Fired for posting on face book

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They just fired a girl for bashing the company's name on face book. Risking my life to go to a underpaid job at CH is not worth it is not really bashing the company. It was a negative comment but she never said they were a bad company just that she was under paid and not worth taking a chance with her life to drive in the snow. What are your thoughts about this?

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I am sure they have ways of hacking into peoples social media pages. At my job we had to sign saying that if we post any negative media about the company we could be suspended or even fired. I guess they have a reputation to keep and you can't express your feelings on your own personal social media. It's a shame you literally have no privacy.

Companies do not have ways of 'hacking' into your profile. If you make sure your posts are visible only to your friends, and you do not have any coworkers added, the only way your company will find out what you have said is if you give them your password. It's not like Facebook is going to sell your workplace your user credentials.

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whenever i hear a story like this

i see the picture of the guy standing in

front of a canon next to a string with a

sign that says "don't pull"

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Companies do not have ways of 'hacking' into your profile. If you make sure your posts are visible only to your friends, and you do not have any coworkers added, the only way your company will find out what you have said is if you give them your password. It's not like Facebook is going to sell your workplace your user credentials.

Don't count on it. Nothing put on the internet is ever truly private. There are always ways of finding so-called private information. If people want the information bad enough, they will find a way around Facebook's security provisions. My rule of thumb is that if I wouldn't share it out in public, I won't share it on Facebook.

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This thread is EXACTLY why my Facebook profile is on total privacy and I don't even use my real name (I let all my friends know that I was changing it so they knew who I was).

I'm a nursing student and our college tells us all the time that the big healthcare organizations in our city ARE looking up students all the time prior to hiring them.

Yes, I agree that FB shouldn't matter to employers cause FB is personal thing or my private life, etc, etc, but the reality is that employers ARE checking them.

Please be careful what you post. There is no way to ever be "totally private" anywhere on the Internet but here's some tips for FB:

1) Change your name so they can't look you up. 2) Don't "Like" your employers FB page. They go through the list of followers. 3) Disable the ability to be tagged in people posts/photos. They will look up your friends/coworkers and see if there's anything about you on your coworkers page. 4) Do not friend your manager or coworkers.

If anyone has any other tips, please feel free to share!

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You know people get all upset over the fact that employers are checking Facebook of potential employees well what you fail to forget as a nurse we are the face of the company and we represent them by our actions. All the craziness that is posted on Facebook is just crazy so if the person felt it was not worth " risking her life for the low pay then do not go in I am pretty sure there was no threats or implied threats a simple phone call could have eliminated all of that by saying due to the conditions I am not going to be able to make in

The funny thing about posts on this site we never get the entire story only the part to make someone feel like the victim you healthcare is 24 function deal with it or just get out and move on no one is to blame for someone owns stupidity for posting about your job.

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Both my school and the hospital I work in implement rules regarding social media. Just don't do it. We can't even put our place of employment on our FB page because they don't want to risk someone saying something foolish and then knowing the person is an employee. Just don't do it!

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Our administrator made a fake profile and tried to friend a bunch of people on Facebook! Just to get dirt!

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Don't count on it. Nothing put on the internet is ever truly private. There are always ways of finding so-called private information. If people want the information bad enough, they will find a way around Facebook's security provisions. My rule of thumb is that if I wouldn't share it out in public, I won't share it on Facebook.

You're right, but it also isn't publicly accessibly by anyone who wants. Facebook is a billion dollar company, and while their privacy policies are somewhat sketchy (sharing personal data with advertisers, etc), their security will be as close as you can get in the technical world to bulletproof. Computer 'hacking' (in the traditional, benign sense of the word) and pen-testing is a hobby of mine. Websites run by high school kids are easily penetrated and private information tables are easily accessed. A worldwide, top social network? Not so much.

While I agree that employees should not be badmouthing their place of work or coworkers openly as it is in poor taste, it's not like administration can get access to your Facebook just because they want to. On Facebook, they're just regular users like anyone else. They don't get special permissions to view your statuses that are set to private just because you work for them.

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Knows everyone's maturity level is different but sometimes, I wish there was a rule that people must be a certain age before they could be an RN.You are right, don't bite the hand that feeds you and freedom of speech has limits. She's young and stupid anyways. I did a happy dance when she got fired because I hated working with her. She told me to not pull on a resident because it's makes him aggravated. I snapped at her with the reply he's was about to trip over the wheel chair... was I suppose to let him fall. The rest of the night, she corrected everything I did to make me feel stupid. I'm happy she's gone!!! I pray these people with no common sense doesn't get into nursing until later on, when they can make mature decision. Nursing is a hard enough job without the battle of dealing with idiots with no common sense.This morning I ate half a cup of Raspberry & Velvet cake Yogurt. I rather have plain raspberry. The raspberry and chocolate yogurt tastes okay as well. I like face book to stay in touch with family, however, I learned that playing on social networks will get you stalked by creepy people so no longer go to those places. I must keep face book to feed my Candy Crush addiction.

People should be a certain age before they post on Facebook. My guess is about 125, when they are long gone, and the unintended consequences won't matter.

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Companies do not have ways of 'hacking' into your profile. If you make sure your posts are visible only to your friends, and you do not have any coworkers added, the only way your company will find out what you have said is if you give them your password. It's not like Facebook is going to sell your workplace your user credentials.

This naivete fuels the Facebook frenzy.

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Our administrator made a fake profile and tried to friend a bunch of people on Facebook! Just to get dirt!

It's more common that anyone would care to believe.

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You're right, but it also isn't publicly accessibly by anyone who wants. Facebook is a billion dollar company, and while their privacy policies are somewhat sketchy (sharing personal data with advertisers, etc), their security will be as close as you can get in the technical world to bulletproof. Computer 'hacking' (in the traditional, benign sense of the word) and pen-testing is a hobby of mine. Websites run by high school kids are easily penetrated and private information tables are easily accessed. A worldwide, top social network? Not so much.

While I agree that employees should not be badmouthing their place of work or coworkers openly as it is in poor taste, it's not like administration can get access to your Facebook just because they want to. On Facebook, they're just regular users like anyone else. They don't get special permissions to view your statuses that are set to private just because you work for them.

Poster never heard of the NSA, or Google, or lapses in security, or etc.

It'll be years before young people realize that Facebook and all those other sites have the absolute ability to ruin their lives...

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