Via the Thinkhammer blog and the I’m Not Really A Geek blog, this great little cautionary tale / wake-up call for people who don’t quite grasp that EVERYTHING they post on the internet is 100% public.
If you aren’t familiar with this story yet, let me set it up for you:
1. Dude gets job with Cisco.
2. Dude posts less than enthused opinion about the Cisco job on Twitter (actually naming Cisco as his new employer).
3. Cisco employee on Twitter spots the post and promptly responds.
4. Dude blocks his Twitter updates (hides them from public view)… but it’s too late. The damage is done, and he probably spends most of the day wondering if Cisco will now rethink its job offer.
Check this out:
And the response by the Cisco guy:
Ouch. @theconnor probably didn’t expect that, did he?
But the question is… What did he expect? That a comment posted on a public stream in the fastest growing social media “channel” on the planet, one currently used by 2,000,000 people and feeding into other services like Facebook and MySpace would go unnoticed?
Just because your boss, coworker, spouse or neighbor doesn’t know about Twitter, doesn’t read blogs and refuses to join FaceBook doesn’t mean your comments on the web won’t get back to him/her.
What you post on the internet today may not come back to haunt you tomorrow, but it definitely will someday. Everything on the web is archivable, which means it is also searchable. Comments you make today will be popping up in searches ten years from now.
What does this all mean? Simple: Everything you say/write can and will be used against you in the court of public opinion someday, somehow. Your behavior on the web can cost you a new job, a promotion, your career, your marriage, your friendships, endorsements, and even take you out of contention for college scholarships, military/law enforcement service, or public office.
So please, please, PLEASE, for your own sake THINK about what you are about to post to the web (especially blogs, social networking sites and Twitter). Before you click “send,” “publish” or “update,” assume that everyone you know will read your comment. And by everyone, I mean your boss, coworkers, parents, grandparents, exes, recruiters, future employers, and yes, even your kids (even if you don’t have any yet).
Use your brains. The internet is a very public place. More so even than the water cooler. Exercise the same common sense and decorum you would in “real life” social situations.
Have a great Thursday. 🙂
Update: Based on the comments I have received over the weekend, it seems that @theconnor may have actually been a woman, not a “dude.” That information was not available to me when I published this post. Thanks for letting me know.
Update #2: I am not sure that this is actually written by the real @theconnor or pointed to by the real Tim Levad, but it’s a good post and a nice way to continue the conversation on this topic. Click here.
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Well lose job in 140 charaters or less is perfect for awareness
“ust because your boss, coworker, spouse or neighbor doesn’t know about Twitter, doesn’t read blogs and refuses to join FaceBook doesn’t mean your comments on the web won’t get back to him/her.”
as this make lot of sense
Yes I agree with you my dear, now a days social networking is very much popular & excessive to any one, so it have been cause of your promotion asa well as termination. Sp be careful.
Samuel Peterson from Job Listing
SO, so true. The guy was obviously not deserving of a fat paycheck because he’s not aware of the power of social media. Great post.
I call the internet BBW …big brother is watching……..
I wonder if he’s still going to be getting that fat paycheck.
at least as far as my two month experiment has been showing, even deleted accounts (whether on purpose or forced via twitter) still retain their posts/messages when u search in google for any contained keywords……
hopefully this doesn’t turn into just one giant spam tool for taking over SERP results via massive tweet armies… 🙂
This so true what ever is said always gets back in the end
On the point about archives I have wondered how much of the planets resources will go into storing the profiles and twittering of us all.
What are the storage requirements of Google, Facebook and Utube going to be in 5, 10 or 20 years. Lets hope that technology comes to the rescue or well will be burning resources to save this blog comment in 30 years.
CRACK
No one will even remember his name
No real friends to mourn him now
That’s the way it is when you die in shame
Crack ! Heroin ! Cocaine !
Don’t put that poison I your vein
It will only drive you insane !
How many more will die in disgrace ?
Fated to die in shame
Wondering around lost in space
Crack ! Heroin ! Cocaine !
Don’t put that poison in your vein
It will only drive you insane !
Just another victim of smack ! or crack !
Found dead with a needle in his vein
Now he aint ever coming back !
Crack ! Heroin ! Cocaine !
Don’t put that poison in you vein
It will only drive you insane !
He now stands at heavens door
A lesson for all who remain !
Just another victim in this deadly drug war
Crack ! Heroin ! Cocaine !
Don’t put that poison in your vein
It will only drive you insane !
You don’t have to go the same way
Don’t be led by so called friends into drugs shame
More will die day after day !
Crack ! Heroin ! Cocaine !
Don’t put that poison in your vein
It will only drive you insane !
Read then understand my words
Then spread the message you have heard
Drugs aren’t welcome whatever their name
Crack ! Heroin ! Cocaine !
Don’t put that poison in your vein
It will only drive you INSANE .
DAVID BRIAN GOODWIN
Seems that he forgot the old e-mail rule: “If you don’t want to read it in the paper, or have your Mom find out, don’t put it in an e-mail.”
This is a Great lesson for those who are beginning to use Social Media in the workplace. There are a lot of gray areas as well.
Social Media policy will be important.
Thanks for the great comments. 🙂
Dave, you are completely friggin’ nuts. I love it. 😀
Wow, dude that is just way too funny!
RT
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I’ve seen this situation unfold before. Its very common, and sometimes it’s miscontrued.
Obviously theconnor wasn’t saying this jokingly but often statements like these are. The problem I think is the difficulty in gauging emotion online.
just so you all know, that was actually a girl. and she has wrote a interesting blog article about it.
When I first started taking computer courses in 1978, one of the first things a good instructor told us was to NEVER put anything on a computer that you don’t want EVERYONE to know. That was over 30 years ago. More true now than ever.
Fuck Twitter, Web2 and the generation Y-er.
You all desserve the shite that’s fallin upon your righteous heads.
GET A LIFE!
Gotta love idiots that use their real identities on the web. =)
Absolutely sound advice, and something everyone needs reminding of now & again. Nothing is sacred once you publish it online – and the consequences can be quite damaging.
timmylevad strikes me as a tool!
This is such a sad reality. Sure, if you post/comment/twitter something yourself that bites you in the end you only have yourself to blame. But what about others? We live in an era in which everyone is an aspiring paparazzi with a camera in their cell phone.
