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  • #46
    oo i'll have to read that post then. i didn't know it was illegal.
    though yeah you may have to prove it...


    But o wait... you need to prove it right?
    Last night at work I received a final written warning about not posting ANYTHING about work on social networks. (facebook and twitter)
    I believe that would constitute proof.
    and if i'm not mistaken contracts cannot contradict the law - and in the article they did state that the policy was in fact illegal.

    I believe you may have a valid case to bring to the labor board if you so wish. Though it may also burn some bridges. But in my opinion you have a strong case against them in this.

    I wish you lots of luck.



    now personally... when i've bitched about people i usually do it here or on live journal. i can't say i was always private about it on LJ but the supervisors in question... some weren't smart enough to find it anyway, or not devious enough to try.
    Last edited by PepperElf; 11-13-2010, 01:40 AM.

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    • #47
      Quoth PepperElf View Post
      now personally... when i've bitched about people i usually do it here or on live journal. i can't say i was always private about it on LJ but the supervisors in question... some weren't smart enough to find it anyway, or not devious enough to try.
      LiveJournal has always been different anyway. Aside from the fact that its not as popular therefore there is less a chance your boss even knows what it is (I mentioned to my department director once that I wanted to go back to using my LiveJournal more and Facebook less and he said he'd never heard of LJ), LiveJournal's privacy settings are more versatile, more useful, and more trustworthy. You can make a custom group to include or exclude anyone you want, and unlike with Facebook, I've never once heard of a bug occurring rendering everything public regardless of privacy setting. And while what has been seen cannot be unseen, its much easier on LiveJournal to go back and make something private after the fact if you realize later that it needs to be private. You can't do anything about whether or not people have already seen it, but you at least can prevent further access.
      "Who loves not women, wine, and song remains a fool his whole life long" ~Martin Luther
      "Always send a lazy man to the angel of death" ~Martin Luther
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      • #48
        Sorta related to this topic: On another board I'm lurking (or maybe more appropriately, skulking) on, I'm watching a guy pwn himself out of a job through his postings.

        It seems he was a "specialist" with this company, but his job was eliminated. He bragged about how good he was at BSing his managers, how he was planning to break several rules, and just revealing himself to be dishonest and disloyal.

        He posted he had asked his store manager about becoming a supervisor, and got brushed off. He complained about not wanting to work in certain areas of the store because he wouldn't get recognition for the things he did there, even though this company wants people they can plug into any department, any time.

        Then he bragged he was going to call out for his opening shift on Black Friday and claim he had to take his mom to the hospital, when in reality he was waiting outside the local Best Buy to shop their Black Friday deals.

        Now it seems he got called into the manager's office and interrogated about his posts on that board. Oopsie doodle.

        He thinks somebody from the board narced him out. Oh well, he dug his own grave anyway.
        Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil.

        "I never said I wasn't a horrible person."--Me, almost daily

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        • #49
          I don't post anything about work on Facebook. That's what this board is for.
          "Is it hot in here to you? It's very warm, isn't it?"--Nero, probably

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          • #50
            o yeah that's why i like LJ. ... the ability to control exactly who can and cannot view my posts

            plus the ability to send in posts via email. had a coworker who'd nag me about "blogging" and incite others to whine about it too... so i got myself the paid LJ account and switched to emailing my posts in. so it never dawned on him that my emails were actually my blog posts


            though for us - because we were military - we had specific regulations pertaining to blogs... but pretty much those just focused on comsec, and whether or not we were badmouthing the CO.
            Last edited by PepperElf; 11-14-2010, 06:57 AM.

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            • #51
              I rarely talk about work on Facebook. If I do, it's very general. Stuff like, "Rough day," or, "Good day." If I vent, I come here. Or talk to my cat.
              Friends help you move. Rare friends help you move bodies.

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              • #52
                I am VERY paranoid about what I post anywhere on the internet in regards to work. I'll admit that I'll be the butt of some "tinfoil hat" jokes, but that's why I only have an LJ account, and even then I very rarely talk about work on there.

                I've just read too many horror stories about Facebook in general for me to get an account there, and I'm assuming it's even crazier in regards to work-related issues.

                Of course, I have it generally good where I work, so I don't post a lot here anyway.
                Osoroshii kangae nimo osoware masu...

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                • #53
                  I have a facebook, but I only use it to talk about art and quilty-related stuff. No family whining or bad customer stories.

                  The bad customer stories I tell on here, and the family whining.....is just kinda stuck with me. Heck I don't even want to deal with it, why would anyone else want to read it?
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                  • #54
                    Might be heating a bead dorse here, but I can understand the side of the companies, in that they don't want anyone to talk bad about them. I don't think it's right, since one is on ones own time, but, I can agree with it. A strange bedfellow, what is right and what's agreeable.

                    It's a form of liability protection - to protect against a customer lawsuit.

                    And as we all worked in SC fields, we understand that customers will be offended by anything, and will look to sue for /everything/.

                    So.

                    Good luck, and use this place, not Witter/Basefook. It'll keep the job.

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