Fired from Farm Boy on Facebook
Employees fired after beefing about work on chat site:
Another tale of people who still don’t get that the internet isn’t private. This time it’s some employees of a Canadian grocery store chain known as Farm Boy. Seven employees of the chain were fired for complaining about their employer on Facebook. They had set up a forum called “I got Farm Boy’d”. Sounds painful.
Farm Boy president Donny Milito said Wednesday that seven of the forum’s 186 members were fired for making verbal attacks against customers and staff and breaching the company’s code of ethics.
Here’s some words of wisdom from an attorney of all people…
According to David Harris, a Toronto lawyer specializing in wrongful dismissal lawsuits, Internet users need to realize anything they say online can come back to bite them.
“When you say something defamatory, if you are lambasting your employer unfairly, then it’s fair game that the employer could hold you to a standard and terminate your employment,” he said.
As well as watching what they post to Internet blogs and chat rooms, employees should be very careful about how they use their corporate e-mail system.
“It’s unfathomable the things people think they can get away with using company e-mail,” he said. “It’s all a matter of public record.”
Remember kids. Anything you post or send on the internet has the potential to be seen by the world whether you think it’s private or not.
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