I work at a school in the IT department, and though I’m only 26 when I’m in a social situation I act twice my age because I know inevitably a student is going to “catch me in the act of being young” via a picture that a friend of a friend of a relative posted on their MySpace or Facebook. This happened to me once before (a friend posted a picture of us drinking, all completely legal and of-age), and I nearly lost my job over it.
Yes, the individual who posted this Twitter should have known better, but its a shame many employers can’t accept the fact that their employees are still human beings with lives outside of their jobs. And yes, some human beings don’t like their jobs… but they still arrive on time daily and perform exceptionally 🙂
I think of it as evolution in action, a “weeding out” of those less capable of self-governance. And if in the end, these people fall to secure “fatty paychecks” in the private sector, or are unable to find government employment or have a political career, I would posit that society and the economy are all better off in the long run.
You mean “Away from Keyboard” everything happens “in real life” 🙂
I wouldn’t call that quite termination-worthy (though it’s certainly embarrassing), unless the fact that the blogs have picked up on it makes it worse. But of course, I’m not the hiring manager …
It’s nice that timmylevad (and by extension Cisco) is versed in the web … but what about the question mark?
the tweep who pimped him out is a ********
Newbie users not only misuse Twitter to their own personal detriment by being unintelligent / unconscious with their tweets but they could harm a company’s brand rep. if are acting as the company on Twitter inadvertently. For example, are your csrs on Twitter chatting with friends when they should be providing customer service to customers in whichever appropriate channel? It’s got to start with a company policy on how to/ how not to access and use the Internet and its tools – for business or personal use.
Actually, Oliver Blanchard, if you actually researched the user instead of reading the regurgitating what you’ve already read on the internet, you’d realize that Connor is a woman. You mega failed.
I would like to take this opportunity to say that I LOVE MY JOB, it is the greatest place to work and the people are all great. My commute is great, the pay is great, and I love the work.
Timmy Levad is a douchebag. He should apologize for his rude welcome to the newbie.
Too bad too many people think that they can completely reverse whatever they’re written online. Too bad @theconnor forgot that there’s something called Google Cache – people dug out everything about her (from her blog and Twitter), lol.
A lesson learned the hard way – don’t tweet it if you’re not ready to face the consequences.
A good thing that came out of it is that she’s probably going to be famous for being the Cisco Fatty 😀
If you’re going to say stuff like this why would you name the employer? Short of naming the company, I do not see anything wrong with the comment.
Yikes! So much for that fat paycheck.
DOH! brainiac. you think someone smart enough to get a job at cisco would be bright enough to not twitter about it. moron. he didn’t deserve that job.
I already have a Facebook account. Why would I need Twitter as well. I keep hearing about it, but I think it would be nice if you wrote a blog entry about why Twitter is worth it (or not).
Twitter is retarded
Big ugh! How ignorant. And way to mock the multitudes who would snap up any job right now, “fatty paycheck,” or not. Arrogance never pays, and this was probably an expensive lesson.
Fuck Tim Levad, what a douchebag.
Uhh… It was a girl, idiot. Get a clue before you start making blog posts pretending you were the first to report on a topic.
Twitter must have indeed been his water cooler moment of the day. Maybe he didn’t realize the reach of twitter or rather how twitter works. Ever wondered why your updates fizzle out and some of the crappy ones sizzle. I wish i knew that technique. Maybe one has to make preposterous claims for that. I wish him luck in the quest for his next job.
Wasn’t “he” a she? http://ciscofatty.com/
“So please, please, PLEASE, for your own sake THINK about what you are are about to post to the web”
No don’t! It’s funnier for the rest of us…
Um, might want to do a little research before tossing out the incorrect pronouns.
The twitter user in question is definitely not a ‘dude’.
Oddly enough, you CAN safely be “yourself” on the internet and other social media (Twatter). Use a psuedonym.
Whoever “you” are, the real you is going to polarizing, full of warts, and widely disliked. The real you will have unpopular opinions and likely be held against you at some point in your career and/or life.
You choice is simple, “public brand management” or live with the consequences. And let’s face the truth, pretty much NO ONE lives with the consequences. Everybody self-censors what parts of themselves they show to the world, all the time, and everybody is real selective about who they show their real selves to.
So we’re left with “public brand management.” Is this is no different than it was 100 years ago, when people watched their reputation in a small town. Say one thing in your heart, another thing to your family and friends, and still another thing to the general public. That’s just life. Learn the lesson and live it.
Some people use the web under their real name and carefully craft their reputation under it. The “me” under my real name on the internets is only a small part of the real me. I’m bigoted, biased, insensitive, foul-mouthed, brutally honest (can honesty be a weapon? yes.), and full of hundreds of interests outside of those I express (under my real name) on the web.
Wanna be honest on the internet, or on social media like Twatter? Use a psuedonym. Let those 45 friends know it, and let the public go fark themselves.
Thanks for the avalanche of comments. This is obviously a pretty hot topic for some of you.
Three things:
1. At the time this and other posts on this story were written, there was really no way to tell if @theconnor was male or female. Based on the avatar and the way the update was written, I assumed it was a man. I would have been happy to verify that with @theconnor, but he/she was too busy trying to undo the damage and build walls around himself/herself.
2. I reserve the right not publish insulting comments, especially when they are posted anonymously. I don’t mind the swearing, but if you feel that strongly about something, then have the huevos to come out in the open and let us know who you are. It’s just common courtesy.
3. For what it’s worth, I think Tim Levad acted appropriately, especially given his role with Cisco. Like it or not, his response was tempered, professional and adequate. You have every right to disagree, but there is no reason to be rude about it, is there?
Regardless of whether or not I had to block your comments, thanks for taking the time to read and respond to this post.
“I don’t mind the swearing, but if you feel that strongly about something, then have the huevos to come out in the open and let us know who you are. It’s just common courtesy.”
Jesus, you’re a piece of fucking work!
Why, so you can publicize everything about them????
Yeah well… think about it:
1) She has a public Twitter account in her real name
2) She recently got a job @ Cisco
3) She basically said that work @ Cisco is effed up in her _public_ Twitter profile…
Now, if you ask me, she must really hate that job, so… good riddance !!
timmylevard is one of the biggest twits. I mean for real. get a life timmy.
Don’t do it! San Jose sucks!
Please read http://www.theconnor.net for the rest of the story. She does a great job of addressing the whole issue of using Twitter.
We have all learned a lesson or two through this. Myself included.
I am the real Tim Levad. Really. Olivier, you can email me if you would like to verify.
