Tag: FIRED

Due to an administrative error at Britain's Ministry of Defense, 38 soldiers recently learned via e-mail that their contracts would be terminated in a year because of sweeping budget cuts. According to an Associated Press report, British soldiers who agree to these short-term contracts usually learn whether or not they'll be renewed each year around January. The Ministry of Defense first contacts ...

We've seen plenty of people lose their jobs over things they post on Facebook. Now, the National Labor Relations Board has stepped to their defense. As the New York Times reports, the NLRB filed a complaint last week against American Medical Response of Connecticut, an ambulance service that fired an employee for posting comments about her boss. The employee, Dawnmarie Souza, allegedly posted a ...

Here is this week's Reason That Twitter Should Be Banned. In yet another high-profile overshare, Octavia Nasr, the Lebanese-born Senior Editor of Mideast Affairs for CNN, was fired Tuesday for posting a single tweet about the passing of one of Hezbollah's most influential clerics. She wrote: "Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a ...

Just a few days after threatening to fire employee Brian Maupin because of a couple of videos he'd posted on YouTube, Best Buy has extended the olive branch. But Maupin is refusing to grab it. In a statement, Best Buy declared, "Our investigation is over, and these videos are no longer on the Web. Contrary to rumors, Brian has not been fired, and is scheduled to return to his job at Best Buy ...

It won't help the Pittsburgh Pirates win any baseball games, but, in an effort to quiet one critic, the team fired a pierogi. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Andrew Kurtz, who dons a pierogi costume and races other Eastern European dumplings around PNC Park during Pirates home games, was fired last week by Pirates brass for a disparaging comment he made about the team on his Facebook ...

At this point, we find it hard to have sympathy for people who get fired because of something they posted on Facebook. It's like touching a hot stove -- you know not to do it and it will hurt if you do. But for some reason, people just haven't learned. According to the Charlotte Observer, a UNC-Charlotte student was fired from her waitress job for complaining about restaurant customers on her ...

Part of being a professional is knowing how to separate work and play. For example, if you're a network systems administrator that's interested in extraterrestrial life, you shouldn't search for signs of it while on the clock. Unfortunately for Brad Niesluchowski, common sense is illusive. According to the Arizona Republic, Niesluchowski resigned from his position with the Higley Unified School ...

Ever since they started cutting costs in the face of an industry-wide slowdown a few years ago, airlines haven't exactly been Mr. Popular among traveling consumers. Long lines and delays have left most passengers dismayed and disgruntled. And now, one airline in particular faces a growing PR crisis after firing one of its employees over... defending his company? The former worker, identified ...

We've told you about people getting fired via Facebook and via text messages, but what if you learned about your termination by reading a news alert sent to your e-mail? Well, to no surprise, that's how Fox News operates. According to Think Progress, analyst Marc Lamont Hill first learned he'd been axed when he received a Google Alert about the story October 16th on his cell phone. The ...

For some reason, people will risk total embarrassment and unemployment to watch porn at work. Of all the places we'd rather not think about people thinking sexy thoughts, a factory that makes pizzas has to be near the top. According to the Leinster Leader, three employees at the Green Isle Foods plant in Naas, Ireland were fired at the end of September for "improper use of the company's IT ...

When will people learn that Twitter isn't the place to complain about their job? Jon-Barrett Ingels became another footnote in Twitter history after he was fired for writing a nasty tweet about HBO star Jane Adams. The former waiter at Barney Greengrass in Beverly Hills was outraged after Adams, who appears in 'Hung,' skipped out on $13.44 bill earlier this summer. Believe it or not, she actually ...

We give up. Seriously. No matter how many cautionary tales we share, every week someone ends up dumped, fired, arrested, or worse. People just can't seem to learn that no matter how private you think something is, if you post it online, people will see it. The latest victims of Facebook faux pas are members of Calumet County, Wisconsin's sheriff department. FOX 11 reports that Jennifer Bass, a ...

Why is it that people can't learn to exercise a little discretion when sharing things online? How many cautionary tales does this world need? Apparently, the story of the Philadelphia Eagles employee who was fired for criticizing a team trade via Facebook didn't stick. And neither did the anecdote about the South African man who used Facebook to call his boss a "serial masturbator," or the woman ...

A New Zealand office worker recently learned a tough lesson: When sending an e-mail, be careful with fonts and colors. Someone could interpret that bold sentence the wrong way. According to The New Zealand Herald, Vicki Walker was fired from her position as financial controller at ProCare Health for sending "confrontational" e-mails that included words in red, bold, and worst of all, capital ...

The same NFL organization that recently gave one of the most controversial second chances in sports history by signing Michael Vick isn't willing to extend the same courtesy to a former employee. Now, the Philadelphia Eagles are being accused of sending mixed messages. Dan Leone told MyFoxPhilly that he was fired from his post as the gate chief at the Eagles' stadium because he left a critical ...