If you don’t like what’s going on, you need to raise the problem in a positive way, in a way that can help change the situation. Whining about it on Facebook or on Twitter is proof that you’re not the best person for the job. It’s a tough lesson, but it’s true. If you’re not intelligent enough to keep your whining off of public places, you deserve to be terminated for poor judgement.

Hopefully you’ve learned your lesson and you won’t be whining in public again about how unfair and how crappy your boss is. As someone who manages people, I’m under no illusion that I’m perfect, but I don’t need to be constantly reminded of it on my employee’s public Facebook and Twitter pages.

And you’re right, work isn’t always fun. That’s why it’s called work. If it were all fun, you’d either be extremely fortunate…or you wouldn’t be working.

In my opinion, if you say something on line, it’s the same as if you said it in person. Keep your critical opinions to yourself, or risk retribution.

In an interview, Cokie Black “urged women just starting out in their careers to “do everything and more. Come early. Stay late. It’s not only about the hours you put in; it’s about the attitude you bring to work.”

After spending more than 25 years as a recruiter I can guarantee you that attitude isn’t something you turn on and off like a water faucet. Knowing that, managers assume that the attitude reflected in a person’s social media postings will be the same attitude the person brings to the job. Not only attitude, but traits such as discretion, common sense, etc.

There is an only saying about email that goes, “Don’t put anything in an email that you wouldn’t want to see on the front page of the New York Times” and that goes double for social media.

I find it laughable that the generation that pushes for the open environment of social media has no understanding that open = public and you can’t really choose who sees what. You may post only to friends, but you have no real control on what they do with it the information or pictures.

You may find it’s also a good idea to remember that that employment these days is “at will.

Instead of pouting and crying “not fair” you might instead want to use this as an opportunity to mature.