No, dafadafssdf. Not so we can publicize everything about them. Nobody cares who they are… Or who you are, for that matter. You want to hide behind your little keyboard, be my guest.
It’s just that if you’re going to insult someone – especially in a public forum, you should be man enough NOT to keep yourself hidden. Come out in the open and let them know who you are so they can at least respond. What you’re doing here is no different from sending an anonymous letter to someone or burning a cross in their front yard in the middle of the night. You’re rude and you’re a coward.
By the way, your IP address is captured every time you leave a comment here. It doesn’t matter what identity you use or what made-up email address you enter in the box. You can hide who you are from other readers of this blog, but not from me. Give that some thought next time you feel the need to post an angry “anonymous” comment on someone’s blog.
I’m not sure why people like you can’t just say what you think without being rude and insulting about it. You might want to look into getting some counseling.
omg..man i shd be careful now…but i think this is very relevant in the US..Asia takes it in a lighter vien!
Do you guys know what an internet is? Why do you refer to this person as “@theconnor?” Their name is not “@theconnor.” The @ symbol means that timmylevad was talking specifically “at” the twitter user named “theconnor”
I haven’t blogged about this because smarter and more awesome people are talking about — like you! Great post.
In a time where the jobless rate is 10%, this dude, or dudette, gets little sympathy. The Internet is not a place to post your pathetic and baseless whining.
This is so true. I just gave a seminar on Friday about the basics of social media for your biz and we had a discussion about how important it is to tweet responsibly and err on the side of caution. People didn’t realize their tweets – while deleteable from their own page – are never deleted from the public stream and continue to show up in searches and remain on followers’ pages.
IF nobody cares who they are, then why did you post their IDs on your blog? You could have mentioned the event – and the previous persons could have as well – in such a way as to preserve anonymity. So it’s not really an insult so much as it is the truth, isn’t it? Would somebody’s insulting blog comment under their real name make good fodder for another post of yours?
While you’re at it, you might try unmoderating my first comment. It explains a context in which people should twatter or blog, one that you probably agree with as a branding specialist. It went like this:
“Oddly enough, you CAN safely be “yourself” on the internet and other social media (Twatter). Use a psuedonym.
Whoever “you” are, the real you is going to polarizing, full of warts, and widely disliked. The real you will have unpopular opinions and likely be held against you at some point in your career and/or life.
You choice is simple, “public brand management” or live with the consequences. And let’s face the truth, pretty much NO ONE lives with the consequences. Everybody self-censors what parts of themselves they show to the world, all the time, and everybody is real selective about who they show their real selves to.
So we’re left with “public brand management.” Is this is no different than it was 100 years ago, when people watched their reputation in a small town. Say one thing in your heart, another thing to your family and friends, and still another thing to the general public. That’s just life. Learn the lesson and live it.
Some people use the web under their real name and carefully craft their reputation under it. The “me” under my real name on the internets is only a small part of the real me. I’m bigoted, biased, insensitive, foul-mouthed, brutally honest (can honesty be a weapon? yes.), and full of hundreds of interests outside of those I express (under my real name) on the web.
Wanna be honest on the internet, or on social media like Twatter? Use a psuedonym. Let those 45 friends know it, and let the public go fark themselves.”
I think you can agree, had that twitter been under a name like “Xre56754sf” then the outcome would have been markedly different.
Dafad, being yourself in a social setting (and this is a social setting) means trying not being rude or insulting.
You may be sitting in a basement all by yourself right now, but when you participate in these discussions, you are surrounded by people.
This isn’t a question of “warts and all.” This is a question of REALIZING that this blog and Twitter are social environments just like a coffee shop, a cocktail party or a public park. Being considerate of others matters.
Being polite and not blurting obscenities isn’t being disingenuous, it’s simply being polite.
How many times must it be said? If you wouldn’t say it on TV, don’t tweet it! It’s the same thing: you’re broadcasting to the world.
lol4chan
It’s a great point you make here. And I think there’s a little bit of a learning curve for some people as to just how public FB, Twitter and blogs actually are. It’s really a new social paradigm for most people.
But, at the end of the day, it sounds like @theconnor may have dodged a bullet anyway, given the fact that he would hate the work. Perhaps it was intentional, be it consciously or not, to kill the deal. Of course, it’s not graceful either way.
why is tim la’vad’ is licking boots of cisco hr?
We just have to be honest and kind.
It sounds like she didn’t want the job and was on the fence about taking a job which had to many drawbacks for her. Yet by voicing her displeasure over the particulars of the position in an unprofessional way on a public forum (twitter), she got caught by the hiring manager. Does that sum up what she did?
Hey Tim, thats none of your F***ing business.
If I am not satisfied with my work but still I dispose my duties well. Whats your problem if I share this feeling with the world
long before there was facebook, twitter, and the wwweb was IRC and local BBS’s. (some of you weren’t born yet) as a SYSOP it was my job to keep the flaming at a minimum. flaming was when a person was attacked, rather than their idea, beliefs, and sometimes bad articulation of their thoughts. it taught us (many of us at least) to think before typing in the heat of any moment.
i can imagine the struggle between a “fat” paycheck, sucky commute and a job that i didn’t love versus my real love that i’ll never get rich at, don’t have to get dressed for, and only have to walk down the stairs to my studio. even with being unemployed for a year (and homeless as of 3/30/09) i may still articulate the dissonance.
it’s a hard learned lesson to remember that one should write it down in a journal, or in an email addressed only to “self”. i hope this person still gets the job and paycheck and is thankful that there is work for “him” or “her”.
and has learned a lesson for a lifetime.
Randy: Not exactly, but close enough, yes. (Tim isn’t the hiring manager in this case.) It sounds like she wasn’t excited about the job but was considering it because of the money and the bullet on her resume – which, let’s face it, aren’t bad reasons to take a job, especially in this economy.
Sharing her feelings with friends in a more private forum would have probably been a non-issue. We’ve all been unhappy with a job at some time or another. Everyone complains about their job, their boss, a co-worker… It’s normal. It’s just not super smart to do it in a very public space on the internet, where a comment can be forwarded to millions of people in a matter of minutes. 😉
Live and learn. That’s all it is. 🙂
And claiming I’m in a basement all by my lonesomes isn’t rude or insulting? LOL Yes, right. Nothing rude or insulting about that at all. ROFL Nothing insulting about drawing moral equivalence between anonymous comments and cross-burning, either. Oh yeah. Do you read yourself?
