Don’t bash your job on facebook!
What if Sal Tessio or Fredo Corleone had facebook? I’d say they would have been sleeping with the fishes much sooner than their eventual demise. I guess this is the reason you keep your work life and your personal life separate in the mafia. At least from what I’ve seen in the movies. But we’re not in the mafia… at least most of us are not. Shouldn’t we be allowed to rant about how much we hate our jobs, how stupid our boss is, or do stupid things in front of the camera? After all, we have been doing it for millennia. But now, thanks to the internet we can’t anymore. We are being watched. We are being ‘Googled’ before we are employed, and now we can even get fired for what we say outside of work. Few months ago a girl was fired for calling her job ‘boring’ on facebook. Last week a girl was sacked for badmouthing her boss while forgetting he was one of her ‘friends’ on facebook.
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If it were up to me, this wouldn’t matter since I am a firm believer in if you show up and do your job, then anything that happens outside work should not matter. But this is not the world we live in. People who make false injury claims and then post skiing videos from the weekend on facebook are going to get caught. It all comes down to common sense. If you add your boss on facebook, then don’t bash them. Or otherwise don’t add them if you intend to bash them. A friend of mine once said: “It’s a window into your life and if you’re dumb enough to change in front of it without closing the curtain first then you’re going to get seen by a lot of strangers passing by.”
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