Employee gets written up by HR for posting about disliking Mondays on personal social media account: 'Someone in the office is creeping on my social media'
cheezburger.com
There are a number of reasons why HR might reprimand you for something… but this seems a bit far-fetched. Here, we have an employee who, like any other twenty-something employee in the 2020s, has a personal social media account where they post photos with friends and the occasional relatable memes. This past weekend, the employee shared a relatively benign photo of their friend group grabbing drinks on a Saturday night. There was nothing inappropriate documented that could come back to bite the…

Because of crap like this is why I haven’t been on any mainstream social media for 7+ years. And where do companies get off going over employees’ personal crap anyway? For the record, I believe EVERYONE hates Mondays.

  • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    lemmy has taught me that any platform that touts itself as “general interest” is suspicious because it means that they have an interest attracting as many people as possible regardless of whether or not there’s any reason for them to be on there.

    like today’s tech companies; they want you to become dependent to some degree on their platform to use your attention as leverage for advertisements and investors so that you’ll be less likely to leave the platform.

    another revenue stream that they leverage your captive attention for is for data harvesting and you need lots of people to make it worthwhile (hence the “general interest”) and when that happens, your employers; HRIS/candidate tracking systems; and your government can also purchase that data too and know what you’re up to like in the examples that this article shows.

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 days ago

      I keep pushing as many people as possible in my life away from all these dangers (I genuinely consider them actual dangers) precisely because of that. It’s mind blowing how most people just don’t care, until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.

      • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        3 days ago

        … until they find themselves in a spot like this one, and even then, they don’t even reassess the potential consequences of remaining inside those environments.

        the most recent version i’ve seen of this are my colleague software developers who don’t give a rat’s ass about the impact that their work will have on humanity so long as they keep getting paid almost a quarter of a millions dollars per year to pay for their investments and put their children is the best possible schools.

        i think that external pressures will always force a person-vs-person conflict like your and my example to enable the goals of the platform.

        • youmaynotknow@lemmy.mlOP
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          3 days ago

          I guess that’s the price we pay for living in a mostly capitalist world. It sucks though. At least I’ve been able to keep my kids out of those things for 11 and 9 years. That alone I consider a win.