Friday, July 26, 2013
Four Ways Social Media Can Get You Fired
www.thegrindstone.com: If your job is completely awful, you are not alone. We already know that plenty of educated, ambitious, talented people are working in roles that are the paycheck-earning equivalent to watching paint dry, but employment is employment, and unless you have some incredible safety net of opportunity (and not even then) you shouldn’t make careless mistakes in the age of social media.
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Not all degrees are equal, and degrees in the arts and humanities tend to fall to the bottom, as this article proved. That said, I don't think degrees in the fine arts or sociology should be devalued. I'd be interested to see how a college degree affects earnings in those jobs. For a job as a therapist or such, a degree is pretty necessary, but for a painter it might not be. That said, I think its a mistake to group all of the fine arts into one category. Take painters and TD's for example. It takes a different skill set to do each job, and a degree in painting for an artist might not be worth as much or as useful as a degree in theatre management for a Technical Director. Still, the skills sets taught in each of the low ROI degree programs can be transferred to other, higher paying jobs and can lead people do do what they love, which might be enough to compensate for the low ROI.
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein
I find this quote very much works as an adequate summary of people on social media. There is a very fine line between what is internet safe versus internet unsafe. It seems that common sense is lacking in a lot of people when they post very scandalous pictures to their facebook for all to see, especially a coworker or a boss. Maybe one day people will have a bit more sensibility before they insult their boss on their facebook so he can clearly see it. But for the time being, we will have to settle for laughing at their struggles
This is my actual comment for this article.
Social media makes life complicated, and it highlights stupidity. Yes, all four of these things one should not do on social media but they should all be self-explanatory. Some people use social media as a place to rant and complain, without realizing the consequences. Social media is exactly that, social, not private. As a rule of thumb, people shouldn't put something on a social website that they wouldn't want to say or be shown in public. Hopefully one day, articles like this won't be needed because most people will have the common sense to refrian from dissing their boss/job/coworkers on social websites.
This article summarizes the warnings my mom gave me throughout most of my high school career: social media, though fun, has the power to ruin your professional life. You might not think that the “boss”, is constantly watching over your Facebook or Instagram, but oftentimes he or she is. Maintaining a respectable reputation has always been of the utmost importance to me; in order to be taken seriously at school (both high-school and college), I am extremely diligent about keeping my social media very clean. I did not even have a Facebook until my senior year of high school for this reason alone. Going to a theater conservatory, I wouldn’t call it surprising that many of my friends have been photographed in compromising situations (theater parties are infamous for being wild). What I do find shocking, however, is that they let these compromising pictures pervade their Facebook pages. If I were a professor seeing them, my entire perspective on the student would have changed, not for the better. I would not be able to teach them in the same objective way. I will not deny it, Facebook is definitely fun: it represents a good way to stay connected to peers. I am not suggesting that teens remove themselves from the website altogether, but I do think that, in general, many would benefit from keeping a closer watch over their profiles.
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