How to Use Facebook to Get Fired: Say Your Job is Boring

 

So as not to give companies more excuses to kick employees to the curb in this tough economy, I've warned before about watching what you post to your social networking site. After all, MySpace photos have gotten an Oregon mayor recalled, and now a Facebook post about how boring her job was has gotten Kimberley Swann of Clacton on Sea in England fired from her job at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited.

Kimberley Swann, 16, came home one day and typical of a 16-year-old, posted what she later called a "throw-away comment" on Facebook. Thing is, while that's what she told the BBC, there was more than one update on Facebook about how boring her job was:

• first day at work. omg!! So dull!!
• all i do is shred holepunch n scan paper!!! omg!
• im so totally bord!!!

 

Thing is, big deal. The name of her company isn't even mentioned. However, after allowing some of her colleagues at work access to her Facebook page, word got back to her employer, and viola: fired.

Tech-Ex: How to Use Facebook to Get Fired: Say Your Job is Boring