Note to self: Don’t ‘friend’ your boss on FB and then bitch about your job.

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

My boss is a rigid, demanding and perfectionist asshole. 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?

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.

OWNED

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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.

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Regardless of what the girl said the way the boss handled the situation was completely unproffesional and under some scrutiny as well.

lol, true. I never add profs, principals, and the likes on social networking sites, despite my classmates’ innate tendency to do so

Hope you don’t mind if I link this to my blog post? It’s perfect to illustrate a whine I’m having .. saves me typing it up ;)

Ya know, that’s why some people have professional and personal FB pages. Other than that, it’s important to keep in mind who is going to be reading your posts. That also goes for LEAVING a job, ie quitting and then posting about it on FB. I didn’t post about it, but one of my friends posted on my wall, and I had to do some smoothing to ensure future references would be given

Thanks you for your sharing !!!!
I have just a facebooking for me but I didn’t post anything in it

I’m the anonymous one.

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.

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.

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.

“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 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.

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

I like all these people calling the boss unprofessional…his employee had just called him a “perrvy wanker” and stated that she “hates her job” and that he is always making her do “shit stuff.” Clearly she was inept at her job, too stupid to realize that her boss was gay, and that she'd added him. She was on a trial basis, so he could fire her via text message if he wanted to. Is he supposed to read that and go, “oh, I need to be professional and fire her tomorrow” Absolutely not, he fired her ass right on the spot, over facebook. I wouldn't want some tart who thinks i'm a perv, sucks at her job, and hates it to come in one day further either. You people saying the boss was unprofessional are retarded.