Ranting on FB, getting fired because of it

There must be something wrong here. You cannot get fired because what you wrote on facebook. No labour law indicates that an employee shouldn't talk bad about his/her workplace on facebook. If this guy bring his case to labour department, the labour department sure will support him. Why? 1. He do it outside of working hours. Employers cannot interfere with their employee activities outside working hours. 2. He didn't do anything at workplace that worth a dismissal. 3. Before an employer fire an employee, they should issue warning letter at least three times unless it is regarding breach of trust and vandalism. If I was this guy, I will sue the employer and make them pay big time. After that I will punch the guy thay fire me in the face once I winning my case.

I just responded to another discussion praising all the good things that facebook has brought. Of course I agreed with the poster's examples, but I also pointed out that aside from the good things, it also brought not-so-good things. This is a perfect example. Yes the ranting could have been done someplace else, but just because facebook was there, maybe that's why this AU guy took that opportunity. Which of course led to his firing.

People should be careful when they post on any site. You don't know who is reading the post and how they will react to anything you say. I'm sorry to see anybody lose their job when its hard to find one with good pay now.

Yeah I've read this news on Yahoo. Networking sites can be very dangerous to our career if we're not careful. It can even destroy friendships. Other than ranting status, tagging photos can be tricky too. Like I have friends who doesn't want to be tagged when they go on vacations because their boss might see that they weren't on sick leave after all but just having fun on the beach, LOL! We should also be careful on ranting about our neighbors when we have neighbors as our friends. I've tried this once, I forgot that I have a neighbor who's an FB friend, I was ranting about my other neighbor hitting our cats with an Airsoft rifle (ggrr!!!). Good thing that my FB neighbor is a close friend of mine in my neighborhood and didn't like the other neighbor as well. But it served as an eye opener to me that I should be careful in ranting about my neighbors in Facebook especially now that three of them just recently became my FB friends.

It's obvious that we can do harm to ourselves if we express ourselves freely on social networks and allow everyone to see our content,it's better to avoid such unpleasant situations by censoring ourselves.We all have moments when we feel the need to express our dissatisfaction with some aspects of our lives,but I guess sharing our thoughts with people who are close to us is enough,if we do it on FB we should be prepared to suffer the consequences.

Many people rant on Facebook, and find themselves caught in a horrible situation. I heard one time of a teacher that complained about her students and her parents, and she got fired. She then blamed if on Facebook. For me, I think that if anything like this should ever happen, the person who posted originally is at fault. Social networking sites are for you to make friends, keep in contact with them, do various things. Not rant about your everyday life. That should be kept in private for yourself, or within a close circle of friends.

hahah... i see a lot of people do this, the always rant and they seem to just love to share a lot of stuffs on these social networking sites. They are not very aware of what the consequences are. sometimes we tend to oversay things, to overreact and we think posting it on facebook or any other media that we are known may back fire... especially if we know we can be monitored. I'd say we ought to be careful, really in doing so.

I have heard of employers spying on employees through Facebook. In fact I have heard of Officials catching criminals due to Facebook stats. So you are so right what one does not want the world to know, one must not post it to the world.

Several people used to say that posts a ranting/whining/complaining status updates would help them relief from stress. But I truly believe, never ever share all of your problem on Facebook, as it may create a greater problem!

Yes, exactly do not mention anything about your work because their might be a friend of you who is happen to be a friend of your co-worker or your boss. It is okay to post how and what we feel but just a clue of it do not pinpoint..