Being considerate of others might involve blogging about the incident in such a way as to not publicly divulge the identities of the persons involved. You and the others on this case could have done that pretty easily. Instead, you and the others on this case have made life worse for the parties involved.
Being considerate of others? Best you check yourself as well.
Here’s a sample of how a “considerate of others” post might have gone:
* omit their name and the company’s name
* omit the graphics
* omit the initial links
* set the stage with anonymous discussion of the event
* rest of post stays the same.
Sam message gets across to the readers, but less damage to other people’s lives. You (and the others you linked to) compounded the problem.
Very considerate of others.
What an undersight for the girl.
I read about this too and thoroughly enjoyed it – thank you very much Olivier
I believe that Ted/Tim Levad (I really don’t want to scroll up to get his correct name) did the right thing. who wants to work with someone that hates their job – it makes the environment so much worse than just dealing with the every day crap we already go through in the workplace!
I concur – dafad (again, won’t scroll up for non name) doesn’t seem to understand internet bullying or the fact that just because you are behind a computer screen doesn’t mean you are alone!
I learnt my lesson about public brand image- but not in such a harsh manner. I thought i was being smart by posting a venting session on my facebook status about finding out some awful news about they guy i was dating being a liar – no names included – but anyway, not five minutes later a friend called to advise me that potential employers may from that see as neurotic person with no understanding of Too much information and said to keep my public image clean.
Thanks for this, I’ll certainly share.
Dafadawhatever: Please don’t cry.
You come here and insult me, then don’t like it when I call you on it, and the best you can do is turn yourself into a victim… and then try to lecture everyone on how to be considerate bloggers?
Are you kidding me?
Or learn a lesson taught, however unintentionally, by our former President Clinton, the one he was forced to learn himself, to whit, things done in private are seldom also in secret. Five years ago tbjs goth prick–couldn’t get a job at the Genius Bar, never said “hi” to anyone, that type–was booted out of a sterile office I worked in because he would blog about things he wanted to do to his co-workers assuming many of the same things about them not to mention his own solipsist sense of the world, precisely as this object lesson has learned too.
It’s amazing when opinions turn into a dog fight. On my blog a few weeks ago I had what turned into a cat fight among the commentators on my blog and another blog of a Mom who wrote a post that “she knew I was writing about her”. The party went on and on…about breastfeeding of all things. I was supported by many for just having an opinion ( http://dailyblonde.blogspot.com/2009/03/rent-boob-controversy.html ) but the backlash was enough to make me want to chug tequila. She wrote a “poor me” post and got hundreds of comments that were like getting myself an virtual ass beating (from some who hadn’t even read my post but already had an opinion). I then posted a rebuttal ( http://dailyblonde.blogspot.com/2009/03/rent-boob-controversy.html ) and still believe my blog is my house–I use tact but I also do what I want in my house. Don’t like it, go to my neighbor. Who knows when boobie-gate will end.
The fun on the internet never ends. Why go to the circus when it’s right here???
Love your post…
a few years ago i started a company called blush, the art of sensual living. it did well and i had a great following of customers. the navigation was “taste, touch, hear, see and smell”. high end products, mostly from europe where sensuality is greatly appreciated, and differently appreciated. i sold a part of the business and went back to work in software.
i hate the wink wink i get when i interview for jobs. and i wonder where it’s blocked me from getting work. when i started the business i knew there would be some risk. but it does last quite a long time.
too bad i can’t find my press for product releases when i worked at microsoft. no. THOSE don’t seem to last.
Re: “… my blog is my house…”
I totally understand.
Anyone can come here, read these posts, and participate in the conversation. That’s what the blog is for.
But when people come here for the sole purpose of being insulting or hurtful, that’s where I draw the line: I won’t stand for anyone acting like a bully or shouting obscenities here.
Everyone if free to disagree with comments I make or others make, but there is no reason to be rude.
I don’t like to censor comments, but I have had to throw several comments out today because they were completely inappropriate and offensive. That doesn’t make me happy, but that just goes with the territory. I won’t lose any sleep over it.
🙂
SHE PUT HER RESUME ONLINE http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~criley/criley_resume.pdf
Miller: That’s a great story. 😀
Play safe, use….brains!
Sean O’: You are 100% correct. There is no context on the web. The circumstances surrounding what you say are completely irrelevant. At the end of the day, all that remains is the letter of what you said.
Your tone, intention, mood, wit… all of these things are stripped from the words. Just like in politics.
People who have a beef against you WILL use your own words, your own comments against you if you give them the chance. Absolutely.
Brian Reich: Yes. Most companies need to stop looking at social media as the enemy and switch from a fear/censorship model to a responsible usage model. We’ve just started to put together a program to help companies sit down with their own employees and educate them about social media risks, opportunities and responsibility.
As Bettggwaz mentions, every employee now is a potential PR threat. SM usage policies are a good start, but companies have to also help their employees navigate these sometimes murky waters outside of work as well. This starts with dialogue and education.
People will continue to make errors in judgment – and sadly, social media platforms will amplify these snafus like never before – but most of these potential problems can be averted with proper training.
🙂
i think i am the cranky middle-aged woman here…but…i was told a few times that i didn’t get a job because i’m not strong on social media. that’s sort of like asking me about my favorite site (an old interview question in ’96ish).
as a business person i know enough to not reply all when i shouldn’t (i was one of the 186 applicants for a gig at twitter that an hr admin replied all to with the bad news of not getting an interview), i knew that news was going to be big on the web when i joined a team of dreamers in ’95 and created MSNBC.com, and i know that the game of telephone always ends badly.
i love the energy behind “2.0” and social networking. i hate to admit that my mother said “sometimes the rules are ageless” and i sneered. good manners, critical thinking, and being nice will get you farther than you think. snarkiness is funny if you’re getting paid for it on Last Comic Standing.
not if the world is watching and you’re just an average joe.
stepping off my soap box now.
Pretty funny how Twitter can be both an amazing tool to build a (personal) brand and destroy a (personal) brand with just a few keystrokes.
This kind of stuff is a complete puzzle to me. Maybe some of us need to send messages to others and see if they are okay before sending them out enmasse.
I dunno.
“Exercise the same common sense and decorum you would in ‘real life’ social situations.”
Uhm… One probably ought exercise *more* common sense and decorum than one would in “real life” social situations.
Hehe. If I ever become head of a big company, I’m gonna hire someone to do this for me.
Tim Levad should be fired for intimidating other employees
Dan: Really?
