What’s on your mind?
Halt! Halt! Halt!
Think before updating ….
You could be…………………….
Once I received a message on my cell phone-‘I love facebook but I hate to face my book’. I would like to remind you friends that at least there is some privacy in what you have written in book but is that the same case with facebook? Is your privacy retained within yourselves and kept it safe in your shelf?
If you are thinking that yes, then circulate your mind once again. Think! (Once more) Think! Think!( last time)
I will come to this question later, but first I want to avert your mind towards the worst consequence that automatically results when one’s privacy is lost and misused on social networking site ‘Your snaps/ videos can be edited and can be published on internet’. What about getting fired, yup, you heard it right, FIRED!, FIRED from your dream job…..
What happened? Is your mind filled with queries? How can this be possible? Lets widen our spectrum and know how ‘WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND’ can pink-slip us from our company. What are the strategies that are being followed by the company to keep a check on us?
H.R dept. found out a new way for sleuthing us- Creating a fake profile and sending the friendship request to the employees (us), if accepted- The Job is done. All ours ‘WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND’ stuff and the snaps we upload now acts as a tool for background monitoring for them. Let’s have a look at some real life cases:
CASE #1
A 16-year old girl from Essex, England was fired after her boss saw her Facebook status after her first day of on the job. It read:
first day at work. omg!! So dull!!
Her boss had added her mysteriously and after reading the status he felt that if she was so bored on the first day of work, it would not be a good fit in the long run and ultimately she was fired. She then told to CNN ‘Facebook is dead for her’.
CASE #2
An intern at Anglo Irish Bank was fired due to a photo posted on his Facebook.
Kevin Colvin (intern) emailed his bosses late in the day of Halloween, letting them know he would not be able to attend work due to a family emergency in New York. When his boss, Paul Davis, received the email the following day he checked his interns Facebook, and what did he find was an obscene photograph of him in which Kevin was enjoying the Halloween party. David responded with the following message:
“Thanks for letting me know–hope everything is OK in New York. (cool wand)”
The email thread between Kevin Colvin and his boss Paul Davis are now being emailed around the internet, really hurting Colvin’s online reputation.
Now let me come to the question which I left unanswered in beginning. Where is the privacy? Where is the personal life? Where is that ‘Right to Privacy Act’? Everything peters out when it comes to FACEBOOK or any other social networking medium like Twitter, Orkut and even Blogs. But the point is that is it right doing this? Is it correct firing the employees? Is it the only solution?
I know in these cases the employees were wrong at their positions, as they openly spoke their heart out against something that is helping them to make their future better, rather than trying to make their work interesting. They have chosen this job, it’s their duty to dedicate themselves entirely into it and embrace every kind of problems they have to face in it. On the other hand I am not satisfied with the steps that H.R takes. There could be many alternatives for it. Firing is not the only solution to this. Today we didn’t hear much about these kinds of stories in our near surroundings but like everything it will undeniably increase. From tomorrow employees will start to praise their work, team and certainly flatter the H.R just to make them aware that they are into their jobs with at most zeal even though they may not like it from inside. Firing can stop social networking, twittering and blogging but not emotions. Those will always be there inside a person’s heart. H.R should go into depth regarding this, might be the job is not as interesting as it could have been thought of. H.R should try to look into the employees’ problem and I think that is one of the prime duties of H.R.
Some say:
Flatter me, I may not believe u
Hate me, I may not need u
Love me so that I m forced to love u back….
What’s on your mind?
Halt! Halt! Halt!
Think before updating/uploading….
You could be ‘FIRED’
I would like to thank Mr. Parag Jagdale for enlightening me with this happening going around the globe and preventing me to become a victim of it.I would also thank Mr. Siddharth Jain, Miss Khushboo Jain and Mr. Puneet Goyal for helping me.
CNN interviewing the girl from Essex
Halt! Halt! Halt!
Think before updating ….
You could be…………………….
Once I received a message on my cell phone-‘I love facebook but I hate to face my book’. I would like to remind you friends that at least there is some privacy in what you have written in book but is that the same case with facebook? Is your privacy retained within yourselves and kept it safe in your shelf?
If you are thinking that yes, then circulate your mind once again. Think! (Once more) Think! Think!( last time)
I will come to this question later, but first I want to avert your mind towards the worst consequence that automatically results when one’s privacy is lost and misused on social networking site ‘Your snaps/ videos can be edited and can be published on internet’. What about getting fired, yup, you heard it right, FIRED!, FIRED from your dream job…..
What happened? Is your mind filled with queries? How can this be possible? Lets widen our spectrum and know how ‘WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND’ can pink-slip us from our company. What are the strategies that are being followed by the company to keep a check on us?
H.R dept. found out a new way for sleuthing us- Creating a fake profile and sending the friendship request to the employees (us), if accepted- The Job is done. All ours ‘WHAT’S ON YOUR MIND’ stuff and the snaps we upload now acts as a tool for background monitoring for them. Let’s have a look at some real life cases:
CASE #1
A 16-year old girl from Essex, England was fired after her boss saw her Facebook status after her first day of on the job. It read:
first day at work. omg!! So dull!!
Her boss had added her mysteriously and after reading the status he felt that if she was so bored on the first day of work, it would not be a good fit in the long run and ultimately she was fired. She then told to CNN ‘Facebook is dead for her’.
CASE #2
An intern at Anglo Irish Bank was fired due to a photo posted on his Facebook.
Kevin Colvin (intern) emailed his bosses late in the day of Halloween, letting them know he would not be able to attend work due to a family emergency in New York. When his boss, Paul Davis, received the email the following day he checked his interns Facebook, and what did he find was an obscene photograph of him in which Kevin was enjoying the Halloween party. David responded with the following message:
“Thanks for letting me know–hope everything is OK in New York. (cool wand)”
The email thread between Kevin Colvin and his boss Paul Davis are now being emailed around the internet, really hurting Colvin’s online reputation.
Now let me come to the question which I left unanswered in beginning. Where is the privacy? Where is the personal life? Where is that ‘Right to Privacy Act’? Everything peters out when it comes to FACEBOOK or any other social networking medium like Twitter, Orkut and even Blogs. But the point is that is it right doing this? Is it correct firing the employees? Is it the only solution?
I know in these cases the employees were wrong at their positions, as they openly spoke their heart out against something that is helping them to make their future better, rather than trying to make their work interesting. They have chosen this job, it’s their duty to dedicate themselves entirely into it and embrace every kind of problems they have to face in it. On the other hand I am not satisfied with the steps that H.R takes. There could be many alternatives for it. Firing is not the only solution to this. Today we didn’t hear much about these kinds of stories in our near surroundings but like everything it will undeniably increase. From tomorrow employees will start to praise their work, team and certainly flatter the H.R just to make them aware that they are into their jobs with at most zeal even though they may not like it from inside. Firing can stop social networking, twittering and blogging but not emotions. Those will always be there inside a person’s heart. H.R should go into depth regarding this, might be the job is not as interesting as it could have been thought of. H.R should try to look into the employees’ problem and I think that is one of the prime duties of H.R.
Some say:
Flatter me, I may not believe u
Hate me, I may not need u
Love me so that I m forced to love u back….
What’s on your mind?
Halt! Halt! Halt!
Think before updating/uploading….
You could be ‘FIRED’
I would like to thank Mr. Parag Jagdale for enlightening me with this happening going around the globe and preventing me to become a victim of it.I would also thank Mr. Siddharth Jain, Miss Khushboo Jain and Mr. Puneet Goyal for helping me.
CNN interviewing the girl from Essex
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