facebook rant gets girl the sack

'There but for the grace of god....'

The perils of forgetting who your facebook friends are were brought home for one user recently.

A worker called "Lindsay", updated her status with "OMG I HATE MY JOB!!"

She went on: "My boss is a total pervy ******, always making me do ****stuff just to **** me off!! ******!"

Unfortunately for her said boss was a facebook friend and his response was: "Hi Lindsay, I guess you forgot about adding me on here?"

"Firstly, don't flatter yourself. Secondly, you've worked here 5 months and didn't work out that I'm gay? Thirdly, that 's**t stuff' is called your 'job', you know, what I pay you to do. But the fact that you seem to be able to f**k up the simplest of tasks might contribute to how you feel about it.

"And lastly, you also seem to have forgotten that you have 2 weeks left on your 6 month trial period. Don't bother coming in tomorrow.

"I'll pop your P45 in the post and you can come in whenever you like to pick up any stuff you've left here. And yes, I'm serious."

Easily done - many of us have added people, promptly forgot and six months later posted something which causes offence.

The whole issue brings the issue of how to keep your private life just that.

People seem happy to live their lives in full glare of all and sundry - most not even bothering with even the most rudimentary privacy settings.

And they are also more keen on adding to their 'friends' tally without properly thinking about potential problems.

Do you turn down your boss' friend request and would it be rude not to request them to be your friend?

Making the right decision could save you from the sack!