It’s not an easy task to find a decent job even with those big bunches of university degrees and high grades earned in school. But it’s always easy to lose it, you don’t need to “crossed finger” your luck. Either date with your boss’s private secretary in nearest coffee shop, watch YouTube while in office or update your Facebook status. Yup! You might know or not but your one facebook update can make you sit home answering those interview questions by a local journalist wish to run your story on cover. “Fired from Job because of facebook status update”
Look down to all these popular cases of loosing job now a lesson to millions of facebook users.
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Case 1
This girl did two silly mistakes, one she added her boss in her friend’s list and two she wrote straight abusive words about her job and her boss. So, what could be the result? she was informed by her boss on that same status where she wrote sobbing experience with her job/boss. She got fired…straightly!
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Case2
One British Transport Police got a fluky offer to work with Bedfordshire police. But he never thought that his employer will decide to run a background check on his facebook profile which unfortunately banged this policeman’s career. His employer noticed how he showed off his gay lifestyle openly on social networking site. Result…he lost his job!
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Case 3
This case is of a school teacher who loves to have happy times outside her professional life, so what’s wrong with that? She did one mistake, she disclosed her vacation photos drinking alcohol on her facebook profile which made her superiors not so happy and they ask her to resign.
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Case 4:
In one survey it came out that 70% of people in the world are not happy with their jobs, whatever the reason, but if you want to propagate your job dissatisfaction hold back! don’t you dare write it on facebook wall. This 16 yr old wrote it on her status update not once but twice and finally ended with a story “Teen Office Worker Sacked….
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Case 5:
This story is not about an individual losing a job but a whole bunch of employees involved in a facebook group they made with their company’s name and got sacked for their involvement on discussion forums . Lesson taught; don’t make a company’s group or colleague’s page without your senior’s written permission.
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Case 6:
When the HR department of a child care facility in Sweden checked one of their teacher’s facebook profiles they discovered a photo of him with a hat. So, is that the whole crap? No, he was wearing a hat with a graphic of a porn star on it. Finally it was his last day on job.
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Case7:
A woman was on off while sick. Sick doesn’t mean to be on bed whole day. Probably, she thought that and logged on to facebook. That was her biggest mistake and she lost her job for breaking trust with her employers. She was caught not by her boss but one of her colleague in her friend list. Lesson here: Beware of your colleagues on facebook.
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Case 8:
13 Employees of Virgin Airlines crew were fired because of insulting virgin airline passengers on the company’s facebook group. Calling them with slangs and having fun which finally cost their jobs.
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Are you the next one?. for sure you don’t want to be in this list making news in several news papers and getting famous over night, then be careful while posting or publishing status messages and photos on facebook.
Take these top 10 points in notice and save your job
- Don’t add your bosses in your facebook network
- Don’t add colleagues who is not so good with you
- Don’t post anything good or bad about your job, company, boss or any colleague.
- Don’t post pictures which are consider to be very private.
- Don’t write about your past, if it was bad. We all have bad pasts.
- Use facebook privacy settings always.
- Don’t write anything, just anything.
- If you are a student today, tomorrow you will be on job, facebook will prove your character and HRs love Facebook.
- Avoid comments containing, nudity, abuse, controversies, religious remarks, insults or bashing with F**** languages.
- Respect your company’s policies and save your job.
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Zaheerbhai,
This was very help-full article.Appreciate your concern for friends.
Thank Firoz bhai for comment. Social networking is no more a fun. If not used carefully such websites can become a nightmare.
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