Top 5 ridiculous Facebook Firings!
By Africanlegend
Being fired for some kind of online verbal diarrhea is becoming more and more common. Most people forget that putting up a status on Facebook can be as visible and public as running down a busy street naked, in florescent pink body paint with a megaphone, screaming obscenities in a foreign language. All it takes is one drunken or enraged status update or a slip of the tongue by that racist friend of yours (we all have one for some reason) and your career will begin to sink like the Titanic.
Without further ado here are my Top 5 Facebook firings and my VERDICT.
5. UK JUROR FACEBOOK POLL.
In the UK, a Juror was dismissed after sharing sensitive information on Facebook regarding a trial. The woman posted details of the child abduction and sex assault case on Facebook. She posted the following comment seeking her Facebook friends assistance; "I don't know which way to go, so I'm holding a poll." She was swiftly dismissed and the trial continued with 11 jurors.
VERDICT: UNFAIR DISMISSAL.
A trial verdict is intended to be determined by a jury of your peers. By opening it up to facebook that increases the number of "peers" and would likely yield to a statistically more accurate decision. If a juror in the OJ trial had facebooked something like,"Dead white girl, fled police, bloody glove, DNA connecting him to crime scene, guilty look and demeanor. What do y'all think I should do?" Perhaps they'd have gotten the verdict correct?
4. FIREFIGHTER VS ER DOCTOR.
A firefighter-paramedic, Jason Brown was fired over a 3 minute video clip he posted on Facebook. The clip was of an exchange between two cartoon characters at a hospital. He was obviously airing his frustration at incompetent medical staff as well as the bureaucratic system which he worked in.
Verdict: UNFAIR DISMISSAL.
The video was as imaginative and creative as an M Knight Shyamalan movie while offering an honest critique of the bureaucratic, incompetency plaguing the medical field.
3. NEW ENGLAND
New England Cheerleader Caitlin Davis lost her job after posing in some Facebook pictures that included a man covered in offensive markings drawn on his skin. These markings included offensive material like swastikas, profanity, penises, ambiguous genitalia and other standard images that should rightly be drawn on people that pass out at parties.
VERDICT: EXTREMELY FAIR DISMISSAL
Although it is always tragic when a hottie is fired, if you look at the second picture from the top, Caitlin is doing the infamous "duck lips" Facebook pose. This, in my view, should be an automatic fire-able offense and possible banishment from society.
2. REVENGE OF THE GAY BOSS.
Verdict: VERY FAIR DISMISSAL.
A woman that cannot even spot a gay man cannot be an asset to any company.
1. JENNY.
While this is not a Facebook firing, I am hoping that 19.7 hours of Farmville in a 40 hour week should hopefully be enough to earn you a termination. A woman, who we know only as Jenny, quit her job and sent a flurry of pictures to her fellow employees which ultimately outed her boss as a felony level Farmville addict. Her rage came after she overheard her boss calling her an HPOA (hot piece of ass) on the phone, which to me is the only thing I side with her boss on. Here are the highlights, the rest you can find HERE @ www.chive.com
UPDATE: HOAX..READ ABOUT THE HOAX HERE
SHE QUIT!
SHE HATED HER BOSS SPENCER!
THEY HAVE A BRILLIANT NAME FOR THE OFFICE TRASH CAN.
SPENCER HAS: A TEMPER.
BAD BREATH.
AND THINKS JENNY IS A HOPA???
SORRY A HPOA!
ALTHOUGH SPENCER INSTALLED A PROGRAM TO MONITOR INTERNET ACTIVITY, HE HIMSELF SPENDS.....
GOOD LUCK JENNY :-)
CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL PICTURE SET.
VERDICT: JENNY IS AWESOME AND HER BOSS SHOULD BE FIRED
Jenny you are brilliant, smart and definitely an HPOA....I am bowing down to your legend as I write this.
Category: Top Fives
