3 Tweets to Get You Fired..in 140 Characters or Less

First people were getting Myspace fired, then they were getting Facebook fired…and then there was Twitter.  There is no doubt that Twitter is the hottest thing in Social Media at the moment, the idea being that you spout out whatever is on your mind…which can sometimes get you in trouble or even fired.  After all, you never know who is looking at your tweets!

140 Words or Less

Sure, there have been times when you may have been in the worst mood and didn’t even blink when you typed up your 140 character message to the rest of the twitterverse- or there may have been the time when, in your drunken stupor, you wrote something totally incoherent and moderately offensive, but now the tables have turned.  As Twitter has quickly climbed the ranks to win the social media popularity contest, more employers are now well versed in the Twitter language and can “tweet” with the best of them.  That being said, don’t think for a second that there’s no way your boss can find you on Twitter-or worse- that he/she can find out exactly what you think of your job and/or the people you work with. How do you think an employer would feel reading the following tweets?

5 Tweets Best Left Un-Tweeted

Sometimes you have to learn to keep your thoughts to yourself…or at least off of Twitter.  The following is a brief list of the aforementioned:

1. Boredom- Tweeting about how bored you are at work is not a good thing. Duh.  If anything, it alerts your employer and makes him or her believe that you don’t have enough work to keep you busy. After all, what are they paying you for?!
2. Anger- Things that are said in anger (especially regarding your job in today’s economic climate) are almost guaranteed to come back to bite you.  If you’re feeling a little grumpy about work or your boss, write it in your journal-not on the Internet.
3. Trash Talk- Remember that saying about how if you don’t have anything nice to say, you shouldn’t say anything at all? Riiight.