priceless stuff. Lets hope she read the reply before going into work :p

The boss is right!

She deserves it :) You can ask for this stuff if you're so open on the internet.

At least be a man and say it face to face, boss is a wanker, and if somebody says something like that you should ask why she does that or why she feels that way. And offcourse then fire here for making an ass of you in public.

Jup, he's right.
If it's possible to track the company they're working for... he can even file a claim against her.

Why do people think that social media is safe and private? Strange development!

And off course, the boss is right ;-)

The boss is _ALWAYS_ right.

The boss is unprofessional. The way he handled it was incredibly damaging. I don't think his reputation was helped at all. She should not have posted that in her facebook but he should have confronted her at work. I think he should be embarrassed.

I don't think the boss is unprofessional at all. Nor do i think he hurt his reputation either. You just say it's damaging because the boss said f**k once. His response was very straight forward and honest. And to be able to make that response which was so many levels of maturity higher than his new ex-employee...i guarantee he is not embarrassed either (especially given it's not an embarrassing response to his ex-employee).

I doubt that he damaged his reputation either. You're thinking of the boss under your assumption of thinking that he's a perfect do-goody angel 24/7, and to have made the response the way he did under your assumption would be embarrassing and reputation damaging.

But, this is the real world. The boss is not a perfect do-goody 24/7 angel just like everyone else on the planet isn't either. He was clever and beat the girl at her own social networking game. He also gave her a great response of telling her she was fired, why she was fired, and that when she's at work she's there to work. The boss made sure that this counted. The girl was a bad employee, stupid as hell, and is lazy. She got what she had coming to her when she added her boss to her friends list.

Hooray for social networking sites!
lol stupid twat..

I think the boss is in the right. If he was really being a pervy bastard, then she should have gone to the proper channels, not bitched like a whiny little kid on facebook. Stupid tart.

This what happens when dumbsh*ts like this mistake Facebook for their sooper-sekret diary.

I sense much Fail in the Force with that one.

And the boss earns an internet for the sheer epic ownage of that post.

Too internetty. Talk to normal people for a bit then you are welcome to come back and post again.

fake.

Agree. Stinks of fake.

Agree

Evidently he thought his reply was clever and enjoyed embarrassing her but actually aside from being completely and utterly unprofessional anyone is entitle to moan about their job, he was merely unfortunate enough to hear it and he is no grounds to fire her exercising her right to give her opinion on her job as much he doesn't like it. The correct approach would have been to speak in person and offer her resignation.

Calling your boss a "WANKER!" is not grounds for dismissal.

What planet do you live on?

It was unprofessional for him to respond in kind but it is unquestionable grounds for dismissal.

During your first 6 months (probation period) even if you don't smell nice or you have a horrid accent you can get fired. You can get fired for any grounds what so ever. That's why they're called "probation". After the six months are over you start getting rights.

Heh, consider yourself lucky. I live in a "Right to work" state. They can fire you at any time, with no probably cause. Even if you've been with the company for 15 years and gave devoted service. You could slip up once and poof, your gone. And that's with every job here. In my state, there is no such thing as rights.

Olias, you live in Kansas too?

I'm glad I'm an employer and not an employee! I'd have fired her ass too.

She's not obliged to like him that's not part of her job description and indeed she's perfectly entitled to think he's a wanker whether unfounded or otherwise. She did not directly address him as as such. She posted her thoughts on FB completely outside the work environment. Like I said had the boss not been her friend and not heard, would you consider that grounds to fire someone? If not then your saying only because he saw it and took offence is sufficient to fire her. It's nonsense.

"She’s not obliged to like him that’s not part of her job description and indeed she’s perfectly entitled to think he’s a wanker whether unfounded or otherwise".

Correct.

She is also entitled to publish her thoughts for all too see but that doesn't mean she's immune to the consequences.

It is far from nonsense. It makes complete sense. She was disrespectful to her superior. It makes not one bit of difference if she was outside the work environment.

If you're going to do such a thing you better be damn sure it can't get back to your employers and if it does make sure they can't prove it.

Publishing your thoughts on the Internet makes doing either quite problematic.

I think you'll find that yes, it is grounds for dismissal. Most jobs now when you start will have somewhere written on an application, or somewhere else you have to put your name to that it is against company policy to talk on any social site in a derogatory way about the company or it's employees. It's just a fact of life these days that ppl want to slag off the place they work at, and the company is protectibg itself

somebody is very very stupid, I don't see how you could do that, I always think intensly about who-ever I'm adding and what they'll see, on both Facebook and Last.Fm, foool, I wouldn't be stupid enough to do that, haha, she deserved it!


and maybe the boss was abit unprofessional too

While I appreciate the comments above that the boss should not have given tit for tat, the woman was on a trial basis, so if he wanted to do an instant dismissal via Facebook, he was within his rights. The reason I don’t get on my high horse about this is I probably would have an outburst like that myself if I saw that on Facebook!

The boss is in the right. You don't talk shit about your boss and not expect repercussions. WTF are some of you retarded?

Although I personally would have played it cool. I would have just let it slide and made the bitches life a living hell at work dumping all kinds of work loads on her until she cried or quit. Even if it was the former doesn't mean I would have let up, lol.

Social media only makes transparent who people already are. And, often, quickly.

Love it! I've fired people before, but never through Facebook. Hilarious response from the boss - I'm completely on his side. Clearly the woman isn't terribly bright and he's probably cut her some slack on the job...until she calls him a pervy wanker on her FB page.

