Stupid Acts at Virgin With Facebook Lead To Getting Canned
November 3rd, 2008 | by Jason Alba |If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!
I’m amazed that this stuff still happens… alas, some people still think social networking is their private, non-work environment. Thanks to Gayle Howard, a resume writer in Australia, for passing this link on. From the article:
Virgin Atlantic has sacked 13 of its cabin staff after they criticised the airline and some of its passengers on social networking website Facebook.
The airline, controlled by Richard Branson’s Virgin group, said the staff’s behaviour was “totally inappropriate” and “brought the company into disrepute”.
And continues,
“Following a thorough investigation, it was found that all 13 staff participated in a discussion on the networking site Facebook, which brought the company into disrepute and insulted some of our passengers.”
Yeah, go ahead and keep using Facebook as your personal place to rag on people. Especially customers, prospects, bosses, etc. I guess it’s a different kind of career management philosophy than what I’m used to :p
Read the whole Facebook fiasco here. Virgin did the right thing.
