Well that's embarrassing !!

[GWW]

It is very funny ... but unfortunately not legal.

How do you know what is and what isn't legal in the jurisdiction/country where this occurred?

[dedja]

add the word ... here

[GWW]

add the word ... here

So it happened in Australia?

[dedja]

settle down ... yes it was funny, but just as an aside my small point is that you wouldn't get away with that as an employer in Australia, that's all.

Now the next embarrassing moment is ...

[JAS]

Not quite the next...I suspect this the same eejit ...

Regards
JAS

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... 0508?f=rss

A teenager has been sacked from her job after calling it boring on Facebook.
Kimberley Swann made the comment about Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Clacton, Essex, where she had begun working as an administrator.

She claims she did not name the company online and was happy in the job.

The 16-year-old was sacked with "immediate effect" after posting the negative comment on the social networking site.
"They were just being nosey, going through everything. I think it is really sad, it makes them look stupid that they are going to be so petty," she said.

Boss Steve Ivell told Sky News Online Miss Swann posted comments about her job and invited other staff members to read them.

"Had Miss Swann put up a poster on the staff noticeboard making the same comments and invited other staff to read it there would have been the same result," he explained.

"Her display of disrespect and dissatisfaction undermined the relationship and made (her job) untenable," Mr Ivell said.

He added: "We thought that Miss Swann's best interests would be served by working for a company that would more suit her expectations."

Brendan Barber, from the TUC union, said employees need to protect their privacy online and employers should be less sensitive to criticism.

"Most employers wouldn't dream of following their staff down the pub to see if they were sounding off about work to their friends," he said.

"Just because snooping on personal conversations is possible these days, it doesn't make it healthy."

[Strawb]

Not quite the next...I suspect this the same eejit ...

Regards
JAS

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-New ... 0508?f=rss

A teenager has been sacked from her job after calling it boring on Facebook.
Kimberley Swann made the comment about Ivell Marketing and Logistics Limited in Clacton, Essex, where she had begun working as an administrator.

She claims she did not name the company online and was happy in the job.

The 16-year-old was sacked with "immediate effect" after posting the negative comment on the social networking site.
"They were just being nosey, going through everything. I think it is really sad, it makes them look stupid that they are going to be so petty," she said.

Boss Steve Ivell told Sky News Online Miss Swann posted comments about her job and invited other staff members to read them.

"Had Miss Swann put up a poster on the staff noticeboard making the same comments and invited other staff to read it there would have been the same result," he explained.

"Her display of disrespect and dissatisfaction undermined the relationship and made (her job) untenable," Mr Ivell said.

He added: "We thought that Miss Swann's best interests would be served by working for a company that would more suit her expectations."

Brendan Barber, from the TUC union, said employees need to protect their privacy online and employers should be less sensitive to criticism.

"Most employers wouldn't dream of following their staff down the pub to see if they were sounding off about work to their friends," he said.

"Just because snooping on personal conversations is possible these days, it doesn't make it healthy."

Epic Fail

[lesthemechanic]

The First time i tried to start my car when in drive

I have been out to many people who have done that. One was an after hours call out to a forklift at Virginia at 2.30AM one morning. It was in reverse & of course wouldn't start.

And then there are the people whose door lock remote does not work and they can't unlock their car door. They forget they are also holding a key in their hand !!

[therisingblues]

When I started reading that I thought yep, typical American eejit...then I saw it says 'P45'...yep typical British or Irish eejit

Regards
JAS

Also that wonderful Britishism... "wanker" is not a word they use in America. Which tipped me off that it was a citizen of the Commonwealth.

[therisingblues]

I have an embarrassing story. Though it isn't actually about me, I tend to blank out my most embarrassing incidents somehow.

I'd been in Japan for about 2 months, and I was riding with a hyper-talkative American guy on the way to pick up a Hawaiian bloke. We pulled up outside his appartment and he was already outside, just in front of his building, a few meters away from where we were in the car. We waited for him, and watched as he was crouched on his heels, with his attention fully focussed on a dog that was going in and out of our view, behind shrubs. We couldn't see his hand, but we could see his elbow jerking back and forward in a steady motion. He was a sort of slow moving bloke, tall and thin and really sedate, so we eventually decided to hurry him along a bit and honked the horn, and he ambled over to the car. When he got in the American guy said, "Didn't mean to honk you there, but we are in a hurry!"
To which the Hawaiian guy, in a voice that sounded as though it'd been pickled in morphine, and with a perfectly straight face says "Oh yeh... Well....I was trying to make the dog... come."
Me and the other American guy just completely lost it. I didn't want to be rude to the Hawaiian bloke because at that stage I barely knew him, but his delivery of that line was absolute gold and I laughed so hard that my cheeks were aching, the other guy was in a similar state. Then the Hawaiian guy, after a few seconds having finally clicked as to what we were laughing at starts saying stuff like "Oh... I see.... very mature guys." Which of course set us off again.