If you have been addicted to the Status updates on various Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Orkut etc. – Beware! Employers are snooping and you could get fired because of “your Status updates”!

Here’s what happened to a British teen

That’s what happened to Briton teen, Kimberly Swann. She was summarily sacked after her boss learned — via her updated status — that she was “bored at work.” In this hilarious CNN segment, a journalist does a search for the terms “bored” and “work” on Facebook and Twitter, and finds that Swann certainly isn’t alone. (Further research would no doubt dig up folks saying far worse things about their place of employment).

Her boss, meanwhile, says Swann’s admission of boredom revealed that “she just wasn’t happy here” and thus “it wasn’t going to work out.” We’re no experts, but why was the boss perusing Facebook on company time? Was he, perhaps, a little bored?

Source: Ajit Chouhan (Facebook)

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Leave home soon or pay the price

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The economy is at an all time low and companies would have to cut down costs to survive and to ensure that the financial losses are cut down. Here are some signs that will help you evaluate if you are in the hit list or not. If yes, I suggest you start working on your resume right away.

1. Have you been asked to take an unpaid vacation?
2. Has your boss been fired ?
3. If your department is being downsized ?
4. Have you been given a promotion with a position of lesser responsibility?
5. Have you been in the bad books of your mentor / superior / supervisor ?
6. You don’t have friends in office
7. You have not got any encouraging words from your manager during the performance appraisal process
8. Your company has been indicating reorganize its strategy and promoting outsourcing
9. You have been given projects with a strict time line and is impossible to achieve
10. Your subordinate gets a mail for what you are responsible for!

If most of the questions are moving towards the negative front, I suggest you start looking at alternate options.

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Simply Hired, the vertical search engine company  launches their operations in India at www.simplyhired.co.in. Simply Hired is a job aggregator and will ensure that you do not miss a single opportunity that may exist. Simply Hired is one of the first job aggregators globally and I am glad that they have started to focus on India.

SimplyHired has also started their operations in Canada, UK and Australia along with India. In a press release, Gautam Godhwani, Co-founder and CEO of Simply Hired quoted

“The launch of these websites is an integral part of Simply Hired’s effort to expand our mission in building the largest worldwide job search engine, we want to continue making the job search process a positive experience globally and leverage the successful business model we have built in the U.S.”

I wish Gautam the very best in achieving his mission !

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