Employee gets written up by HR for posting about disliking Mondays on personal social media account: 'Someone in the office is creeping on my social media'
cheezburger.com
There are a number of reasons why HR might reprimand you for something… but this seems a bit far-fetched. Here, we have an employee who, like any other twenty-something employee in the 2020s, has a personal social media account where they post photos with friends and the occasional relatable memes. This past weekend, the employee shared a relatively benign photo of their friend group grabbing drinks on a Saturday night. There was nothing inappropriate documented that could come back to bite the…

Because of crap like this is why I haven’t been on any mainstream social media for 7+ years. And where do companies get off going over employees’ personal crap anyway? For the record, I believe EVERYONE hates Mondays.

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
    13·
    1 year ago

    I left my final mainstream social media with the Reddit API debacle back in 2023. And before that, I left Facebook and Twitter in 2018.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    You mean, there are places that don’t monitor their employees’ social media accounts to compare against?

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      I believe my company doesn’t, but maybe it’s just that I don’t have Amy which allowed me to live blissfully unaware that they do 😁

      • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        The last three or four companies I’ve worked for did. Usually a month or so in HR would want to know why I didn’t tell them about my birbsite account. They also usually asked why I didn’t update my LinkedIn page to say I was working there now.

  • corvus@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    Social Media is not the only problem, it’s far worse than that and you will not solve it leaving social media. Your employers get all the information about you from what is called ‘data brokers’ which are the ones who buy the data collected by all the apps that you install in your phone and sell it to everyone interested, not only companies trying to sell you something, but also employers like the case you posted and also state agencies, who dodge in this way breaking the law by spying you. That’s the big business of data collection. Here an investigation made by german journalists How data brokers sell our location data

      • corvus@lemmy.ml
        6·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, the solution to apps selling your data is using only free software, the only problem that still remains is that your mobile network provider also sells your location data.

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlOP
          5·
          1 year ago

          Yeah. The solution to that is using WiFi all over, but that’s not feasible for most people. That’s the 1 thing I’m still stuck with. There’s no 2 ways about it. Either you keep feeding your location to your mobile service provider to have internet everywhere, or you sacrifice that convenience and go completely dark. Fortunately the option of VOIP for voice calls instead of a voice Sim is available, which lessens the issue a bit. I use JMP.chat for that. Seriously thinking about getting their data Sim as well.

  • Matt@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    The only mainstream social network I use is Instagram for class group chat.

    I’m still waiting for LineageOS for SM-A536B though.