I'm considering buying insurance from Aflac now

[karadinart]

The company with it's iconic duck mascot has fired comedian Gilbert Gottfried for making jokes about the disaster in Japan on his twitter account.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/03/14/georgia.aflac.duck/index.html?iref=NS1

seriously people? I'm tired of hearing about celebs getting in trouble by being stupid on Twitter and Facebook, but maybe it's an abject lesson.

Today in a radio program so many people called in to say they had lost jobs, or been denied jobs because of making statements in their Facebook accounts or Tweets.

Comments

[goodbyemyfancy.livejournal.com]

I was glad to see he got fired. I was so pissed at him.

[akiyoshie.livejournal.com]

Personally, I don't get why companies even go through the trouble of seeing what their employees post on social sites. I seriously doubt they are going to sell the company's secrets, but nonetheless, those who are complaining about losing or not getting jobs must have missed the memo.

The news has told people over and over for months to watch what you post on those sites, employers WILL read them and you CAN get fired or denied a job. People have actually been busted and put in jail just for posting stuff, so it should be obvious that if the police is looking, so are employers.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I've never put very personal stuff public online, I like relative anonymity, it appalls me what some of my young friends put up, and the response tends to be 'big deal or everyone does it' *sigh*