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I will not name him, but I had a friend who worked at Facebook. At one point, he talked shit about the company to another employee in a facebook chat. His HR re

I will not name him, but I had a friend who worked at Facebook. At one point, he talked shit about the company to another employee in a facebook chat. His HR representative quoted said chat at him in a meeting. Facebook will claim that this is ethical because your Facebook account is linked to the work systems and therefore your chats are company property. I will pass judgement - even if it had been talking shit on a purely internal chat application, such as a corporate slack, it would not be okay for HR to bring up talking shit - They would need to have had a dang good reason (A complaint from the other party of the chat that you had made threats, reason to believe you were discussing illegal activity or actively causing the company harm). What Facebook did was absolutely immoral, and it is clear that it is standard company policy.

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babygoat 8y ago
I don't condone what Facebook did, but I can't believe anyone would trust them not to.
- draw_down 8y ago
  Trust is one thing, but if there is any truth to that story it is downright pathetic on their part.
CGamesPlay 8y ago
When I worked there 4+ years ago, all employee:employee facebook messenger conversations (on production www.facebook.com) came with a little red circle, with alt text saying "employee to employee conversations are recorded". So I wouldn't have been surprised by this in the least.
- lawnchair_larry 8y ago
  But isn't it creepy that they were proactively monitoring them and reading for negative comments? Then reprimanding the participants for feelings they expressed privately to another individual? That's behavior one might expect from North Korea.
logifail 8y ago
>> At one point, he talked shit about the company to another employee in a facebook chat I've been telling my kids not to bitch about their teachers in public, as there is a good chance they will eventually be overheard by ... their teachers. Come on, grow up! Don't say anything bad about your employer via your employer's systems. Ever.

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babygoat 8y ago

I don't condone what Facebook did, but I can't believe anyone would trust them not to.

draw_down 8y ago
Trust is one thing, but if there is any truth to that story it is downright pathetic on their part.

CGamesPlay 8y ago

When I worked there 4+ years ago, all employee:employee facebook messenger conversations (on production www.facebook.com) came with a little red circle, with alt text saying "employee to employee conversations are recorded". So I wouldn't have been surprised by this in the least.

lawnchair_larry 8y ago
But isn't it creepy that they were proactively monitoring them and reading for negative comments? Then reprimanding the participants for feelings they expressed privately to another individual? That's behavior one might expect from North Korea.

logifail 8y ago

>> At one point, he talked shit about the company to another employee in a facebook chat I've been telling my kids not to bitch about their teachers in public, as there is a good chance they will eventually be overheard by ... their teachers. Come on, grow up! Don't say anything bad about your employer via your employer's systems. Ever.