Can Social Media Posts Get You Discharged From Your Job?

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Can Social Media Posts Get You Discharged From Your Job?
It's simply human nature to suffer slips of the tongue. When it comes to social media, your employer may not be so understanding.

Consider the time it takes a believed to make its way from grey matter, through the fingers, and past the send button. Regardless of that temporal expanse, social media scribes typically end up the lights or simply neglect the possibility their nuggets might reach further into cyber space than the narrow audience defined by their social media settings.

Let's consider some cases where employees learned by hand that employers are enjoying what you say in social media.

From the annals of "What Were They Thinking".

There's the case of Justine Sacco, a public relations executive with IAC-- a substantial media and internet company responsible for sites like Vimeo, About.com, Ask.com, and Match.com, to name a few. Seems Ms. Sacco may have gotten a bit too "excited" just before boarding her flight when she tweeted, "Going to Africa. Before her plane even touched down, Ms. Sacco's insensitive tweet had gone viral and she was ... well saccoed.

Out of Texas there's the case of a waitress whose Facebook post about bad tippers didn't need to go beyond her circle of pals to cost her a job. Her next mistake was forgetting the "A ** hole" customer was one of her Facebook pals who without delay showed the unkind post to the restaurant manager where she worked.

While hockey's terrible track record can not be denied, a Canadian instructor learned there's no store for Nazism in Vancouver's youth hockey leagues. Christopher Maximilian Sandau, an instructor of 6-9 year olds, displayed Nazi propaganda and graphics on his Facebook page of Adolph Hitler with the message, "Adolf Hitler: The Greatest Story Never Told," and a swastika flag with the message: "If this flag offends you, you need a past lesson".

Needless to say, dangers will certainly get you observed ... and possibly discharged; especially if you're in law enforcement. In Ohio, a parole officer making a danger to "shoot them all" on Facebook wound up going through a series of psychological exams to determine her fitness for the job.

Chalk up to just plain stupidity the case of the cook who posted topless pictures of himself on top of the grill at the Chili's restaurant where he worked. While he may have thought his positions worthy of the "Attractive Cooks of Chili's" calendar, his bare-chested, tattoo loaded, nipple pierced photos received a chilly response from state health department officials and his employer.

Just before going to press, comes this jewel. An affirmative action officer responsible for checking out problems of job discrimination in a Long Island, New York jail, shared these tidbits on his Facebook page: "Police are secured by a system of white supremacy"; "Dis not your country pale face" and "Racist NYPD CRACKERS".

Please Think Before You Post.

In Shakespeare's Henry IV, Component I, acting to be dead on the combat zone, Falstaff justifies, "The bulk of Valor, is Discernment; in the which bulk, I have actually conserved my life".

While playing dead in social media beats its actual function, the afraid Falstaff does educate that care, in the warmth of fight, may occasionally economize.

Before you send off that next post, tweet, photo or share, take a minute to consider what you're stating and who might hear it.


There's the case of Justine Sacco, a public relations executive with IAC-- a substantial media and internet company responsible for sites like Vimeo, About.com, Ask.com, and Match.com, to name a few. Out of Texas there's the case of a waitress whose Facebook post about bad tippers didn't need to go beyond her circle of pals to cost her a job. Her next mistake was forgetting the "A ** hole" customer was one of her Facebook pals who without delay showed the unkind post to the restaurant manager where she worked. In Ohio, a parole officer making a danger to "shoot them all" on Facebook wound up going through a series of psychological exams to determine her fitness for the job. An affirmative action officer responsible for checking out problems of job discrimination in a Long Island, New York jail, shared these tidbits on his Facebook page: "Police are secured by a system of white supremacy"; "Dis not your country pale face" and "Racist NYPD CRACKERS".