Brixx Pizza Waitress Fired After Facebook Rant
Facebook has gotten someone else fired. Ashley Johnson, a 22-year-old North Carolina waitress, just learned what you should already know – your friends aren’t the only ones reading your Facebook page. After serving a couple for three hours last week — including one hour after she was supposed to be off the clock — and receiving a lousy $5 tip in return, Ashley let loose on the duo on her Facebook page…to disastrous consequences: she’s now out of a job…
She blasted the couple on Facebook, calling them cheap and mentioning the restaurant by name, according to The Charlotte Observer. A few days later, Brixx managers told Johnson that her job was being terminated because she violated a company policy banning workers from speaking ill of customers and casting the restaurant in a bad light on the social networking giant.
“We definitely care what people say about our customers,” said Jeff Van Dyke, one of the partners who run the restaurant.
“It was my own fault,” Ashley told the paper. “I did write the message. But I had no idea that something that, to me is very small, could result in my losing my job.”
Written by Castina on May 18th, 2010 | Tagged as: Facebook
On May 18th 2010, Eric J wrote:
They could have given her a warning instead of firing her.
On May 20th 2010, Fearlz. wrote:
yeap. thats mean.
On May 23rd 2010, Spiderxox wrote:
Leave it to Ashley to make headline news all over the country. Everyone please leave this girl alone. They had a right to fire her because of contract sure but personally she has a right to free speech witch should I think void the contract. Even so I know personally that her Facebook is private and only her friends can see it. So I believe her privacy rights have been violated. Not even brixx can look in to her mind and read her thought but if they could would they fire her by thinking the coustomers were cheap. Point being the post was private and in confidence with her friends. No way could they have seen that post so it was not publicly boasted. Ashley is being slandered and ridiculed and I believe she has a right to be angry.
On June 1st 2010, Anon wrote:
@Spiderxox : no, facebook is not private!!! By default all information on your page is accessible to everyone, not just your friends, and it is so public that it gets indexed by google! My facebook page actually appears near the top when I type in my company’s name, but I don’t dare write anything bad there because I understand how public it is and imagine how bad that would be for PR if someone did a google search for my company name and that turned up. It would be at least as bad as if I went on the news and trashed my company or its customers there.