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    How you make friends and influence your boss...

    One of these days I'm gonna have to learn how to post pictures! Here's a verbatim (edited only for language) of a forum thread;

    OP: [name redacted] OMG I HATE MY JOB!! My boss is a total pervvy [expletive] always making me do [expletive] stuff just to [expletive] me off!! [EXPLETIVE]!
    Yesterday at 18:03

    Reply: [name redacted] Hi [name redacted], i guess you forgot about adding me on here?
    Firstly, don't flatter your yourself. Secondly, you've worked here 5 months and didn't work out that I'm gay? I know i don't prance around the office like a queen, but it's not exactly a secret. Thirdly, that '[expletive] stuff' is called your 'job', you know, what i pay you to do. But the fact that you seem able to [expletive]-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 you P45 in the post, and you can come in whever you like to pick up any stuff you've left here. And yes, I'm serious
    Yesterday at 22:53
    Made me chuckle

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by ajones View Post
    One of these days I'm gonna have to learn how to post pictures! Here's a verbatim (edited only for language) of a forum thread;



    Made me chuckle
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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    made me lol
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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Thats genius, tough justice & rightly so! Did you blank out the name or did the pic come like that?

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    And this is why social networking is bad!

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    This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    And this is why social networking is bad!
    my boss is on my friends list... you just have to remember not to put stuff about work or ur boss in ur status.... skiving definately doesnt wanna go on there... im sure i saw someone else suffer the same fate from putting something about them skiving and thier boss saw it, or a collegue dobbed them in

    stupidity was the root cause of this incident... not social networking...
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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by mmh View Post
    stupidity was the root cause of this incident... not social networking...
    +1

    If you're stupid enough to have your boss on facebook at least moan about them in another language, latin and esperanto used to be my personal favourites

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by Knoxville View Post
    +1

    If you're stupid enough to have your boss on facebook at least moan about them in another language, latin and esperanto used to be my personal favourites
    Except why should you surrender your freedom of expression? After all, the post doesn't name the place of work, nor the person involved. Why should someone be held to account for simply letting off some steam on a filtered list that the boss only saw because she'd added him to her list of friends?

    It's unreasonable to expect that people must follow company policy 24/7, whether or not they choose to be social with their co-workers and superiors.

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    This is bunny and friends. He is fed up waiting for everyone to help him out, and decided to help himself instead!

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by Andehh View Post
    Thats genius, tough justice & rightly so! Did you blank out the name or did the pic come like that?
    Finlay666 has kindly linked the original graphic. The names were already removed, I only edited the language.

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    Office politics. Free expression or not, everyone should have a list of folks they want to keep happy, a list of folks that are friends, and a list of folks to be careful with. Your boss whould be on the latter!

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Very, VERY funny...and +1 on the causal factor being stupidity rather than social networking.

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    Except why should you surrender your freedom of expression? After all, the post doesn't name the place of work, nor the person involved. Why should someone be held to account for simply letting off some steam on a filtered list that the boss only saw because she'd added him to her list of friends?

    It's unreasonable to expect that people must follow company policy 24/7, whether or not they choose to be social with their co-workers and superiors.
    She didn't surrender it - she used it - and so did her boss.
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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    also i doubt she was doing that well, your not going to fire someone for JUST posting a rant. If you had your probation stretched out to 6 months, then you might well be on thin ice already.
    throw new ArgumentException (String, String, Exception)

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucio View Post
    Except why should you surrender your freedom of expression? After all, the post doesn't name the place of work, nor the person involved. Why should someone be held to account for simply letting off some steam on a filtered list that the boss only saw because she'd added him to her list of friends?

    It's unreasonable to expect that people must follow company policy 24/7, whether or not they choose to be social with their co-workers and superiors.
    Agreed mate it's very unreasonable but social networking sites actually had their own special section on my last contract and it seems to be heading that way for many companies at the moment.

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    Re: How you make friends and influence your boss...

    Quote Originally Posted by finlay666 View Post
    Awesome!

    I love the way he's still sounds victorious, even in defeat!

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