05-13-2015, 09:00 AM
In my job we are trained repeatedly that we represent the agency 24-7 and can be reprimanded or fired for inappropriate behavior outside work. Of course it's a union shop so they don't always SAY that's why somebody got fired but it's usually obvious. Like our former union chief steward who was fired supposedly for using work printers to copy union flyers, something she had done for years, ONLY after she went on a Facebook rant about the direction of the agency and a few execs in particular.
I know another who was fired because she was at a restaurant sharing a humorous story about one of her consumers that portrayed that person in a negative light, used his name and the entire story was overheard by the guy's cousin sitting at a table nearby.
I myself was formally reprimanded for a silly April fools newsletter article I wrote that said the agency had been acquired by Time Warner and all consumers would be trained to pull cable, spray for bees and take customer complaints etc. It was as silly as I could make it and hurt nobody, but some family member decided to act like his ass was chapped and I ended up having to take a discipline for it.
I know another who was fired because she was at a restaurant sharing a humorous story about one of her consumers that portrayed that person in a negative light, used his name and the entire story was overheard by the guy's cousin sitting at a table nearby.
I myself was formally reprimanded for a silly April fools newsletter article I wrote that said the agency had been acquired by Time Warner and all consumers would be trained to pull cable, spray for bees and take customer complaints etc. It was as silly as I could make it and hurt nobody, but some family member decided to act like his ass was chapped and I ended up having to take a discipline for it.
Thank god I am oblivious to the opinions of others while caught in the blinding splendor of my own cleverness.