What a bunch of cynics. The party who twatted that was simply weighing in increased salary against a longer commute. As a business owner, I would have no problem with that, and if I wanted that candidate bad enough, I would want to know something like this is on their mind.
I posted on jaiku about an interview I had and foolishly named the company– there was no fallout, but a friend pointed out that I’d be better off not naming names and I realized his advice was good. I’ve been much more discrete since.
failarious!
for get about losing your job and start your own business. if you are working for someone then you are probably make someone else rich
I think you could have kept the word dude in. In my opinion dude is a neutral gender word.
Anon: It was a little more than just a passing remark about not liking the commute. ;D
That being said, I wouldn’t necessarily withdraw my offer of employment to an applicant because of something like this.
But I can see how many companies would. It’s just the kind of world we live in.
learnsmallbusiness: I hear ya.
Randall: Good advice, man.
My career is fucked because of my political views, which I posted on the Internet. You know, radical political opinions… like that I believe in the constitution, that our government should follow it, and I think the federal reserve should be abolished. Also that I believe that our country is a republic of democratic states, NOT a democracy, and that socialism and communism is a threat to our country and its well being.
Got fired a few weeks ago. Probably can’t get on a plane without some asshole sticking his finger in my asshole now.
No way to clean it off of the web.
75k year I was making… now I fight with hundred of people for 10$/hr jobs. Welcome to McDonald’s, how may I help you?
I am told that I am over qualified for the low paying jobs so they won’t hire me. My family is going to be living on the street in 6 months if I don’t get something going on. Will work for food!
I’d like to smack my 8th grade social studies teacher for teaching me about my freedom, my rights, privacy, our government, and the constitution. Thanks a lot asshole. I’m fucking blacklisted by the FBI, DHS, and LexusNexis for believing what you said: that I had nothing to fear for exercising my creator given rights.
There is no liberty, there never was. We are all slaves, and if you are a bad slave, your masters will punish you. Be warned.
Love big brother and enjoy a much nicer version of hell, or make your way to room 101.
Bubba, your story isn’t that uncommon.
“Freedom” has always been a subjective word. Sure, you are free to think anything you want and express those views… but the flipside of that coin is that your employer also has the freedom to fire you if he wants to. And if he can’t do it because he doesn’t like your views, he has the freedom to find another reason that isn’t illegal.
Truth: If you do not have the power to truly speak freely, then you are not truly free.
Working for “the man” is not freedom.
It sounds like you may want to consider starting your own business. Become an independent contractor or a consultant. Learn a new skill, maybe. And by all means, keep looking for a job as a “Plan B” but I don’t think you’ll ever be fully realized as a human being and a professional until you are free to be who you want to be. 🙂
Don’t wait for someone else to tell you where you belong. Free yourself. Getting laid off may be the toughest thing that’s happened to you in a while, but it may also have been the best thing to happen to you in a while as well.
🙂
Courage.
@Oliver
I have no choice by to try and succeed, or die trying. I have little mouths to feed. I am amazed at how many job applications require some level of clearance now. They have somehow created a new system to vet out the misbehaving slaves.
I hear where you are coming from, and I am on that track at the moment. The truly unfortunate part about this is that my high standard of morality will have to be degraded to compete with all the snakes.
But when it comes down to survival…. you do what you have to do to survive.
wowzers inspector gadget, does penny have to solve all your cases?
Score one for twitter! I’ve heard of this stuff happening before, hopefully people will get more intelligent with social media in the future, but I doubt it!
And I would imagine this advice should go double for people starring in internet videos and porn. But as someone once said, “Never give advice–a wise man won’t need it, and a fool won’t heed it.”
This makes me think about a couple “reply all” mistakes I have made in friend emails. Ouch.
Lol! This really made me laugh. I went back through my Tweets to double-check them for “neutrality.” 😀
Fuck Cisco.
Just more proof that capitalism and democracy are incompatible.
If your paycheck stops you from speaking your mind, then guess what, you ain’t free.
All this shows is: ALWAYS, ALWAYS only post anonymously.
@oliver: “I don’t mind the swearing, but if you feel that strongly about something, then have the huevos to come out in the open and let us know who you are. It’s just common courtesy.”
Absolutely disagree. This has nothing to do with “huevos” and nothing at all to do with courtesy. I would simply just NOT post if I cannot do it anonymously. You are welcome to censor vulgar or insulting posts, but I hope you will keep the reasonable anonymous ones. We can have a perfectly civilized discussion in anonymity. In fact, I believe the discussion will be MUCH BETTER if all the participants are anonymous.
“By the way, your IP address is captured every time you leave a comment here. It doesn’t matter what identity you use or what made-up email address you enter in the box. You can hide who you are from other readers of this blog, but not from me.”
I don’t know if you are just incompetent or naive. But you CAN’T track people with an IP. Try and track me. I will offer you a free dinner in a restaurant of your choice if you can find my identity. Good luck.
Anonymous Coward: I don’t mind anonymous comments. I just don’t like anonymous insults. There’s a difference. 😉
Last I heard, I was both naive AND incompetent, so good call on both counts.
I understand the argument that anonymity might help with honest communication. But can’t we not be equally honest under our own names?
Seems to me that it’s most often an anonymous contributor who slings the mud and who lets their simian colors fly in a manner they wouldn’t dream of in “real life.”
And I think that’s the point: We are all human beings looking at our screens and participating in “the” great discussion online. Let’s treat each other as such!
All the love,
Jason Thomas Locke
I found this article this evening and found it relevant:
http://www.cio.com/article/121550/Web_Rage_Why_It_Happens_What_It_Costs_You_How_to_Stop?page=1
This is precisely why we built http://www.answerjam.com – so you would have a safe, secure, anonymous place tp put all those things that you want to say but shouldn’t or you don’t want to be linked back to you or a known username
Thanks, Jason. Well put.
Cool article too.
Oliver, Jason, anonymous coward, and bubbaGump:
Oliver, how do you have the time to work with this blog? You appear to be very good indeed at what you do.
I’m definitely with Jason on this one. Even a proper nom de plume (like mine: “rakkav” is short for it) at least reminds me that I’m a real human being, that I’m dealing with real human beings, and that what I say or don’t say will have consequences.
This has a relationship to the nature of freedom, and especially freedom of speech: something that’s occupied several posts here. I don’t want to be misunderstood now, but I submit that “freedom of speech” per se (like most “freedoms” that people get excited about) is overrated. It’s worthless if there’s no self-discipline, something the American Founding Generation spoke and wrote much about. In that light, the lack of self-discipline in some of the comments allowed here (let alone those censored) should tell us all something.
