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I don't think she destroyed her career but she certainly got fired. A colleague took a week off for a personal emergency and posted pictures of herself in Hawaii on social media.
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If your boss follows you on social media, be aware of your holiday posts.
Maybe this sounds elementary, but mixing business with pleasure never works out. And if you're going to lie about a “personal emergency” and instead use your last-minute PTO for a luxury trip to Hawaii, maybe block your boss from your stories that week. Or not. And then you'll see your career dissolve in the transparent, tropical waters of your Hawaiian vacation just moments before hopping on your return flight back to the real world.
Talk about a whiplash moment for this clumsily unprepared employee. Perhaps she didn't need this job after all…
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Businessman went on a business trip to Korea and used his professional email to brag about “getting with every hot Korean girl he sees” to his friends. Also bragged about his expensive abode being paid by the company and using his boss’s Porsche to drive around.
Was terminated as soon as he returned and owed the company an apology IIRC
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This kid I worked with for a week at a sales job who tried to buy [illicit substances] off of a customer because, and I quote, "I don't know. They looked like they might have em."
They did not. But they did have the number to corporate
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One of the managers I worked with. He was visiting a company site in another country. He went to a club, and then onto a private room for a dance, whatever etc. ecause he was travelling on work business, he of course claimed these costs on a company expense claim. We never saw him again.
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A guy my mom worked with called in sick and then was in the background of the picture on the front page of the paper at winefest. Someone posted it on tje break room bulletin board but they took it down
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That executive at Cambells for saying that their food is for poor people while someone was recording.
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In the UK there is/was a man called Gerald Ratner. He was the boss of Ratner’s jewellers. Was caught on camera saying something to the effect of “Our jewellery is cheap tat bought by tasteless morons.” Ratner’s was around for about 20 minutes after that. Hilarious.
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She wrote an e-book on how she and her partner moved to Bali illegally by overstaying her visa to basically live the rich and pampered life because she's a rich American compared to Indonesian citizens. She promoted it all over twitter and got deported.
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The coworker who tweeted that our telecommunications company was making a huge mistake by not offering mobile and instead refocusing on internet. He forgot that our VP was following him on Twitter.
He got the last laugh, though. The company finally entered the mobile market by buying a smaller company, for a LOT of money, and it was too late. They got absorbed by a competitor. I had been laid off years before, so had a giggle at that.
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Those two northwest airlines pilots that overflew their destination by like an hour before the cabin crew asked what was going on.
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I was a second year professor in physics when I flunked the starting center from the university basketball team even after a meeting with the athletic director, the dean, my department head and the university president.
IThey laid me off 4 months later, I had to become a programmer.
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The gal who didn't like the company issued laptop IT gave her
So she used her company P Card to buy a "pretty" laptop from Best Buy.
She brought it to us, we looked at her like a 3rd arm was growing out of her forehead.
It was over a thousand dollars, a capital expense, and wasn't pre-approved, so she was canned.
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Ashlee Simpson
When the wrong song played over the speakers on SNL, her band got it and saved themselves by playing Pieces of Me for a second time. Ashlee panicked, never got the hint from her band, and kept thinking "I can't sing the same song twice!" and instead jumped off stage and blamed her band after the commercial break
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