Facebook incident with colleagues?

xapprenticex

Jlawson118 wrote: »

One of the assistant managers blocked me, meaning I can't delete my initial comments which lands me in deeper water, but keeping my head down right now really seems like the best idea right now.

The assistant manager who started this is rather young but the rest are quite old. I just wanted to try and fit in with them and have banter but this has actually been a big life lesson to me now, just seriously keep my head down

I was going to say, this sounds like a warehouse job to me, if they were in any way professional young manager guy would have been sacked by now and if the older ones are doing nothing about it then... i really dont know.

Keep your head down and find something better, he/they CLEARLY have a personal issue with you.

Jlawson118

xapprenticex wrote: »

I was going to say, this sounds like a warehouse job to me, if they were in any way professional young manager guy would have been sacked by now and if the older ones are doing nothing about it then... i really dont know.

Keep your head down and find something better, he/they CLEARLY have a personal issue with you.

I'll stick my head down and ride it out until I've finished university at least. I get on with most people in there and have a good laugh, I'm assuming it's just these few who have an issue. They've posted something this morning tagging me in it and I've just ignored it, and plan to carry on with that

xapprenticex

Jlawson118 wrote: »

I'll stick my head down and ride it out until I've finished university at least. I get on with most people in there and have a good laugh, I'm assuming it's just these few who have an issue. They've posted something this morning tagging me in it and I've just ignored it, and plan to carry on with that

Good job, they tagged you again..... some people are unbelievable. Yes, ignore it 100%. Looks like they are trying to bully you. Bear in mind, being at uni may make some people think that they probably havent done much. Being a uni student seems to be riling them up.

Leo2020

xapprenticex wrote: »

The second mistake was getting tagged into something, Ive seen people get sacked from getting tagged into things, i dont know if this is your fault or theirs, i dnt know how it all works.

Any of a persons friends can tag them in something unless you change the setttings in Facebook. Very harsh to get sacked because a friend tagged you in something but like you say you don't know how it works I would guess many employers don't either and might think the person tagged themselves (which you can also do).

getmore4less

In the old days students did silly stuff, the union mags were full of the "pranks" with pics and names, these mags were the facebook of the day with a small circulation, no permanent record.

Facebook can destroy your life.

Mag==rag as they were known.

Marvel1

Check your Facebook settings to avoid being tagged.

AquaGirl

I've seen this kind of thing before. It's why i have a very very small number of work friends on my Facebook list, 3 people, and i know i can trust them for nothing to go further (plus we don't talk about work on Facebook anyway or work colleagues). And that includes private messages because screenshots are easy to print off. I've seen that happen too.

I would advise you to delete all comments if you haven't already. Remove all work colleagues from your friends list unless you know that 110% you can trust them and it takes more than a few months to figure that out in my eyes.
Don't talk about work on facebook, not even in a positive sense. You wont get any brownie points for saying you had a good day at work. Just do your job to the best of your ability & let everything else take care of itself.

Facebook is poisonous as far as employment goes. I've even seen non-work related things been used against people at work. Someone has broken their leg say & they drive for a living. They're 'tagged' as being out somewhere. When they get back they get asked why they were at such and such a place like they should be bedridden for the entire duration of their sick note. Like i said i have about 3 people i know i can trust (and it was working with them for a few years before i decided that) and all the others have been searched and blocked.

I don't 'check in', i very rarely post 'status updates'. Everything is very minimal. It's sad that it has to be like that but that's the world we live in. Good luck.

asajj

TELLIT01 wrote: »

Rule 1. NEVER put anything work related on Facebook.
Rule 2. NEVER comment on anything work related that others have put on Facebook.

3. Never add work colleagues on Facebook as friends.

sangie595

Jlawson118 wrote: »

One of the assistant managers blocked me, meaning I can't delete my initial comments which lands me in deeper water, but keeping my head down right now really seems like the best idea right now.

The assistant manager who started this is rather young but the rest are quite old. I just wanted to try and fit in with them and have banter but this has actually been a big life lesson to me now, just seriously keep my head down

Hmm. I'm concerned about this. Someone has blocked you. Which suggests that since this took place they have decided that the conversation was inappropriate. At best that means that they think you are an idiot. The worst case scenario is that they are going to raise this in work. I'm glad that you've learned a lesson - and I'm going to disagree with Aquagirl, but if you have seen the number of people dismissed because their trusted friend they work with reported something, you would never use Facebook, never mind include work colleagues in your trusted categories. I spend more time defending people on Facebook issues than almost anything else now. Even your friends and family can rat you out- it only takes one person to have a reason, and you may not even know what that reason is!

I think I'd have to say now that you can't ignore this. You need to speak to this manager, explain that in hindsight you believe that you've been very stupid being led along this path, and you would like to delete the comments but can't do so unless they let you. At this stage, as long as they stand, you are going to always be in danger of them coming out. Best to be proactive in addressing this. Whatever had been said by who now is history - what comes of it may not yet be.

And if that doesn't work, it's not a guaranteed strategy, but I'd be tempted to go to HR or my manager and " report myself"! Not complaining about the other comments, but simply explain it as you have here, that it all got out of hand, you've learned a tough lesson and you'd rather he heard it from you and not from someone else. If they then choose to act on the mobbing against you, that's up to them - but at the very least, it's you that gets the thefoot in door before someone else does.

Lesson 4 - join a union, so when everyone else lets you down, at least there's one person still trying to help you. Technically you are in a union, but I'm not sure how much help they can give in a workplace.

theoretica

Jlawson118 wrote: »

One of the assistant managers blocked me, meaning I can't delete my initial comments which lands me in deeper water

Not a situation I have ever had, but can't you still delete it on the activity log on your page?