Canadian Woman Gets Fired via Facebook

By now, we've seen plenty of people fired thanks to their online antics on social networks like MySpace or Facebook, but this latest story takes that idea and puts something of a twist on it. According to Canwest News Service, Crystal Bell was a worker at a Canadian spa who logged in to Facebook one morning back in November before heading to work. She had a message waiting in her inbox from her boss -- a message indicating that she'd been fired. Thinking her boss was kidding she went to work anyway. As it turns out, it wasn't a joke.
Bell lives in British Columbia and is a frequent user of the site -- in fact she actually found the job and was hired over Facebook. In that light it's somewhat more fitting that her employment was also terminated through the service, but that still makes it rather distasteful. Now, of course, there's a legal debate stirring about how appropriate or inappropriate that action was, but that's a discussion that will surely take some time to settle. Until then we'll go ahead and label this as rude. [From: Canwest News]
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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsLegalBeagleMay 9th 2009 12:00AM
Communications about employment (like "your fired") are business records that employers are supposed to keep. As unconventional forms of communication (like Facebook and Twitter) become more popular as media for serious interaction, businesses will need to keep those records -- just as they should be keeping e-mail today. http://legal-beagle.typepad.com/wrights_legal_beagle/2009/03/record-keeping-in-financial-markets-to-soar.html
D-o-double-gMay 9th 2009 6:48AM
I'll go ahead and label this as boring. Are you even trying to find a good story?
georgechevy1May 9th 2009 9:06AM
What an ass hole! She should sue for the public humiliation.
GeoMay 9th 2009 10:10AM
What exactky did she do [or NOT do...]? But yeah to publicly annouce her dismissal... which is why I do not suscribe to facebook, twitter, myspace,etc... only AIM [ by AOL].
ShannonMay 9th 2009 11:57AM
They didn't publicly announce it - he sent her a message which goes to her personal Facebook inbox. Big difference.
nspeon98scxMay 9th 2009 10:24AM
face book, twitter, and "mind your own space" r the stupist things on the net these days. i know several people on space waste and all i hear is drama drama drama. mind your own damn business. these people are the most immature people on the planet. grow up people. mind your own business, (oh i farted, better put on my space so people will know) how retarded!
psyops3000May 9th 2009 10:52AM
Apparently the Canadians don't have any laws that protect the workers. Not that we are any better here in the US, but if you tried that in many states, the boss would be the one in trouble for violating labor laws, but times change and people have become much ruder and impersonal. Many things are changing in terms of what is and should be done regarding ehtics, morals, and ways of treating people, and most of them are crap. We are declining as a civilized race and there appears to be no stopping it. This woman, depending on the laws in Canada, may have a lawsuit.
goldennorse82May 9th 2009 2:09PM
The boss is probably a control freak or in between masterbating to facebook images snoops on employees because they have no life!!!
jessicaMay 9th 2009 1:46PM
That's a load of crap. You NEVER discuss disciplinary action or work with an employee that is not on the clock. Whether it be termination or correction, it is the same as working off the clock and is illegal at least in the US. It is unprofessional and frankly the woman's boss is a coward that he couldn't face his employee to do what needed to be done.