Twitter Costs Jobs

I recently read an article which mentioned how a lady lost her job because of an inappropriate tweet she had posted on her company's twitter account. The tweet had suggested that she blow off work in order to play golf. As a avid golfer myself, this can of course be tempting on a nice summer day. However, she needed to realize there is a place for work and a place for play. As a result of her negligence when dealing with twitter posting, the worker was served severance papers during the weekend after she had posted the tweet about "summer hours" at the place of work. An executive from the company mentioned that workers are only allowed to leave early on Fridays if the worker already has their 40 hours in. However, the Friday when the tweet was posted, no one left the workplace early. As a result of this tweet, the woman who was fired clearly did not consider the consequences of her twitter actions. After this twitter debacle the company has changed it policy with workers leaving early. The company has now said that someone needs to be here Monday-Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Most workers have started not to leave early no matter what the situation. Possibly the workers are not leaving because they are afraid to get fired. I think this is a real event in the workplace today, people need to be careful what they are posting for themselves as well as to other people on social media sites. Stories like this one show that you never know what people are going to see from your posts.