Woman fired via Facebook after rant

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A British woman is regretting adding her boss on Facebook, after she was publicly fired on the social networking site for defaming her employer.

The woman, whose identity was blacked out on internet blog Applicant, reportedly vented her frustrations about her boss and workplace on her Facebook status.

After posting "OMG I HATE MY JOB!! My boss is a total pervvy (sic) wanker always making me do sh*t stuff just to piss me off!! WANKER!" she was immediately fired by her boss.

Unfortunately the now unemployed worker had added her boss as a friend, allowing him, and all other co-workers see her status.

Her boss, who's identity was also hidden, defended the allegations that he was making sexual advances on her.

"You've worked here 5 months and didn't work out that I'm gay? I know I don't prance around the office like a queen, but it's not exactly a secret", he said".

The boss then proceeded to identify her day-to-day mistakes while ending the post with a notice of termination.

"Don't bother coming in tomorrow".

The woman reportedly vented her frustration two weeks before her 6 month trial period.

The blog site, which gives people advice about recruitment and job skills, warns social networking can sometimes hinder your chance of finding work if not used correctly.

"Some people seem to keep forgetting that social media if not utilized properly can hurt your job search and can lead to job loss", it says.

It also suggests users take extra care when posting information and consider who will be reading it.

"Before you go ahead and utilize the power of free speech on Facebook or any other social media platforms make sure you watch what you are saying".

"Just make sure before you publish anything on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin or anywhere else, you haven’t friended one of your colleagues or bosses before you make a rude remark about them."

The warning comes after Australian call centre worker Kyle Doyle faked a sick day in order to get off work.

Doyle posted "Not going to work, f*** it i'm still trashed SICKIE WOO" only to find out days later that his supervisor saw the update on his Facebook status and refused him to process an official absence day form.
 

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Hackers have knocked wildly popular micro-blogging site Twitter offline for several hours and caused performance stumbles at hot social-networking service Facebook.

Twitter was down for more than two hours on Thursday before engineers at the California firm were able to get it back online with a warning at the website that "we are continuing to defend against and recover from this attack."

"On this otherwise happy Thursday morning, Twitter is the target of a denial-of-service attack," Twitter co-founder Biz Stone said in an official company blog.

"Attacks such as this are malicious efforts orchestrated to disrupt and make unavailable services such as online banks, credit card payment gateways, and in this case, Twitter, for intended customers or users," he said.

Facebook's service was "degraded" by an early-morning, distributed denial-of-service attack on the Palo Alto, California-based internet star's website, said spokeswoman Brandee Barker.

"No user data was at risk and we have restored full access to the site for most users," Barker said late on Thursday morning.

Twitter, Facebook, Google hunting hackers

"We're continuing to monitor the situation to ensure that users have the fast and reliable experience they've come to expect from Facebook."

Twitter and Facebook have reportedly teamed with internet powerhouse Google to investigate the attacks.

Hackers evidently employed classic distributed denial-of-service (DoS) attacks in which legions of zombie computers, machines infected with viruses, are commanded to simultaneously visit a website.

Such a massive onslaught of demand can overwhelm website servers, slowing service or knocking it offline.

The DoS attack hit Twitter about 6am local time (2200 AEST) on Thursday and caused the service to be offline until nearly noon.

Access to the website continued to be slow, with some aspiring users getting messages telling them connections had "timed out" because Twitter computers were taking too long to respond.

After the service resumed, Twitter user Benjamin Hobbs fired off a message saying he "wishes the Denial-of-Service idiots would get a life and leave Twitter alone".

Connection 'timed out' message

While an everyday chatting tool for many, Twitter has become a weapon used by dissidents to circumvent censorship in places where freedom of speech is suppressed.

Independent information about deadly riots in China's remote northwest filtered out on Twitter, YouTube and other internet forums in July, frustrating government efforts to control the news.

The communist authorities who built the so-called Great Firewall of China raced to stamp out video, images and words posted by internet users about unrest which, officials said, left at least 140 people dead.

Similar to the phenomenon seen a month earlier during Iran's political turmoil, pictures, videos and updates from Urumqi poured onto social networking and image sharing websites such as Twitter, YouTube and Flickr.

In many cases, items were reposted by other internet users on sites outside China to preserve the content, while Twitter helped link people around the globe to images Chinese authorities did not want seen.

Cyber-sympathisers from around the world joined forces through Twitter in June to help Iranian protesters dodge censorship, get out news of violent clashes and avoid real-world capture following Iran's disputed election.

Cyber attacks on web pages of Iranian opposition figures have continued in the aftermath of the controversial presidential election in Iran.

 

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