet and the professor’s job: yes, he’s free to express his mind, but his contract does stipulate that he do so in public fora in a civil manner, and he did cross some kind if line there.
And, as with several other examples in this thread, he had a previous history of job-related incidents, including one within the academic department (details unknown) for which he was sanctioned.
This guy.He loved COD and wanted nothing more to be a fighter pilot. He worked hard to attain his dream, and was well on his way there. A lapse of judgement and the desire for quick cash led him to do upload videos of himself partaking in a particular activity that cost him all that.
Oh dear Lord, this guy was a former roommate! It was a long, long, time ago, but reading that was a bit…shocking I guess? Doing some searching he seems to be doing okay with his restaurant. Was this big news at the time? Seems like exposing yourself in NYC wouldn’t get too much attention.
I remember hearing about it in the news. One reason it got so much traction was because he was on the subway jacking off while looking at a woman, rather than be intimidated, she took a picture went to the cops and when they didn’t really do much, she went to the NY Post who ran the pic in their paper with a typical NY Post headline. It struck a chord with people because so many women were sick of this kind of shit and they were doing something about it.
The chef had been arrested for similar behaviour before, he definitely has a compulsion. If I ever ate at his place, I’d stay away from the cream based sauces.
Come on—it was more than just a pro-gun control message, and it did more than just imply a desire for harm on NRA members. Spoilered for offensiveness:
Who would have guessed in 1995 that the stuff you posted to Usenet would still exist in 2013?
Fortunately, most of my early internet musings are in the form of Magic: the Gathering card ideas, ASCII art and a couple tame quasi-academic comparisons (given the group alt.barney.dinosaur.die.die.die) between Barney & Friends and other PBS children’s programming.
I was laid off for 18 months before getting a new job. About a week into it, I sent out an email to a bunch of people making dumb jokes about the new job and the new boss. Most of the recipients were at my old job.
Somehow, my email ended up with an HR manager at my old job. Since I mentioned my new employer by name, this HR person found the name of the HR manager at my new job and forwarded it to her. I was fired the next day, after just over a week on the job.
It took two more years to get another job (just got hired in July). I am digging out of a mountain of debt, and still facing a foreclosure lawsuit, though I have hopes to settle it and keep my home since I have sufficient income to resume mortgage payments.
What a tough lesson to learn. I’m sorry that that happened to you.
Another lesson here is that HR people talk to each other and share data. A former co-worked once contacted me because he had applied for a job at the place where I was working. This dude was a serious disaster so I went to the HR recruiter and warned him not to hire the guy. The recruiter entered the name in a data base and said, “Oh yeah, I have information on him. No way he gets hired here.”