Tag: FIRED

It's 2009, and surfing the Web during work is pretty much an accepted activity, but take heed -- when you're on company time and dime, you may still want to stick to the straight and narrow. According to the 2009 Electronic Business Communication Policies & Procedures Survey, 26-percent of bosses have fired workers for e-mail violations and 52-percent have fired workers over inappropriate ...

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 ...

On the list of stupid things to post to Facebook, photos from a murder scene have to be right up there at the top. Apparently, this never occurred to Mark Musarella, a now-former emergency medical technician (EMT) at Richmond University Medical Center in Staten Island, New York. While on EMT duty on March 30, the 46-year-old retired police officer was called to a murder in the West Brighton ...

Apparently, Boston drivers just don't get it. Last week, a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority trolley driver was fired for texting his way into an accident with another trolley, injuring 50 people. Now, the Boston Herald is reporting on another similar firing -- this time, a suburban Boston school bus driver was caught texting (with both hands off the wheel) by a camera-phone wielding ...

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 ...

We've heard of people getting fired for posting incriminating photos on Facebook, or bad mouthing their jobs in their status updates, but this is the first time that we've ever heard of someone getting sacked for simply logging in to the social networking service. A Swiss woman, who remains unidentified, called in to work at Nationale Suisse, sick with a migraine headache, according to a brief, ...

We're not sure exactly what Brad Williams, the now-former IT director for the city of Norcross, Georgia, could have been thinking if he in fact did as he's been alleged to do -- used his work computer to download some 24,466 pornographic images. As part of an investigation into William's poor job performance, monitoring software was loaded on his office PC, eventually revealing the ...

Facebook offers members opportunities to not only remain in contact with distant friends and meet new people with common interests, but to also voice their opinions and describe in great detail the minutiae of their daily lives. For some reason, though, people can't seem to grasp the concept that they might be held responsible for their statements. Mike Sabz, a firefighter for the Mid and West ...

Long time news anchor at French network TF1, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor (known also as PPDA), has been fired in (according to some reports) the most unceremonious way possible -- via text message. The beloved TV news anchor is one of the biggest TV personalities in France and was seen nervously texting during the Roland Garros tennis tournament (aka, the French Open). PPDA was reportedly trading ...

There's no point in lying anymore. With new technology, someone will always catch you whether it's on camera, through spyware, or GPS. Take the following anecdote as a lesson: It seems John Halpin, a supervising carpenter for the New York City school system, was let go after he was caught skipping out early and falsifying his time sheets. Turns out the Board of Education was tracking his ...