4/8/2023 0 Comments Jade pinnerThese days most job contracts have a clause related to social media conduct and prohibitions against bringing the company into disrepute, which can be applied extremely elastically. The sad thing is, if you do get in trouble at work for a social media post, you probably don’t have a leg to stand on. ‘It was stuff about how I’d been drunk at work and also some incredibly vague and harmless comments I’d made about a project we’d worked on.Īre you an at-work people-pleaser? Here are the signs - and how to stop ‘Anyway, he decided to collate a little montage of my most damning tweets for our bosses to see. ‘A colleague at my old job logged into my work computer and found my Twitter, which was completely anonymous at the time. ‘They didn’t sack me straight away, though: I got the news at Heathrow airport after returning from my honeymoon.’ Gemma ‘I later realised it was embargoed by the PR company we rented our office from, and subsequently, a big newspaper pulled out of an exclusive. ‘I got fired from a low-level social marketing job when I erroneously posted something funny I found in the staff fridge: a Marmite and Mango smoothie (which was a publicity stunt for April Fools’ day). They warned that this could paint the agency in a negative light – which made me realise I didn’t want to work for them.’ Ali ‘But I was hauled into the managing director’s office the next morning and given a b*llocking. I replied “Not too shabby” – you know, about as British an answer as you could get. ‘Once I got in trouble because I’d just started a new PR job and someone asked me on Twitter how it was. ‘I realised I was bang to rights and handed in my resignation… I was not required to work my notice.’ Luke I called up HR to see what they had, and had to listen to them read all of my tweets aloud. ‘After I got back from the festival, I received a letter through the door informing me I was being pulled in for an investigatory meeting, as a result of posts on social media. So I pulled a sicky and went anyway, but not before having a pretty detailed rant about it on Twitter which included the company name – “f*** _”. ‘They said no because everyone else had asked for that weekend off, too. Once I asked for the weekend off so I could go to a music festival. ‘I used to work for a shoe shop in their warehouse on Sundays. To find out more about this disturbing phenomenon, we spoke to a bunch of people who have been fired, or narrowly avoided it, for stuff they posted online – some more innocuous than others. It’s now a common workplace occurrence, to varying degrees of severity. Her tweet went viral while she was still in the air, meaning the whole world knew that she’d lost her job before she found out – an eventuality which was eagerly anticipated with the hashtag #hasjustinelandedyet.īut you don’t have to cause an international scandal to get in hot water as a result of your social media presence. Not only was she fired for this post, she lost a subsequent attempt to appeal the decision.Īnother high-profile example in recent years was Justine Sacco who lost her job as a PR executive after tweeting an AIDS joke on a long-haul flight to South Africa: ‘Going to Africa. ‘Let’s find photos of 3yo Syrian refugee children and see if they look alike, eh.’ That cheeky grin is the (already locked-in) innate knowledge that he’s Royal, rich, advantaged, and will never know any difficulties or hardships in life. Take Angela Gibbins, for instance, who last year lost her job at the British Council after accusing Prince George of being a symbol of ‘white privilege’.Ĭommenting on Facebook, Gibbins wrote: ‘White privilege. Most of us have posted stupid things on social media, without ever imagining it will get back to our bosses.īut sometimes it does, and sometimes it’s a problem. It’s difficult to predict which posts will go viral and the potential fallout if they do. We don’t know how Tesco would have responded if Jade had still been working for them, but the whole thing raises some disturbing questions about the relationship between social media and the workplace. But lots of people wanted her to get fired. Thankfully, Jade didn’t lose her job, because it turns out she had already left the company several months prior. Several people even directly tagged Tesco in the post, asking why they employed her. ‘Not a great advert for Tesco,’ some sniped, as though that was ever Jade’s intention. Chinese scroll appraisal.To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web
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