In this recent video you see another reason appear for getting fired from basic. Aside for the typical ‘inappropriate’ picture fire, a 16-year old girl from Essex, England was recently fired after her boss saw her Facebook status after her first day of on the job. It read:

first day at work. omg!! So dull!!

Her boss felt that if she was so bored on the first day of work, it would not be a good fit in the long run.

An underlying story in the firing is the close notice kept on the girls Facebook page by the boss. Facebook and other social networking sites are being used more often by employees as a tool for background checking, but the notice of a status update after the first day of work may be a little to much attention by this middle-aged male.

Kevin Colvin emailed his bosses late in the day of Halloween, letting them know he would not be able to attended work due to a family emergency in New York. When his boss, Paul Davis, received the email the following day he checked his interns Facebook, and what did he find:

Davis responed to his intern with the following message:

“Thanks for letting me know–hope everything is OK in New York. (cool wand)” -ValleyWag.com

Colvin did not really have any family emergency which he needed to be in attendance of, but wanted to party it up on Halloween.

The email thread between Kevin Colvin and his boss Paul Davis are now being emailed around the internet, really hurting Colvin’s online reputation. This is another case of careless postings on Facebook leading to being fired or in other forms of trouble.