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Employers fire folks all the time for stuff posted on social networking sites like Facebook. Future employers and even colleges look at the social networking sites when they make decsions to hire, or accept an applicant. Air your dirty laundry on the www at your own risk.
Would she have been fired if she said it all to their faces? If so, I don't have a problem with this.
I have to agree with this.
I recently linked to my company on Facebook a week or so ago. I would never think to say anything negative about it on Facebook. I have spoken about things I didn't specifically like about their policies here, but in so doing, I haven't identified them.
Losing your income is not appropriate for speaking your mind on your own time. For example, do you think a company has a right to fire someone for attending a union meeting after work? Fire an employee for carrying a legal firearm in his truck? We already have too many problems derived from the idea of complete corporate control of the employees.
Business managers that extend their tyrannical rule to individual’s private lives need to be slapped down severely and frequently. I am not going to tolerate the “pointy haired manager” in Dilbert to tell me what to do or say when I am not in his workplace.
Losing your income is not appropriate for speaking your mind on your own time. For example, do you think a company has a right to fire someone for attending a union meeting after work? Fire an employee for carrying a legal firearm in his truck? We already have too many problems derived from the idea of complete corporate control of the employees.
Business managers that extend their tyrannical rule to individual’s private lives need to be slapped down severely and frequently. I am not going to tolerate the “pointy haired manager” in Dilbert to tell me what to do or say when I am not in his workplace.
When you are representing a company, it's no longer your own time.
The examples you gave are not valid b/c it's not a similar situation.
It's not the corporation controlling its employees and it's not a manager trying to take over someone's private life. It's preserving the company's name and limiting lawsuits about stupid libelous things that were said.
Also, I might add that if it's in the company's policy handbook and you receive that document, you are agreeing to those policies by maintaining your employment there. Don't like it? Quit. While at-will employment is not a contract for work, you still agree to abide by the company's policies or risk termination.
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