Title: Judge forces employers to rehire workers who vented on facebook
Link to Article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/09/07/judge-forces-employer-to-rehire-workers-who-vented-on-facebook/
Synopsis: A Judge in New York has forced a Non-profit organization to rehire five employees who had been fired after posting complaints about the organization on their personal facebooks.
Employees who frequently social network probably have the most interest in this, because there have been many employees over the past few years that have maybe lost their jobs or been reprimanded because of something that showed up on their facebook profile or any other social networking site they may use. So by these people not getting fired after complaining about their jobs through a post on facebook, it might make others feel better about not having too worry about everything you post on facebook being maybe a reason for you too lose your job.
When it comes to social or ethical issues on this matter, I feel like it is un-ethical for people to lose their jobs over something posted on facebook. People are hired because of their qualifications and their ability to perform a certain job, and if they are doing that job the way it is supposed to be done, something on their facebook shouldn't cause them too lose their job.
I think this effects two areas of impact - Business and Employment but also Art, Entertainment and Leisure. The reasons it affects both is because people are using facebook for entertainment and leisure, but if they post the wrong thing or the wrong person sees it, than that will affect their Business and employment, with the worst case scenario being that they lose their job.
Personally, I don't feel like it affects me yet. Since I am in school still and don't have a business career yet I can't relate exactly to the situation of having to use descretion when posting on facebook. But I think that it could be related to the situation if colleges were too decline me from their school because of a facebook post they saw.
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