[Air-L] Facebook posts used to fire people in Australia

[Lois Ann Scheidt]

As always, well said Rhiannon...it does get so old the idea that all of this
is new. The only thing that's new here is the reach of the
communication...in that "rifling" can now be done privately and more
thoroughly than just going through a desk.

Lois
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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rhiannon Bury
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 10:42 AM
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook posts used to fire people in Australia

The public/private bites back, for sure, but this is  not new to facebook.
Years ago, I made a mildly negative comment about a former department  in an
email to a new colleague. She promptly forwarded it to the Chair because,
unbeknownst to me, she had an agenda and wanted a program I ran closed down.
It didn't work but the Chair called me in and I had some explaining to do.
Very embarrassing to say the least.  A situation like this  can happen with
any form of written communication. A friend of mine was fired on the spot
when her new boss her rifled through her desk and found a photocopy she had
taken on the office machine for her own business. 

The lesson for facebook is the same for any other "traceable"
communication--think before you post and in the words of Deep Throat from
The X-Files, "trust noone." :)

Rhiannon 
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