Employee gets written up by HR for posting about disliking Mondays on personal social media account: 'Someone in the office is creeping on my social media'
cheezburger.com
There are a number of reasons why HR might reprimand you for something… but this seems a bit far-fetched. Here, we have an employee who, like any other twenty-something employee in the 2020s, has a personal social media account where they post photos with friends and the occasional relatable memes. This past weekend, the employee shared a relatively benign photo of their friend group grabbing drinks on a Saturday night. There was nothing inappropriate documented that could come back to bite the…

Because of crap like this is why I haven’t been on any mainstream social media for 7+ years. And where do companies get off going over employees’ personal crap anyway? For the record, I believe EVERYONE hates Mondays.

  • eldaviEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    … until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.

    the most recent version i’ve seen of this are my colleague software developers who don’t give a rat’s ass about the impact that their work is doing so long as they keep getting paid almost a quarter of a millions dollars per year to pay for their investments and put their children is the best possible schools.

    i think that external pressures will always force a person-vs-person conflict like your and my example to enable the goals of the platform.

    • youmaynotknowOP
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      3 hours ago

      I guess that’s the price we pay for living in a mostly capitalist world. It sucks though. At least I’ve been able to keep my kids out of those things for 11 and 9 years. That alone I consider a win.

      • eldaviEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        it is and it’s the most that you can do given our situation.