Be careful with social networking
July 26, 2011 by admin
Filed under Lingerie Events
The world is changing. Just the other day, I watched the movie of how Facebook started. Facebook, Twitter and many other social networking sites are easy distractions both at home and on the job. In the last few years, employees in many industries have been fired for communication errors.
We all need to be cognizant of what can get us in a heap of trouble. Here are a few examples of employees who have been fired for expressing themselves on these sites:
» A teenager on her first day of work posted, “First day at work. Oh my God. So dull. All I do is shred and scan paper.” Her boss friended her, saw what she posted and she no longer had a job. Why keep someone who is so unhappy with the job?
The teen should have kept her negative thoughts to herself.
» An employee called in sick and posted “sick day” on her page. She was on the computer all day. Her boss, who felt she was well enough to sit in front of her work computer if she could sit in front of her home computer, fired her. Personally, I think that’s unfair.
» A nursing home employee loved the patients she worked with. She took photos with them and posted them on her Facebook page, which violated the nursing home’s privacy policy and HIPAA.
She was fired. In this case, she just wasn’t thinking. If the nursing home had known, and if each patient or their family member had signed a consent form, then perhaps she would have been OK.
» A professor at a college in Pennsylvania asked, “Does anyone know where I can find a hit man? It’s been that kind of day.”
She was just kidding; however, the college felt it was inappropriate after the various school shootings.
Just one little wrong statement will get you fired.
» A person who worked at two jobs posted something like, “Ugh, here I go to this (expletive) place. Wish I could go home.” They weren’t fired, but reprimanded.
» I know three people who posted photos of them drinking at an Ocean City bar and dancing with people in a suggestive manner.
They posted a comment that said, “We play hooky tomorrow!” The next day the three hooky players were contacted by their boss and asked to play hooky forever.
The list goes on and on. The bottom line is that we all need to watch what we say.
In this world, where everything is recorded online, don’t be seen as a gossip or troublemaker. And keep your opinions to yourself.
Bonnie Burke is a co-owner of Shore Staffing Inc., a temporary and permanent staffing firm on Delmarva. Send questions to bburke@shorestaffing.com, reach her at 410-957-2800 or visit www.shorestaffing.com.
