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One Facebook status away from collecting unemployment

Two recent Facebook status updates of an acquaintance have me worried for her job:

• Saturday: Back in town but shhhh don't tell the boss off till Tuesday.

• Today: Hi all out there I really need to find a new job bc my boss isn't living up to his end of our agreement. anyone know of anything?

Have I mentioned that she's a lawyer? And not a newbie lawyer. One with about 10 years experience. I know networking is the best way to hear of new opportunities, and that social media has changed the networking landscape. I am on LinkedIn and Facebook under my real identity too, after all. And at some point, I expect to be job searching and letting folks on those platforms know that I am job searching.

But putting an open call out on FB where your current employer could see it? A guy who doesn't know you're looking? Doesn't feel like the best option to me.

Discuss.

Full post as published by Butterflyfish on February 28, 2010 (boomark / email).