wife suspended

[hypochondriac]

DO NOT EVER' date=' EVER put anything about your work/job/career on Farcebook. [b']NOT EVER, NEVER[/b]. In fact, as a teacher, she should have known better. It's something strictly for kids and those unable to communicate normally. No offence, you understand.... 8-)

 

Now I just assumed that everyone knew this. Maybe I am wrong.

[suewhistle]

I'm with you hypo. I'm on FB but limited to rellies, close friends and mainly musician aquaintances. I'm a teacher and have never had colleagues as friends and in any case i'd limit myself to uncontroversial statements like "Hurrah, it's the end of term". Never have mind, but you see what I mean.

 

As I teach English perhaps I'm a bit more circumspect in my use of words such as "friend". I wouldn't consider a friend anyone who betrayed a confidence. What if you vented in the pub to such a person, would they then pass on the information?

 

Foolish but not grounds for dismissal from the evidence at hand.

[RedAndWhite91]

I have over 700 friends on facebook, lot of work people too so have to be careful what I write, common sense really.

[EastleighSoulBoy]

I have 98 'friends' on FB. Many I know from either Soul Nights or Football.

 

The closest of them are family, or those so close I could, reservedly, regard as family.

 

Despite the care I exercise over my contacts I would not committ to type anything which I would not be prepared to say in public.

 

Over the years I have erred, as we all do, sometimes paid the price and sometimes not.

 

The loss of a job over a comment on FB may seem unfair but, as disastrous as it is to the one under threat, is proof that not all one's 'friends' can rightly, or deservedly, be actually called that.

 

I sincerely hope that the young lady in question learns her lesson and also that it can all be sorted before she loses a career opportunity because of it.

[Patrick Bateman]

I got a call earlier today from my wife saying that she has been suspended from her job as an English teacher and head of media, as well as a union rep where a report has divided some of the teachers. There are loads of problems at the school she is at and two others have been suspended for different reasons.

 

She is a very hard working teacher and gives 100% to her job, and also loves it. This is her career.

 

The reason she has been suspended is because she gets frustrated about the way the school is run and the other teachers not pulling their weight. She has ranted on facebook and slagged off some senior management about the effort, and even though this was when she was really down in the dumps and working late back in March, this has just come up. She has been dropped in it by one of her facebook 'friends' which makes it worse.

 

She is also leaving the school for a higher standard school in 3 weeks, and they do this. Why not just let her leave?

 

She is worried about what might happen and that is could stop her getting the new dream job. This is her career and future we are talking about and a few rants on facebook.

 

I know there are teachers on here, just wanted your thoughts.

 

Absolutely no help, but why on earth write ANYTHING on Facebook? It is the public domain, just as this is.

Also, Facebook and Twitter (and indeed most forums) are sh*t anyway.

[Hatch]

I don't have a single work/professional friend on facebook for purely all the reasons stated above.

 

maybe I would if I was 21 and an office junior or whatever, but not in a job with some significance of responsibility.

 

Two Lives - work and private - I'm a schizo.