We’ve
warned both employers and employees on several occasions about how the misuse
of social media can land you in hot water. Taking to facebook or twitter to
have a moan about a colleague is unlikely to do you any favours when a
colleague takes a screen print of the comments to the boss’ office.
But we
wonder what an employee of fast food chain Burger King was thinking when he
posted a photo on the internet of himself stepping in lettuce. The picture was
captioned with ‘This is the lettuce you eat at Burger King’. As you can imagine
there were some disgruntled customers that were appalled by the image! The GPS
data was tracked so that the location of where the image had been taken could
be pinpointed and subsequently emails and phone calls were directed to the
Burger King in question.
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Upon
hearing the commotion, Burger King took action and dismissed three of its
employees who were involved.
It
goes to show the damage that can be done by clowning around at work and employees
and employers take note: anything that is posted to the internet is public and
can be seen by anyone, and used by anyone! Naturally, having a social media
policy in place to work alongside a disciplinary policy will endeavour to
combat this happening to you. Go to our website for more information: www.hrdept.co.uk
