What you post on Facebook affects your hiring/promotion/legal outcome?

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ripnbst

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My response to this is rather simple. Don't post dumb **** on your FB page and you will be fine. I see people who post about smoking weed, or banging chicks, or talk like a sailor...well what did you expect?

With the correct privacy settings and using the mush inside your head it's not rocket science to have a FB page that doesn't get you in trouble. Don't be an idiot and you're fine. I've never met an employer who would fire someone because of their political allegiances, so long as the posts weren't slanderous.
 

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My response to this is rather simple. Don't post dumb **** on your FB page and you will be fine. I see people who post about smoking weed, or banging chicks, or talk like a sailor...well what did you expect?

With the correct privacy settings and using the mush inside your head it's not rocket science to have a FB page that doesn't get you in trouble. Don't be an idiot and you're fine. I've never met an employer who would fire someone because of their political allegiances, so long as the posts weren't slanderous.

Umm, we had a thread about firing people who voted for Obama. The general consenus was that is ok.

Only sailors can talk like sailors, the others are posers. Id show ya but id get banned and you would blush, lol.
 
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Unless you have a written employment agreement guaranteeing you a specific term, Oklahoma is an at-will employment state. In other words, employers generally can fire you at any time and for any reason (the only exceptions to this are federally protected reasons, such as firing you because you are old, a minority, handicapped, etc.). So it really doesn't matter if they don't like you facebook posts, or they don't like the way you parted your hair that day, they can fire you and its perfectly legal.

Its interesting to see how facebook posts are going to be used against people in court. Oklahoma hasn't addressed this, but I saw a case from another jurisdiction recently talking about your private posts versus if your posts are public, can what is used in there be used as evidence in Court. It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the future.
 

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