Facebook Surfing While Sick Costs Woman Job

kiamoy · April 29, 2009, 01:22:31 AM

ZURICH (Reuters) â€" A Swiss insurance worker lost her job after surfing popular social network site Facebook while off sick, her employer said Friday.

The woman said she could not work in front of a computer as she needed to lie in the dark but was then seen to be active on Facebook, which insurer Nationale Suisse said in a statement had destroyed its trust in the employee.

"This abuse of trust, rather than the activity on Facebook, led to the ending of the work contract," it said.

The unnamed woman told the 20 Minuten daily she had been surfing Facebook in bed on her iPhone and accused her employer of spying on her and other employees by sending a mysterious friend request which allows access to personal online activity.

Nationale Suisse rejected the accusation of spying and said the employee's Facebook activity had been stumbled across by a colleague in November, before use of the social network site was blocked in the company.

(Reporting by Emma Thomasson, editing by Paul Casciato)

Lorenzo · April 30, 2009, 07:32:57 AM

Ironic. My biochem professor has a facebook account.

kiamoy · April 30, 2009, 07:34:57 AM

hahaha!! My supervisors too!! Friends pajud mi

ms da binsi · April 30, 2009, 07:38:40 AM

hala mag Facebook na sad ta! that is STUPID! ug mag daut diay kinahanglan piyong lang jud ang mata!!!

Im glad i wasnt destined there!

kiamoy · April 30, 2009, 07:42:41 AM

naa pay Twitter.. pastilan!

ms da binsi · April 30, 2009, 07:46:59 AM

di kaayo nako feel ang twitter Kiams!

Lorenzo · April 30, 2009, 08:02:16 AM

Well Id rather have mommy join facebook than TB.

I found out from my sis that my mom frequents this site.

All my poems and my letters i wrote, naka read sigoro si mommy adto.

patay ko.

hahahahaaaaa!

kiamoy · April 30, 2009, 04:53:11 PM

without the need to check TB, im sure your mom knows you more than you expect..haha

Macky Ferniz · April 30, 2009, 05:13:06 PM

That is actually invasion of private life.

If workload made an employee sick, then the employee has the right to divert her mind to relaxing activities, may it be web surfing, outing, watching TV, etc.

The employee might look physically healthy, but mentally sick due to workload.

The best working environment is still at Google HQ, where you can take nap anytime, eat at their 24 hour restaurant anytime, play pool or ping-pong at the boardroom and work in T-Shirts & Jeans.

Lorenzo · May 02, 2009, 01:33:20 AM

without the need to check TB, im sure your mom knows you more than you expect..haha

haha, she knows when im not telling the truth. Just by my tone of voice. Or she gives me one of her stares.

How can I hide anything from mommy. She made me.

hahaha!

Bem, your mom like that too?

glacier_71 · May 02, 2009, 08:15:36 AM

from being employers to stalkers.

it's funny how Net connects us really.

the more we demand privacy, the more we become open.

Raquelproud boholana · May 02, 2009, 04:24:35 PM

Well Id rather have mommy join facebook than TB.

I found out from my sis that my mom frequents this site.

All my poems and my letters i wrote, naka read sigoro si mommy adto.

patay ko.

hahahahaaaaa!

Very funny.Proud gyud pag ayo imong Mommy nga makabasa sa tanan nimong poems ug blog diri. As a mother nakatawa ko naghunahuna sa imong giingon Lorenzo nga I would rather have mommy join facebook.It remind me sa akong mga anak nga usahay ug magplay sila ila classmates ingnon man ko ug MOM sit down there.Di sila gusto mo join ka nila.Mao siguro jud ni ang rule sa mga mommy.