My boss is a rigid, demanding and perfectionist asshole. I work for myself. Oops.

My boss has touched me inappropriately on multiple occasions. I work for myself. Oops.

Does anyone else notice that the backing of the text is grey, not the same colour as the actual background?

Fake or not?

That's because of the horrible jpeg compression of the image. It's just "noise."

HAHAHAHAHA That has to be the biggest bitch slap in the face, to get fired over myspace.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!

How stupid are you? Doesn't she realize OTHER PEOPLE SEE THAT.

Don't the consequences of inbreeding outweigh the pleasure!? You get people like that!

There are some really interesting comments and feedback here. I'm guided by Judge Judy's advice (I really love her 'grains of wisdom') - '...Don't put anything 'out there' (meaning internet/cyberspace) that you do not want someone to read because once it's out there is permanent...'. AND since I've heard prospective employers also look at social networks, such as facebook, perhaps it's wise to be demure in your communications.

100% agree with the boss in this situation.

If you think about it, if she has added her BOSS to her FB friends, then there is a really good chance the majority of her co-workers are on there as well. This just seems like the kind of girl that adds everybody she knows.

And if she was undermining this guy's authority to other coworkers... yeah, deserved.

The girl was really in the wrong on this one totally. First off, she calls her boss a "total pervvy wanker". The next thing is her bosse's reply back to her with the first mentioning of the fact that she shouldn't flatter herself, that he's gay, it's not a secret, and that in over 5 months of working for him she hasn't figured it out.

No one else is picking up on this part of their commenting on facebook. The girl is pretty dumb to add her boss to her facebook account as a friend, she's an idiot for disrespecting him on there during her work probation period, she's too lazy to do a good job, and she's especially retarded for not working out the thought processes in her head to figure out that he's gay.

She can't do a good job because she's lazy and hates her job, she's not only stupid but socially retarded because of the fact that she added her boss (i bet she added a whole bunch of coworkers she also doesn't socialize with at work) to her facebook account, and she's just plain old got no gaydar because all of her coworkers know that their boss is gay of which she thinks he keeps making advances toward her enough to call him a "pervvy wanker" and he tells her not to flatter herself and lets her know that everyone else at the job knows he's gay and she didn't.

Am not surprised she got fired at all. In the future she'll probably be a supermarket bagger that sucks at bagging just wondering why a photographer hasn't noticed her beauty yet so she can achieve her dream of a being a high paid model without doing anything herself to achieve this dream and wont be able to work out that the 5 lesbians at the supermarket actually are making advances toward her and would love to sleep with her.

This isn't that surprising. A coworker of mine almost got fired for doing something similar on facebook. He added a bunch of the supervisors & big bosses as friends, then complained about his job & how much he thought it sucked.

What I don't like though is that this is something she said on her own time. I understand that she's still being disrespectful, but I just don't like the fact that now our thoughts & words can be policed via the internet & be fired because we just don't like someone or because we feel like complaining a little about our job. If we're posting company secrets or posting something incredibly horrible, then I can see that affecting you work-wise, but we shouldn't have to give up our freedom of speech outside of the workplace just because someone might be listening & report it back to the big boss (or that the boss might be watching).

There's a huge difference between "complaining a little" about a job and calling your boss a "pervvy wanker".

And: There's no "policing" of your thoughts & words. But if you walked up to your boss at work and told him "dude I hate working here and you suck pretty badly, too" you'd most likely be canned immediately.

But sure, it's probably a problem that using Facebook and Twitter requires people to use their brain. Not everybody is capable of that.

1. Bringing the company into disrepute, whether at work or in your own time.
2. Libelling the company with false accusations of sexual harrassment. Publishing a statement that her boss is a 'perv' isn't just unprofessional, it's illegal.

Either of those is gross misconduct and perfectly good grounds for immediate dismissal, and she's lucky she her boss isn't in fact a 'wanker', because if he was he'd probably sue her as well.

Almost at 1000 retweets. pretty cool...

strange, so i'm apparently logged in - but can't access admin

Hey Zee, could you try again now? Let me know on FF if it works...

They were both wrong in what they did, but the employee should have known better.

Wow, that girl just made an ass of herself. The boss is completely right in this case. Sure she has the right to free speech, but last I checked, speech is not covered under the Civil Rights Act.

MORALE: Don't post things about your boss that you don't want him to see, else it WILL eventually come back to bite you in the butt.

I dont think it should really be a problem she has freedom of speech and he shouldnt be able to fire her for something she did at home. Who cares how or what she said ,I BET everyone has done it . Just some dont post it. THE BOSS shouldnt be on her facebook anyway.

OWNED

Some people eh. Do they ever stop and think first.

Thanks you for you said

Now a story came out yesterday that some girl changed her status to OMG I HATE MY JOB.
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My boss "friended" me on FB when I began my job. I didn't want her FB friendship but thought it would be a poor move not to accept. I accepted and kept receiving all the crap updates about each time her boys danced naked in the kitchen or played Wii. I like to think CYA, keep her your manager and not your friend. But, the 2 social butterflies are doing really well. I am not as social, have paid the price at work, and have been defriended.

We may be older but work is still like high school. The manager is just the bitch cheerleader or QB - regardless of looks. Word of advice, pretend your athletic and play a team sport. Marathoners never win at work. I'm a slow learner.

Good that he sacked her... cuz she is stupid.