Managers need Facebook help, too

By now we’ve all heard stories about employees posting stupid things to social networking sites. But managers aren’t immune to the same mistakes.
Take this Facebook exchange recently reproduced by Brand-Yourself.com:
An employee made a post expressing her thoughts about her job. She didn’t have anything nice to say: “OMG I HATE MY JOB!!” she wrote. “My boss is a total pervvy wanker always making me do s*** stuff just to p*** me off.”
One thing she forgot: She’d added her boss as friend some time earlier. He saw the note — and wrote back with an equally dumb response.
The boss told the employee not to flatter herself, and asked how she didn’t realize he was gay. (“I know I don’t prance around the office like a queen, but it’s not exactly a secret.”) He also chided the employee for being “able to f*** up the simplest of tasks,” and wondered if that was why she hated the job so much.
The message ended, as you might expect, with the woman getting fired.
The manager might have just been upset after being publicly insulted — but that doesn’t repair the damage he did to his company’s reputation.