“Freedom of speech” is not absolute. Our Constitution (including the First Amendment) was written for a moral and religious people (noted John Adams); and I submit that those who show a lack of ethics in their speaking and writing show themselves unworthy of that Constitution, let alone of any higher law governing human behavior. Part of that higher law is being imposed by the nature of the Internet, whether we like it or not. Anything we say, for good or for evil, can and will be used against us, to an extent never possible before. We might as well say what is good and let those who persecute us for saying good pay the eventual and inevitable penalties for their doing so. (Or else we need to keep silent out of prudence, as one must often do in evil times.)
And that brings me to bubbaGump’s comments. bG, may I point out first that absolutely everyone is enslaved to someone or something, and that isn’t necessarily a bad thing. What matters is whether you’re enslaved to the ethical or enslaved to the unethical — and no one can make that decision for you. Don’t let the pressures of the hour and the “snakes” that surround you make you lose sight of that, for if you do, both you and yours will pay the penalty both here and now and later on.
Second, your civics teacher was not wrong, then; I’m old enough to have heard the same from mine, and to remember when there was still decent respect for our country’s ethical heritage. That began changing in my generation, I’m sorry to say, and largely at the hands of my temporal peers. With all due respect, bG, how did you miss the fact that this was going on around you? (Maybe I should introduce you to a retired friend who makes sure that I don’t forget that fact.) When leaders become a law unto themselves, one had better either keep silent about them or else be prepared to pay whatever price it takes to resist them. Some people have lost everything, including their lives, over the centuries doing the latter. But better that than to become like their opponents.
Third, be warned: if you think the world is crazy now, just you wait. And you may not have to wait very long.
Go with God.
Rakkav: Thanks for taking the time to write that comment. You make some very good points.
Free speech comes with its share of responsibility, and that responsibility can be heavy at times. No doubt.
🙂
I mentioned this in another blog comment but I’l say it again this is a new form of Darwinism. This is Darwinism done tech style and this classic bit of stupidity just saved Cisco a real huge headache by making their lot in the gene pool known right away.
That seems just about par for the course these days.
The world is getting smaller and smaller with technology and I think it’s time we keep some of our thoughts to ourselves.
LOL owned. People don’t realize but many bosses have started checking out employees on facebook, myspace, and all of the social sites to check them out. It is easy to lie on a resume and put forth a false personality during a face-to-face interview, but now due to social sites they see the real you.
Bec, empty and r4p: You guys nailed it on the head.
I had a boss once who listened-in on her employee’s phone calls, read her emails and IMs and scrutinized every website they visited (while at work or from company equipment).
This is 100% legal.
She also had one of her employees befriend the others on Facebook and Myspace just so she could see what they were doing or saying.
The “spy” employee didn’t have to do it, but since she agreed to, it was also perfectly legal.
Ethical, maybe not. But legal, absolutely.
That type of behavior is becoming mainstream in middle and upper management, so get used to it. From corporate voyeurism to preemptive PR management, this is the reality: Nothing we say in a public place or via an electronic medium is ever truly private.
Thanks for the comments.
Heck, it’s not new. I remember doing this sort of opposition research for a freaking -student government- campaign (at Cal, no less!) SEVEN YEARS AGO. The real connection is between theconnor the twitter user to Connor R., the person. I make sure that there is zero connection between the above username and my real name, which fortunately is also shared by several other Internet-active people so that I can safely pass the buck off to them should the need arise.
Calwatch: You’re right about the fact that this is not new.
The difference between now and a decade ago is that the tools are so readily available now and on such a scale that tens of thousands of uninitiated are discovering these platforms and using them without understanding the ramifications.
The monitoring and aggregation tools are also much more sophisticated now, which compounds the problem even further.
Being dude12345 in a chat room seven years ago = pretty sure to fly under the radar. Not so much anymore.
The space has changed a lot since then. 🙂
@theconner has clearly forgotten that they were communicating a private thing in public channel. He/She wouldn’t stand up in a crowded train and scream it, so why they felt the need to put it on the internet – for life – is baffling.
Ah well. Not the first, won’t be the last.
Wow… Talk about stupid decisions! What was he thinking?
Then again, I spied an colleague’s IM status message
“Don’t be an ass#$%e, I see enough of them at work”
He is an ex-colleague now…
Yes, in the old days we actually had to derive stuff from their AIM user names to look for it on the web, and actually have to piece together clues. Now the real name -> user ID connection is much much easier (or nonexistent with the case of Facebook). Sometimes I wish it was more challenging. 🙂 Thanks for keeping the discussion civil, Oliver.
my hat goes to tim levad. no one wants to work with someone posting negative comments about his company on some public site.
Its amazing sometimes, how little use is made of the brain. A few additional seconds of thinking/reasoning would have saved the dude from trouble.
Great post!
Haha… Hilarious Tale. So much for ‘corporate confidentiality’ and ‘insider trading’.
Hi
i do understand that some companies have employees have have nothing better to do with their night life then to spy on other employees. If I read something and I know the person that wrote it, I would never rat them out. Lets take the company I work for. I would rather demand honesty then have a bunch of phony’s working for me. To lose ones job over words is just another case of censorship.
I had this happen to me, but it was something that I don’t remember – meaning that I was probably drunk. I would have gotten rid of it within a day, but it was archived by none other than our favourite search engine google, ready to be misconstrued months later. And now, almost a year later, I’m getting threatened with legal action. Just goes to show how “awesome” the law, google, and even morons, are.
Great post. What a timely cautionary tale. It’s almost impossible to erase one’s digital imprint. Thanks.
Well versed in the web. Not so well versed in basic grammar. Specifically question marks.
Bless.
ahhh. the good old days.
Timmy Levad is the worst rat 2009, fck, mind your own business. One kills for less in several countries.
Well maybe now he’ll find the job of his dreams…or not.
BTW, if any of my coworkers are reading this, I LOVE MY JOB!
This is also a great time to reference that great South Park bit…DEY TUKK UR JERB
The hazards of living in a world that’s progressively shrinking. time to watch my “clicks” and “enters”.
A very intelligent warning. which people often dont realize, everything we put on web is literally accessible by anyone and everyone, and if some one is tech savvy, well…..
