El. Oh. El. You gotta be some sort of stupid to friend your boss before your probation period is up. Fired in front of friends and family? PRICELESS. - Anika

She's a f*ing idiot. A similar thing happened to a friend of mine at an ad agency, who accidentally texted "my boss is a fucking cunt" ... to her boss. She didn't get fired or reprimanded, but she freaked out about it. - LANjackal

It floors me how much people openly vent about their jobs on public feeds like FriendFeed. Even if your boss isn't a direct contact, how are people so sure that a boss or co-worker won't stumble across it? - Mike Doeff from iPhone

If I have complaints about work, I try to mask them as much as possible or make them more about me personally than the job itself. At the same time, I really try to stay mum about any job I have.. - Jonathan Hardesty

Mike and how are you so sure that other people don't know who you are talking about? There's a person here on FriendFeed who complains about their coworker. Even though I live in a different city, I know that coworker. - Anika

+1 Anika. I generally refrain from talking bad about my employer/coworkers ANYWHERE online. Even on anonymous accounts. You just never know who might freak out and file an unmasking court order. It's happened before. - LANjackal from IM

Maybe the more general rule that comes into play here is to never say anything about someone you wouldn't tell them to their face. - Ken Sheppardson

Well said Ken. - Benjamin Taylor

What an idiot... When people claim we don't need guidelines for employees using social media, I just have to point out cases of extreme stupidity like this... - Badger Gravling

this is huge! - Loic Le Meur

OH those lessons learned the hard way. - anna sauce

This is great! Don't bite the hand that feeds especially if you're friends on FB. - Gabe Diaz from iPhone

Why friend your boss in the first place, especially if all you do is complain about the job? - Adrian McMillan

Ouch… :P - Daniel Schildt

Well someone has to make room for other people! From the sounds of it, she was probably already canned anyway. - Robert Fisher

Well that was a bit dumb. The thing about social media is it's just so much a part of our lives. We are encouraged to pour our views and feelings into it but we have to remember who is going to be reading it. In the end we have to censor ourselves so as a result our lifestream is a watered down stream. There are no directors cuts. - Parvez Halim

Absolutely priceless! - Robert Couture

Oh and I forgot the LOL. - Parvez Halim

this is something that may occur very often. More than we think! - Rui

@Rui I remember a colleague of mine did a similar thing. Luckily they got away with a written warning and no pay rise for that year. - Parvez Halim

HUGE! - Nathan Guetta

Interestingly, every time I consider complaining about my job via any social media platform, I stop and think "how can I make my job better? how can I improve myself?" and then end up writing about that instead. It has made me a much happier person. Really. - mike fabio

OMG ! this is awesome - Franck Nouyrigat

OUCH! - Retno Nindya

.. and that's why I'm private. I'm pretty good about not talking about work, but never know when I may say something completely stupid - Rodfather

I think there is a serious point here: Your on-line social network pals will be supportive of you regardless of whether you are right or wrong. That's what friends are for, kind of. All the boss does is let in a bit of reality. - sjjh

Maybe she wanted to be fired by her boss? Just questioning... - Torsten Eckert

Splendid. Too bad the story isn't real. OR IS IT...? - Francesco Balducci

haha! - orionstarr

Where did you get this? I'm trying to verify that it is actually a real event. Looks too 'perfect' and to generate this much hype I believe it is just two friends that wanted to laugh about how stupid the world is... - Brian J. Reeves

I wondered the same myself. The language suggests it's from the UK - LANjackal from IM

... or somewhere else where the British style of speech dominates - LANjackal from IM

April - you can't imagine how many people e-mailed me screenshots of this :) - Charlie Anzman

I wish I was here in order to press the "Like" button. - Clément Cailly

social media and your boss don't mix well :) - Dave Q

Zing! - Nick Mutton