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Was this social media editor fired for being too racist?

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/twitter-facebook-together-292994/) I haven’t covered a social media firing in a while. Here’s one I read about yesterday. It’s a doozy! Laura Wagner reporting at Deadspin’s The Concourse has more on the story (here): Yesterday, HuffPost fired a recently hired, Los Angeles-based social media editor after her managers…

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If you could only listen to one HR-compliance podcast episode…

Font Awesome Free 5.2.0 by @fontawesome – https://fontawesome.com [CC BY 4.0]Let’s do something a little different today. I’m giving my typing fingers (and your reading eyes) a little extra R&R. Last week I hung out with my HR friend Ira Wolfe and his co-host, Keith Campagna, to discuss a variety…

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Believe it or not, there’s a good reason why one employer must pay $100K to a worker it fired for racist Facebook posts

By Highway Patrol Images (Code 3 combination LED & rotating beacons) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia CommonsHold on, let me proofread that. Employee makes racist Facebook posts, and company must pay him $100,000. Yep, that’s it. How’s that work anyway? Everton Bailey, Jr., writing at the Oregonian, explains: An…

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Would-be NASA intern gets vulgar with another Twitter user — turns out he’s a NASA legend — promptly loses internship

Here’s a pro tip for you: The next time you land an awesome internship, avoid exchanging tweets similar to the redacted ones in the screenshot up there. Especially with someone who is on the council that oversees the company with which you just received the internship. This pro tip applies…

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Could an unhealthy Snapchat selfie addiction spiral into an ADA workplace disability?

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/snapchat-mobile-phone-social-media-1374859/) A recent American Medical Association study suggests that it could. What is Snapchat? (f/k/a “It’s nice to see you surface from under that rock.”) For those who aren’t familiar with Snapchat, it’s a smartphone app that allows users to share pictures and short movies briefly before…

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Will I see you at EEOC EXCEL today? It should be EXCELLENT! (See what I did there?)

Source: https://eeotraining.eeoc.gov Yep, it’s that time of year. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Training Institute is hosting its Examining Conflicts in Employment Laws (EXCEL) Training Conference in Washington, DC.  The EEOC touts EXCEL as “the premier national training conference for federal and private sector EEO managers, supervisors, practitioners, HR professionals, attorneys and Alternative…

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It appears that, yes, you can be fired for flipping off President Trump’s motorcade.

By dbking (Presidential Motorcade, PA Ave NW) [CC BY 2.0 ], via Wikimedia CommonsRemember the woman who… flipped off President Trump’s motorcade, got photographed in the act, became a viral sensation, got fired from her job, and sued claiming a violation of public policy. Whatever happened to that lawsuit? According to multiple…

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Racist posts on Facebook are apparently a really bad look for an HR professional. #shrm18

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/social-social-networks-1206612/) I use the term “professional” loosely. That is to say, not at all. “Roseanne Barr, hold my drink,” is what I picture a former Human Resources Supervisor for a Fortune 50 company saying to herself before she allegedly went all racist in a recent Facebook post…

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What I have for you today is even better than a Bryan Colangelo post-mortem!

Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/shirt-dress-white-clothes-clothing-2345417/) My thorough rundown of all things Bryan Colangelo will have to wait until next week when I serve as a guest contributor to the Philadelphia Business Journal. Today, however, I’ve got your hook up! On Wednesday, Pamela Wolf, J.D. of Wolters Kluwer moderated a webinar entitled Check-In: EEOC, DOL,…

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Meanwhile, a former company executive was apparently fired because of his wife’s tweets

Image Credit: publicdomainpictures.net (https://www.publicdomainpictures.net/en/view-image.php?image=255568&picture=twitter-social-media-application) In case you missed it, last Friday I slipped into the vortex to detail the amazing story of the 76ers’ president of basketball operations and general manager, Bryan Colangelo, and five Twitter burner accounts with which he may be associated. Several of these accounts were used to talk…