The perils of social networking

October 24th, 2008 · 7 Comments · humor, litigation, networking, social, timesaver

A Sydney telco employee (Kyle Doyle) has learned the hard way the perils of sharing too much information on Facebook after he was caught by his boss chucking a sickie after a big night out.

In an email exchange doing the rounds of office blocks, Mr Doyle was asked by his employer to provide a medical certificate verifying a day of sick leave in August.

Tags: facebook·humor·humour·perils·sickie

7 Comments so far ↓

lucy // Oct 24, 2008 at 12:45 pm

HeHeHe! Nice one!

I’d love to have seen the look on his face when he got that mail.!
DrCris // Oct 24, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Priceless.
Francesca A. // Oct 24, 2008 at 1:33 pm

…. Infirmus vomito
Vijay // Oct 24, 2008 at 2:52 pm

Wow! And the dumba$$ had the cheek to bring up his contract.
He deserves worse than just the loss of a day’s pay in my opinion.
Tristian // Oct 27, 2008 at 5:25 am

yoooou’ve been tangoed…er facebooked!
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