Employee should be made aware that ____ may observe content and information made publicly available by employees on social media. Employees should use their best judgement to avoid posting material that is vulgar, sexually explicit or pornographic,obscene, threatening, intimidating, knowingly or recklessly false, or a violation against the company’s policies against discrimination, harassment, or hostility on account of a legally protected class or status or characteristic such as race, age, or disability.
There’s 3 pages to their policy. You basically can’t post ANYTHING job-related, even if you do or don’t mention anyone’s full name, or this company’s name, and also, ‘relationships’ of any kind in a negatively light, with or without a full name.
I’m not sure as an artist, a free spirit, a big mouth, an activist, an overall bad ass, a recovering alcoholic, a truth-keeper, and a general Fu-ck Ya spirit, that I’m going to be able to sign this.
I’m going to give it until sometime tomorrow to decide.
I use fb and things to keep in touch with friends and family and the cricket club. Some things I don’t share or comment about. It’s one of those things. Do the job. If they catch you out they probably could terminate you…I know it’s an invasion of privacy but I’ve worked places with policies like that. Maybe not three pages worth of stuff but you just kept some things to yourself.
I know how incredibly hard it must be for you to sign a form like that. I would highly recommend setting your profile to friends only, or at least friends-locking any posts you make that might violate the policy. A better choice would be to not make those posts in the first place, but that might feel too harsh amd stifling.
yeah, I’m torn still. These are sort of underwritten things to social media, I’m still am not sure they can enforce anything, and I bet if they fired me over it, I’d stand a chance if I fought them.
I guess I would be somewhat concerned that with an extensive three-page policy like this, your employer might go out of their way to actively monitor their employees’ social media. That would feel overbearing and invasive to me if I were one of their employees.