HA! This is great! It’s amazing that people don’t realize that their stuff they post online can get seen. Especially those party pictures on myspace… oooohhh…
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Epic fail. How does she even know she’s gonna hate the work?
That’s priceless right there. My Twitter account only lasted two weeks before I realized that it was not worth it and ultimately, somewhat boring. What’s kind of sad is that this trend is going to continue for a while.
Has anyone considered that by the truth being revealed, this might be the optimal situation? I’d contend that employee + job = employee hate work => bad situation for both work + employer.
I applaud the unintentional honesty
Wow – “bonehead moves” is definitely a fitting tag. This is a different side to a post I did earlier this month. Technology integration: Big Brother is lurking – http://dobbsmethod.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/big-brother-is-lurking/
Funny, funny – this has been all over the radio stations, people putting stupid things on facebook, myspace, twitter and then having it held against them…..it’s called discernment!
Come one man. Please stop calling the dude/gal “@theconner”…
Excellent article! .
If you don’t care what people think of you fine, don’t expect them to give you a paycheck while you do and say whatever you want. You can’t expect a company to pay you if you aren’t even going to give them good PR. This also makes you unmarketable to other companies. Free speech is great, be a reporter and do that for a living. But then you have to stand behind your opinions, no annonymous comments. Even pen names will follow you. I’m not saying you shouldn’t speak your mind and be yourself. But if bashing a company is being yourself, don’t sell out to that very company just to get a paycheck.
The whole endorsement conversation is similar and tough as well because an advertiser may not want to be associated with someone because of their views…well that too I guess is freedom of choice. It is also freedom of choice for a recruiter to not select a candidate for a job, school or even government service based on the web history that shows the candidate is not a good fit.
Freedom of speech is one thing, it’s another for you to want to force me to take responsibility for your opinions by being associated with you. Sometimes we confuse the lines between being free and being on the offense.
It’s also just not smart. Opinions…everyone has one and sometimes they change. The lack of wisdom shown by the employee to tweet an opinion about a company they work for without letting the company know; without trying to fix the issue or giving time to find out more would raise red flags with me too…it’s just not smart.
Whatever happened to the individual desire to privacy? My rule of thumb is, if you wouldn’t say it at high noon over the Jumbo-tron in Times Square, DON’T SAY IT ONLINE!!!!!!!!!
I agree that some people dont realize that saying things online are the same as saying them in real life in front of a large crowd of people, and yes, some things people say do come back to bite them in the butt, but its not GUARENTEED to come back and bite them in the butt as your post implies. People say stupid things online all of the time and chances are nobody (who cares or knows that person) will see it. There is such thing as anonomynity too which is what makes the net such a great place. And you CANNOT trust that someone really is who they say they are on a blog, online community, comment and etc. Many people make fake profiles and try to take on others identities just to make them look bad. Bottom line is, dont believe everything you read, ecspecially on the internet! LOL
Thanks for all the comments. Mia and SugarFree, you make some solid points. 🙂
Indeed the potential for corporate citizens to make complete assesses of themselves just keeps growing everday. Congrats on a successful thread. See below for some good old fashioned examples of incompetency.
http://iloveclosing.com/2009/03/21/personal-hygiene-for-the-modern-sales-professional/
“Everything on the web is archivable, which means it is also searchable. Comments you make today will be popping up in searches ten years from now.”
Wow that is a lot of pressure, Now I am probably going to start overthinking everything that I write on the web…
…starting after this pointless (but archivable) comment of course.
Seriously though, people just need to realize that they are free to say whatever they want, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences. I am certainly willing to accept that.
“… people just need to realize that they are free to say whatever they want, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be consequences. I am certainly willing to accept that.”
That pretty much sums it up.
Thanks, James. 🙂
thanks for the post, i really needed that
I am sure every major corporation has staff that follows every mentioning of their brand on the web. There are software packages to automate this task. They range from simple and free to rather advanced solutions.
Just the title to this, is fantastic. I had already read about this somewhere else but your title really caught me!
Yeah, I heard a similar story about this where I work…the person missed the “public” part of their blog.
On the other hand, though, this brings responsibility back to the Internet.
this tale is so 1942, loose lips sink ships
stand on your two feet, say what ur gonna say, then haul ass… oh ya, hide behind some anemic nom de plume for bonus spineless points
O wow really!? I guess Joe the Plumber is screwed!!
It’s a shame Cisco employees don’t understand basic grammar. A question ends in a question mark. I learnt that in school.
good advice!
How to lose your job in 140 characters or less « The BrandBuilder Blog great article thankyou
Dude, this posted landed you on the “hawt post” on the front page of wordpress.com. Way to go man!
Caution = regrets. Loud and proud I say. If he twitted it, he meant it and wanted everyone to know it. From what I hear, Cisco’s a pretty cool place to work. Must be nice to have options in this day and age.
ugh. I don’t care if my boss can read my shit. It’s my shit. It’s personal. What, we all love our jobs or something?
This is sooo true! It’s kind of horrible to realize that how long it takes for things you put on line to disapear… maybe forever.
So ya, I google my name, and you might be surprised if you know how many people regularly google their names. Once I mentioned one of my friend’s name on my blog post when describing a strange dream of mine, that blog surposed to be a “secret garden” for me because only a handful of closest friends know about it. But ya… that friend happen to be one of the people who regularly google their names, so he came to my blog half a year later and say happy new year, said that he follow the google search to my blog.
I just felt so lucky that I didnt say anything else about him. Like… what he asked me for when he was cheating on his girfriend… who might regularly google his name us well.
Even worse, if your name is unique enough (like the username I have been used for over 10 years- nah im not gonna tell you what it is), you dont even have a chance to explain… or deny what come out from the research engine. People will know exactly, “Ya that IS YOU! There’s no one else has such a stupid name.”
But more common names have their own problem, too. My Chinese name which I regularly google (;P) is somehow boyish and not that unique. So I end up get to know every update and news about a famous male doctor who happen to have the same name as mine =), and what’s more, who happen to be my parent’s friend in real life.
And there was one time, when i google mt name as usual, one post came up… it actually use my name as the title and it was on the first page of search results, i just couldnt miss it. The title was actually “XXX you lying bitch!” =_= and the content was like how the person named XXX (my name!) betrade her and lies to everybody so that they all think that she’s a nice person but she is not. The network shows it was not my city even not my provice and her age was definately not within my friend circle. But HEY! IT SHOWS MY NAME! and seems like the post just stay on the first page FOREVER! What people gonna think when they see such a title and when they happen to know someone with the same name in real life?!
