May 5, 2009
Like the number of friend requests you reject from the weird and unloved, the number of people in Facebook-related sackings continues to rise.
A Swiss woman has been fired after her employer spotted she was using Facebook moments after claiming she was suffering from a migraine and too ill to use a computer.
The unnamed woman told her firm Nationale Suisse that she needed to lie down in a darkened room, but according to some reports started to update her status on Facebook via her mobile phone.
The company said its discovery that she was also using the social networking site destroyed its trust in her and prompted her sacking.
But the woman told a Swiss newspaper she was innocent and the company had been spying on employees by created a fictitious Facebook persona and become 'friends' with her.
Whatever the truth, it goes to prove Guru's maxim that no good will come out of social networking. It basically gives slackers the green light to waste more time at work; and we know they don't need much encouragement.
A Swiss woman has been fired after her employer spotted she was using Facebook moments after claiming she was suffering from a migraine and too ill to use a computer.
The unnamed woman told her firm Nationale Suisse that she needed to lie down in a darkened room, but according to some reports started to update her status on Facebook via her mobile phone.
The company said its discovery that she was also using the social networking site destroyed its trust in her and prompted her sacking.
But the woman told a Swiss newspaper she was innocent and the company had been spying on employees by created a fictitious Facebook persona and become 'friends' with her.
Whatever the truth, it goes to prove Guru's maxim that no good will come out of social networking. It basically gives slackers the green light to waste more time at work; and we know they don't need much encouragement.
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