More on Employer Asking for Facebook Password

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diane 

A teacher's aide has lost her job because she refused to hand over her Facebook password to school officials.

 

Grade School Teacher's Aide Fired

 

Found this interesting:

 

 

 

I love that Facebook is saying you have the right not to comply with your employer's request, but are they going to do anything about it when a person gets fired over it.

 

Something needs to change quickly so people do not lose their jobs over this.

Yes true, its a double edge sword.  You either give up your right to privacy, OR lose your job.  Or you won't gain a potential one. AS far as I have been hearing this coming to the top of the list for congress to adress.

Though I agree with the right to prvacy, I'm not sure what I would do. I like to retain my privacy, but I have nothing to hide either.  I don't post anything truly revealing on facebook. but it is my own little private getaway so I can connect wtih friends and long distance family.  Its not interesting.  But its MINE.  My husband doesn't even have my facebook password.

For an interesting side of this, google Janice Daniels, the mayor of the city of Troy, MI.

I used to work for that city, as did DH, and he grew up there. She just became Mayor in November & now there is a major recall effort going on against her. She has made a number of major missteps, but it all started in Nov/Dec when a homophobic post was found on her facebook. Since then, she's just put her foot in it more and more.

Quote:

Originally Posted by calimari 

For an interesting side of this, google Janice Daniels, the mayor of the city of Troy, MI.

 

I used to work for that city, as did DH, and he grew up there. She just became Mayor in November & now there is a major recall effort going on against her. She has made a number of major missteps, but it all started in Nov/Dec when a homophobic post was found on her facebook. Since then, she's just put her foot in it more and more.

yeah but, thats her stupidity.  don't post anything on facebook that will come back to bite you in the butt!!  I'm always careful about what I put on facebook, and if its not something I would say to someone's face, I won't post it.

Hester posted a picture of a co-workers' shoes and pants bunched around her ankles on Facebook in April 2011 with the caption, "Thinking of you." ... One of the supervisors from the Lewis Cass Intermediate School District (ISD), the regional service center for education in Michigan, even wrote her a letter when she refused to give them her password for the third time. Part of the letter read: "... in the absence of you voluntarily granting Lewis Cass ISD administration access to you[r] Facebook page, we will assume the worst and act accordingly."

I'm confused. What is "the worst" that the school district is assuming?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diane 

Plus, she isn't in trouble for not giving anyone her password. She's in trouble for the remarks she made that many people have seen--which wasn't private once she posted it to I'm sure what amounted to a whole lot of people.

 

This teacher's aide didn't get fired for what she posted but for not giving her password.

 I know it's not about her password; I posted it as a matter of interest, and as it relates to the aspect that anyone might post something that could be considered offensive to someone else.

I while the picture may be considered bad taste besides it being a co-worker I don't think this had anything to do with the school. If it was a girlfriend from outside of her job would the school have put up such a fuss? Some might say well a friend is different than a co-worker but what if you were friends before, or were close friends after what is the difference? If all it said was thinking of you and nothing implying anything else then there isn't really anything that is the school's business.  I  guess I really don't know what it is that the school was trying to get to. They also made a mistake by spelling out what they were doing and why. That will help her win a lawsuit.

Quote:

Originally Posted by aliadam 

I won't get into the whether she should be fired or not debate, but what I will comment on is the incredible stupidity of some people with what they post on facebook. Like it or not, when things are on the internet they no longer are private. I don't find what she wrote that bad personally although obviously a parent of a student at the school did. So it did impact the school whether that was her original intent or not. But I know people who have complained about their job or their coworkers on facebook and then been surprised when someone said something to them about it. DUH! Don't be so dumb as to do that. I have someone on my facebook who worked for a pharmacy dispensing drugs and was constantly posting about legalizing maijuana and how her bipolar disease was out of control. I just wouldn't put that stuff on facebook if I thought it might affect my job. Just seems so dumb to me.

I agree this, I also think it is stupid to be friends with a parent. There are some teachers (and probably aids) that are friends with students and I do not think that is a good idea either.