Just an exercise with Mr. Levad at the center of it.
From these out-of-context comments, I assume:
1) Mr. Levad drinks quite a lot of alcohol, re: huge shot glasses and beer bars.
2) Mr. Levad is quite judgmental; re: ‘classic SF crazy person freakout’.
3) Mr. Levad makes a good amount of money at Cisco and has an accountant that can produce “fantastic” results.
If I was a client of Mr. Levad’s and he was courting me for a business deal, suddenly I am not sure if his motivations are actually providing me with the correct solution or rather if he needs additional money to drink and go on vacation.
Further, when he hangs up the telephone, perhaps he will label me ‘classic pain in the ass customer’.
Being from San Francisco, I take particular offense to the last comment, for those very ‘classic SF crazy person freakout’ moments can often be attributed to the closure of mental health facilities and the unfortunate reality that there are many people on the streets of SF who are not capable of supporting themselves.
Or perhaps he means there was a fellow prima donna from the Castro theatrically playing up a minor disagreement. Regardless, I am quite curious to know what a ‘classic SF crazy person freakout’ is. Whilst I do not adore every individual in San Francisco, I do recognize their right to be there. However, apparently that is not appreciated when one is five minutes late for one of the meetings that provides Mr. Levad a stable income to drink beer and go on vacation.
Shame on you Mr. Levad. You may well have cost your company a fantastic employee and ruined someone’s potential for a job in a tough economy and your response is ‘I learned something’.
What did you learn?
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RT: Things I love about the US #1 the shot glasses are huge. Nice one! (via @chopps)
Running 5 minutes late for my meeting at 1:00 thanks to a classic SF crazy person freakout at Happy Donut. I just want my Sammy not ur krazy
Just got a call from my accountant on our taxes and the news was suprisingly fantastic. We’re going on vacation. w00t! Paaaanama-ha-ha-ha-ha
off to play some raqball w/@glennmc, @dlprager, then to @monkskettle, pretty much one of the best beer bars in SF (via @kevinrose) W00t!
Good advice – I’m constantly reminding my clients not to post stuff on Myspace, Facebook or their own websites that they wouldn’t want anyone to see. Some of those Facebook/Myspace “questionnaires” ask for informatin that most people would sue a prospective employer for asking, yet they provide that info freely to — anybody who wants to read it! How nuts is that!
Employers regularly search the social networking sites to check out prospective employees, and attorneys do the same, gathering evidence for cases. Even producers/directors check out social networking sites and personal web pages for info about someone they’re considering – they don’t want to offer a contract for a supporting role to someone who has a post on his Myspace saying, “Hey, dude! Did you recover from all that crack we smoked Monday night?”
People just need to get a clue – besides, does anyone really NEED (or want, for that matter) to know about the most outrageous thing you’ve ever done?
Thx, nice post:)
@theconnor is indeed a female:
http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/people/students/connorriley
Well, my boss knows I hate my job and that the firm sucks big time. I’ve told him so to his face!! best thing is, he agrees with me but we both have mortgages to pay so we stay there. Doesn’t stop us from doing our best while we are at work though!!
I agree with the old email rule comments and, since you can’t convey intention via social media/twitter, you REALLY have to craft your comments carefully. The words that often ring in my head are “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” Thank you Mom!
And, OBVIOUSLY, we here in the US have the freedom of speech. So, say/tweet whatever you want and don’t be shocked when you’re expected to be held accountable.
Great, thought provoking post!
Who uses their real name on the internets? I have several aliases myself. Jason Haunts is brand new so enjoy! (I hate my boss)
Not that I’m impressed a lot, but this is a lot more than I expected when I found a link on Furl telling that the info is awesome. Thanks.
And then Dooce was born.
You gotta love it! – if he got his rejection letter in the post, he kind of deserved it.
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Nice post on this topic.
I think while it is true you need to watch what you post, I disagree this person should be terminated and humiliated lifelong over a rather hasty lack of judgment that on some day or another, we all can make this kind of an error.
From the other perspective, how normal is it for someone to pursue a less than ideal career after weighting the cost and benefits of salary, commute, the economy? To anyone other than Cisco, this person is quite normal.
If we in the U.S. especially are so pro-free speech that it is the First Amendment of our 200+ year old constitution, then we should to stick to our convictions. I agree we need to watch what we post. On the other hand, by using articles like these to insight fear in people’s free exercise of public speech, we are contradicting our own Bill of Rights.
With all due respect, free speech has nothing to do with HR decisions. You have the right to declare your hatred of Jews, homosexuals and women in the workplace any way you want and as often as you want. On TV, on a street corner, on a website or on Twitter. Have at it. It’s perfectly legal. You won’t get prosecuted or imprisoned. That’s the right to free speech.
Your employer, however, is not a judicial body. It has every right to determine that your actions in doing so don’t mesh with their brand’s image. If your actions (and/or words) are judged harmful to the company or brand, they have every right to fire you.
I pretty much guarantee that if you went around telling everyone you know how much you hate your job and the company you work for, it wouldn’t take long for you to be looking for new employment. It isn’t an issue of free speech at all.
And as an aside, the individual in question hadn’t started yet. She wasn’t an employee. She had been offered the position in good faith. When she chose to complain about it, she in effect put her motivation to work there in question for the hiring manager in the same way that hesitation or complaints on her part during the interview would have earned her resume a trip to the bin.
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Many people have lost their jobs over tweeting negatively about their boss
Very interesting post and funny, great job!
This is seems to be interesting article.You know most of HR like to advertise job openings through social networking sites.Its really works well…
Yep don’t mention work on either your Twitter or Facebook account.
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I think 140 char will be enough to express our thoughts that’s why more people converting now a days on twitter and so i think Twitter is best social media now a days.
I see it all the time, people are still generally ignorant about just who is looking at their tweets and posts. One wrong tweet and it’s time to go looking for another job. It’s holding up in the courts too, in cases where wrongful dismissal has been claimed the courts throw it out. Gross misconduct online and offline amounts to the same thing.
When you are a lawyer, your job is to clean up the messes of others, to rubber stamp and make legal someone else’s real work, to essentially
The great thing about the internet, reading this article 3 years on, and having a good chuckle at what’s been written, as well as in the comments.
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This is definitely true. Think twice and be responsible when posting something that can get you in trouble, so you won’t regret it someday.
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I guess the ‘dude’ might have seriously underestimated a giant corporation.
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