Selfies & Social Media Can Get You Fired

[Guest]

This one really happened last week where I work. Seemed like it needed to be shared in a general way because so many folks don't seem to think about the consequences of their actions before doing something like this.

 

This should be a bad joke, but its really more of a PSA.

 

We've been short handed at work for the last few months and we keep getting students applying for the open positions because, well we work at a university. One of the cardinal rules for our research building is no cameras inside the building. No pictures without prior approval of the big cheeses in charge. Period. Pretty simple, right? Most would take that to mean don't use your cell phone camera too, but not this young lady. She worked less than a week before getting fired.

 

She took lots of selfies on her phone while at work in areas easily identifiable in the background of the pictures. She also posted them to Facebook -- which is where the boss found them. Her FB page was wide open for everyone and anyone to see. Oops. (Facepalm)

 

So, the lesson is: selfies and social media can get you fired when you post pictures proving beyond all doubt that you're violating your employer's policies to the internet. Same goes for other inappropriate things too.

[Guest shiloh357]

I am glad I have an old "tin can and string" cellphone with an old camera that is no good for stuff like that.   My phone goes back to like 2008, which in technology years is like 3,000 BC.  I am one of the few people who still uses  a cell phone as a phone.  Nothing fancy, no web surfing, no data minutes.   In my opinion, "selfies"  are just narcissistic.

[Littlelambseativy]

They never learn....and compromise sensitive info or their own future...some people must have a sound stop when it comes to ..Don't!

[ncn]

  My phone goes back to like 2008, which in technology years is like 3,000 BC. 

 

You could upgrade to this. 

 

[wingnut-]

ncn, why are you showing off my camera phone

[Guest shiloh357]

I dunno, ncn, that's  a little too high tech for me.  I still haven't mastered the clay tablet and stylus yet.

[ncn]

I dunno, ncn, that's  a little too high tech for me.  I still haven't mastered the clay tablet and stylus yet.

 

 

[OakWood]

I dunno, ncn, that's  a little too high tech for me.  I still haven't mastered the clay tablet and stylus yet.

Selfies are just a fashion of the narcissistic generation that we have today. FB is appalling anyway, it's all me, me, me.

 

By the way Shiloh, my phone goes back to 2005 (I think) so I believe I've beaten you on that one. It only makes and receives phone calls and sends and receives text messages. The camera doesn't work and there is no internet or wi-fi access.

Don't get me wrong, I like technology but I have a particular distaste of mobile telephones. I think it's because I get annoyed by seeing people texting all the time and fed-up of hearing someone in the street who appears to be shouting to himself. Why people on phones shout, I've no idea. Maybe it's because they think that they have to shout because the person they are talking to is far, far away. Personally, I'm not interested in letting the general public hear my private conversations. I'm not important enough for my private life to be of any interest to them but everybody else thinks that their own lives are!

 

Rant over.

[Guest shiloh357]

My phone doesn't even do texting.  I never got into texting.  Not only that but these latest phones are being used to mine information about the owner every day.  People don't realize that everything they say and do on their phone is being stored and can be used against them later.

[ncn]

 

FB is appalling anyway, it's all me, me, me.

 

 

 

 

FB is like anything else.  It's how you use it. 

 

It can be a great tool for witnessing. 

You would be surprised how many members on Worthy have joined through FB.