Keep your job or surf on Facebook – what would you choose?
Posted by Emil A. Georgiev on 27 April, 2009
I agree, the topic of this posting may read a bit weird, but only unless you live and work in Switzerland. According to the swiss 20 Minuten Online an insurance company based in Basel fired an employee after having registered her activity on Facebook. Ok, that was just a part of the story, because the employee had purported to have migraine and was thus medically certified to be unfit for screen handling. Nevertheless she was observed being active on Facebook obviously using a computer screen…
My advice in this matter: (1) always be honest to your employer and (2) think before you link a contact to your social network profile!
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