Facebook and the workplace

Tobes

Tobes

Tobes

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Anyone ever had any problems with Facebook and the company you work for?

I ask because I got called into the managers office yesterday for a club that I have just started working at about my Facebook status which commented on the entry and pint prices. Apparently it was unacceptable and they want their staff to be proud of where they work. Having a comment like this for "everyone" to see is not good.

I have a idea who emailed them my status but it's been eating away at my head that a company would pry so much when they could have said nothing unless I was actually slagging them off. It's not like I took a sick day off and posted "is sitting at home playing games and can't be assed to go into work".

Is it something you have to be careful of now? Just not talk about work on the internet?

I want to point out that the comment was before I signed a contract and it's what I was informed by a bar supervisor.
 
is wondering if any of you will pay £10 to get into *******, then pay £4 for a pint? Oh and there is a area where the minimum spending limit is £50. Do any of you even spend that in a night out? Maybe I need to find upperclass friends.
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I should point out that I asked that because the max entry fee around here is £5 and pints/bottles are about £2.
 
You've got to be pretty dumb to talk specific details about work on Facebook these days.
 
I think its pathetic. People comment on their work in many places, are companies now going to ask for transcripts for every conversation its staff have outside of work?
 
If you wouldn't say it around the workplace don't say it online.

Never understood why some people think that the two are different.

The amount of people I have seen who brag about taking drugs and getting ratted and then stating where they work is unbelievable.

The ops comments do seem to intimate that the club is for upper class people only and that the prices are way above what would be normal.

People seem to become information exhibitionists once they get online and then get annoyed when it comes back to people they didn't want to see it.

Morba said:
I think its pathetic. People comment on their work in many places, are companies now going to ask for transcripts for every conversation its staff have outside of work?
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When you comment online you are in effect publishing your comments and opinions which is somewhat different from having conversations. A conversation is overheard by the parties present at the time, online comments could potentially be seen by millions.

Why do you think the moderation of these boards is as tight as it is?
 
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djmc0 said:
I speak of my workplace on facebook non stop, just dont accept your boss's friend request, Why would you do so anyway?
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I didn't. The 2 friend requests are currently not accepted. Someone on my friends list emailed it to the PR manager which was forwarded to the manager.
 
Tobes said:
I didn't. The 2 friend requests are currently not accepted. Someone on my friends list emailed it to the PR manager which was forwarded to the manager.
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Why are they on your friends list if they'd do something like that? Doesn't sound like a friend to me.
 
Another facebook FAIL.

If you choose to post your life on the internet you deserve the consequences. At work I personally removed the access to it for certain people.

MW
 
You are showing lack of respect for your employer posting stuff like that to your status imo, a quick word with you by a manager seems fair
 
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