Another in the "Be Careful What You Post Online" series
The post appears to be on Facebook. A worker disses the boss apparently failing to remember having added said boss as a "friend."
Now we know the answer to the question, "Can you be fired online?" -- it is "yes."
Pathetic, bizarre, and very funny. Also contains some bad language (PG-13 at least; maybe higher).
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No explanation for STUPID.
No explanation for STUPID.
No one gets points for grace
No one gets points for grace or professionalism in that situation. The employee's outburst was unacceptable. The manager's behavior was worse. The manager's choice to fire said employee was reasonable, but to do so publicly was humiliating to the employee, did not present the manager in a good light, did damage to the company's employment brand and could open the company to litigation. At the very least the manager needs basic management training and be subject to disciplinary action.
nada lulic, sphr * hr manager * nada.lulic@swinc.com
I see variants of the
I see variants of the initial outburst happen periodically on Facebook...and each time I remind the person via comment that others are watching. The manager's reaction, as Nada said above, should have been offline. Just as the employee's comment is public, so is the boss's....now and forever more.
Pathetic because both these
Pathetic because both these people are obviously unqualified to perform in a corporate environment and should lose their jobs. Bizarre because the entire exchange took place in a public forum in anger and with very bad language. Very funny because we laugh at such human foibles.
Perhaps social media is now an "evolutionary force" in selection of the fittest ;~)
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Neither Darwin nor the
Neither Darwin nor the Founding Fathers ever contemplated anything like the Internet.
Darwin never contemplated
Darwin never contemplated the Internet, but he still had a cure for it.
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Expecting the non-survival of the non-fittest
Darwin: Survival of the
Darwin: Survival of the fittest. But the Founding Fathers never considered the public forum of the Internet along with its wealth of information as well as its mis-dis or partial information.
Nice. Keep in mind that
Nice.
Keep in mind that those Facebook comments are semi-public.
Because they are written (duh), the poster likely libeled her boss, depending on their county's laws. (It appears that the two parties are in UK--or AU or NZ, etc.--not US.)
The boss should have refrained from using profane language. Describing the employee's job performance online may have been a response in like kind--perhaps--libeling the employee--and is certainly unprofessional. I doubt this did any harm to the company's brand, and speculate that it's not a particularly professional environment to begin with.
If I were the boss's employer, I might give the boss a private verbal reprimand for the language, but otherwise find the action appropriate.
- John