Isn’t the answer to a job/company/bosses you don’t like for whatever reason, to find another hopefully better job and bugger off already, not moan endlessly to other people unable to keep their counsel.
It’s not your present employer that’s the one to worry about it’s possible future employers who can look back and see what sort of drivel you are happy to publish.
All companies depend to some extent on the discretion of their employees (and vice versa), in my opinion agreeing to work for someone has a with it a moral obligation (not quite Kings Shilling but that sort of thing) to not blab to all and sundry things details possibly of use to a competitor (enemy in the case of the KS) and thats a permanent thing, not to blab to all like some petty traitor the second you’ve left…those who spill company confidentialities would soon be jumping up and down if the company blabbed about their performance/details/secrets…Loyalty, another dwindling resource.
If i was an employer i would certainly google any potential employee and check their faceache history…can’t keep your gob shut equals no job here.
I have worked at company,s that include a proviso in your contract of employment relating to behaviour on social media. Depite this people insist on putting derogatory remarks about who they are working for . They then cant understand why they are being disciplined. Some people are idiots when it comes to the social media , they ring in sick and then paste all over FB that they were hammered last night and to hungoverto go to work , FFS ■■?
P&H… I couldn,t possibly comment …could I ■■? , it would have been more than my job was worth
Coffeeholic:
Yes, people have been. One I remember was a bloke who threw a sickie but then posted pictures on Facebook of himself at a horse race meeting, forgetting his boss was one of his Facebook friends.
robroy:
Bloody Facebook causes more problems than what it is worth. Most take it for what it actually is, but stupid people put the sort stuff more suited to a private personal diary. It amazes me what some put on there , do they not know that people read it??
I don’t even disclose who I work for on HERE, seeing as I have been less than complimentary about them in the past, it’s common bloody sense ffs.
You see some on F/B, and especially their wives , that can’t control their gobs and slag off their partner’s boss and company. If my wife done that to me and made a [zb] out of me I would kick her arse.
So my answer to the o/p is yes, if people are so [zb] thick and stupid thst they cannot see that they are more than likely implicating themselves then wgaf about them.
Yup, agree with this approach. As someone who’s been online since 1985 - I have always made it standard policy to “Not let anyone know exactly what I’m doing at the moment”.
That way, no one turns up to burgle my house when I’m at work, know where I’m at to “pick a fight with me”, or if they are a boss - know who I am to “turn me down for a job”.
There’s enough people out there who think I’m a ■■■■ as it is - without advertising for “new recruits” in the process.
I’ll have to defer to the bigger ■■■■■ out there who think it’s cool to “friend” their boss on facebook in the first place though.
I remember reading a few years ago about a guy who phoned in sick to work. His Iphone tagged him at the golf range and posted it automatically to his facebook. He got the sack and had the cheek to take it to a tribunal!
Then just last month a nursery attendent was sacked for slagging off her boss all over facebook,twitter etc. Really horrible stuff,way over the line. Telling everyone she was gonna call in sick rahter than ask for days off etc as well.
Some people are too daft to be helped. They will never learn. All we can do is laugh at their stupidity
Coffeeholic:
Yes, people have been. One I remember was a bloke who threw a sickie but then posted pictures on Facebook of himself at a horse race meeting, forgetting his boss was one of his Facebook friends.
I know someone who works in HR for the health service… the regularity of this is ridiculous. Most people neglect their privacy settings & their Facebook is basically just an open diary of their lives to anyone in the world. People really are naive if they think people who’s job it is to investigate absences, won’t read an open book of answers. It’s the same when applying for jobs; HR staff at some firms will look up social media accounts and take a dim view of profile pictures showing you legless dancing on your dining room table.
I have a Facebook account, but I have it wittled down to about 20 friends I actually care about with privacy settings set to limit absolutely everything to them. Even then, I don’t say anything negative about work or post anything that makes me look like a ■■■■ & pre-mod any ‘tags’, as pictures especially can get out.
Young lad over the road from me, sacked from his first proper job. Said something about the company on Facebook - gone! Fool.
The people I know on Facebook just talk utter ■■■■■■■■. Who cares if my nieces boyfriend turns up on her doorstep with a new tattoo sleeve stating his love for her - after she’d slung him out
And who’d have your Boss as a ‘friend’ ffs?
Can you be fired for what an employer finds what was expressed as a private view or opinion ?
Is it snooping in to private life ?
The point is … it is not “private life” if you decide to publish your thoughts for the whole world to read is it?
and yes people have been disciplined and sacked for comments posted on here, which is why we ask folks to think careful about what they say and how they say it.
AS an OD I am the worst boss to work for, if I could sack myself I would Only problem is the real boss indoors calls the shots
Companies have had terms in employment contracts to not bring the company into disrepute for years, long before any had social media policies.
But in the question by the OP they weren’t doing that, just telling everyone (including their employer) that they had been working when they should have been on a rest period.
So the question should have been “can you be sacked for breaking driving time law?” And the answer to that is of course you can.
For those who think this is all new… a certain well known family owned haulier was known to sack people who talked about the company on the CB, and in fact banned them from being used in company vehicles for many years. It all stemmed from when the owner fitted one in his Jag and was travelling down the A1 listening to his drivers slagging the company off… and revealing just who the company was pulling for and where they were going, all details the MD thought was company sensitive information. That was 25+ years ago
toby1234abc:
Is it snooping in to private life ?
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And this is where many fall down. If you put something on social media its not private. So many get caught out these days. Basically if you wouldn’t tell a stranger in the street or talk about it loudly in the work canteen then don’t put it online.
The French Gendarmarie used to tune in to UK drivers on the CB, bragging about running on the wire and pulling tacho fuses.
They speak good English and drivers start swearing when stopped and wondered why the fine was a lot of coffee money.
I phoned for a job today.they said if u won’t break health and safety and use poa to load unload(not my job) I’d struggle to find work.set up a fake account to whistleblow or u will never work again.
mercury:
I phoned for a job today.they said if u won’t break health and safety and use poa to load unload(not my job) I’d struggle to find work.set up a fake account to whistleblow or u will never work again.
, do they not know that people read it??
