How many times do people need to be reminded, posting party pics on Facebook might get you fired from your job? Here's a block quote that tells it like it is, and everyone knows you can't argue with a block quote:
According to a 2009 study by Internet security firm Proofpoint, 8 percent of companies with more than 1,000 employees have fired someone for social media actions — a figure that is double what was reported in 2008. Yet it probably comes as no surprise that Facebook firings are on the rise. Cases of employers firing employees for social media slip-ups have been consistent in the news over the past few years.
Heard that. Most people still don't get it though. Here's a huge of people who've been fired from their jobs for posting retarded nonsense on Spacebook. Remember that story about the New England Patriots cheerleader who got fired for posting pics of herself drawing swastikas and penises and swastika penises (I'm guessing) all over a passed out friend? No? How about if I post a picture of it below to jog your memory?
This other picture doesn't really have anything to do with the topic at hand, but, you know, just in the interest of covering it thoroughly:
The point is, cheerleaders are fucking crazy, man, am I right? Wait, that's not the point. The real point is that the same rules for posting party pics to your Facebook that govern the regular working stiffs of the world apparently also apply even if your job description is rotting away in a cell for the rest of your brutal, short life, and being fired means getting transferred to a nightmarish hole even worse than the last one you crawled around in.
Gawker Gawked-up this heartbreaking of stunning stupidity for the kids:
Justin Walker is serving a 30-year sentence for the killing of an Oklahoma Sheriff. "Jus N" has a Facebook page. Also, apparently, a Blackberry, a bong, a stash of weed, knives, some booze and other goodies inside his jail cell.
Oklahoma's and his , which, sadly, no longer contains the photographs of Walker taking bong rips, drinking hooch and licking shanks. He likes fantasy novels, the movie Natural Born Killers, and, according to FOX 23, adheres to white power ideology.
Here's the slightly less hot photo of my man doing his thing. This whole thing kind of makes me wonder how they ever caught him in the first place? What was his status update? "just killed a cop, bro im at my house at 234 Broadway chilling out. like i always do. lol got the gun on me. fuck the pigs LOL!!1 also, white power forever. lol.
The take away here, and I really can't stress this enough, is that if you're going to do some dirt, keep that shit to yourself. You don't need to be posting pictures of it for your homeboys and your mom and your boss and Jesus and Santa Claus and everyone else who cares about what you're up to to see. Especially if your boss is a prison warden, but especially x 2 if you'd really, really like to avoid working for a guy like that in the near future.
In other news, stay tuned for the next List entry where I talk about all the drugs I used to do to strangers on the internet so they'll think I'm a devil may care rogue who plays by his own rules.
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9 comments:
Man, I never even considered how much easier Facebook makes Santa's job.
Ha! That had not occurred to us dude. How's that song go? He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, he knows when you're drawing penies on drunk bitches faces, so don't go to jail and do drugs there on tape.
He seems like a nice enough fellow.
I think this blog has already gotten me fired from dozens of hypothetical jobs in the future.
Where are the swastikas? I love me some racist cheerleaders. Racist jailbirds? Not so much but hey if he ups his game from weed to oxy I might tickle his pecker.
Just N is going to make a baby with that racist cheerleader and said baby is going to shoot you in the penis with a bow and arrow. book it.
Racist cheerleaders are kind of hot, you're right.
Having white power beliefs and wearing your hat like that
Hoof, must not believe too strongly.
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