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South African Calls Boss a "Serial Masturbator" on Facebook, Gets Fired

by Peter Mychalcewycz on May 28, 2009 at 07:11 AM

With so much pain and humiliation caused by Facebook around the world, we were less than shocked to hear that the cycle of embarrassment had traveled south of the Equator.

According to an AFP article, hosted on Google, a South African man was recently terminated from his job after calling his boss a "serial masturbator" on Facebook. What did he think was going to happen? Did he expect a cookie and a tummy rub? Apparently, the 23-year-old wasn't a huge fan of his boss, and decided that a virtual, worldwide forum was the perfect place to vent his frustration. We have to wonder why he even bothered with the "serial masturbator" tag line. He just described half the people on Planet Earth for goodness sake (not to mention primates!).

Brothers and sisters around the world! Heed our advice! Facebook is a place to post pictures of you with beautiful people you barely know. Facebook is a place to be witty and slightly politically incorrect to people you want to impress. It is not a place to vent about people that could potentially fire you! Follow those simple guidelines and you should be just fine. [From: AFP/Google]

Tags: facebook, facebook face loss, FacebookFaceLoss, fired, firing, funny, job, social networking, SocialNetworking, south africa, SouthAfrica, top, workplace

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