Labor & Employment Law

Oops! A Tweet on Twitter Can Twitter Away a Job Offer

A recent job offer from Cisco caused a recent flurry of web activity for an unfortunate job applicant and demonstrates some of the perils of social media.  Seems that a recent job applicant tweeted the following from her twitter account: "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.' 

Needless to say, in a nanosecond, the tweet was all over the web, including being read by staff at Cisco.  The result - not good.  In addition to watching a great job disappear in such a rotten economy, the candidate now had become the subject of this website - www.ciscofatty.com - which almost brought down godaddy's servers - obviously created by someone with a rather mean streak with way too much time on his or her hands.

For more from MSNBC: Twitter gets you fired in 140 characters or less

Full post as published by Strategic HR Lawyer on March 26, 2009 (boomark / email).