Tag: FIRINGS

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 ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/04/18/myspace-fires-employee-after-data-breach/'; MySpace employees experienced some unusual high and lows this week at work. On Monday, workers for the social networking site learned of a data breach orchestrated by a fellow employee, who collected names, Social Security numbers and compensation information of many of his co-workers. Fox Entertainment ...

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 ...

Fair or not, you've got to be very careful what you post online these days. Schools, employers, and everyone else is probably going to check out what you choose to share on social networking sites like Facebook. Sixteen-year-old Kimberley Swann learned this the hard way after she was unceremoniously dumped from her position as an administrator at Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Essex, ...