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Ashley Payne posted a photo on Facebook of herself holding a glass of wine and a mug of beer. She was vacationing around Europe when the photo was taken and her privacy settings were on “high”, but apparently, that wasn’t enough. A nosy parent found it and showed members of the school board, also noting Payne’s use of “the B word” on her page, ultimately resulting in Payne being forced to resign.

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Ashley Payne posted a photo on Facebook of herself holding a glass of wine and a mug of beer. She was vacationing around Europe when the photo was taken and her privacy settings were on “high”, but apparently, that wasn’t enough. A nosy parent found it and showed members of the school board, also noting Payne’s use of “the B word” on her page, ultimately resulting in Payne being forced to resign.

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Teachers shouldn't Facebook their students

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Teachers shouldn't Facebook their students

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Bronx high school teacher Chadwin Reynolds got fired for being creepy to his students on Facebook. He posted "This is sexy" under pictures they shared.

Fired.

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> 22-year-old North Carolina waitress Ashley Johnson blasted two customers over Facebook for stiffing her on the tip and keeping her late. She also took the time to mention her workplace by name.

She was fired for breaking a rule about disparaging customers.

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People should always be mindful of what they put out there of themselves because they never know how others could perceive them. 

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People should always be mindful of what they put out there of themselves because they never know how others could perceive them. 

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I agree with all of these cases because these employees were doing a very poor job in representing their companies. 

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I agree with all of these cases because these employees were doing a very poor job in representing their companies. 

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> My female friend (18) was DM’d through Twitter by the news presenter (37) of our city. He was talking about her beach pictures and how she is really pretty and how they need to get together. He lost his job later that week, mostly because he used the weather channel’s Twitter account.”
>“My mom’s ex boyfriend was a waiter at a very elite restaurant and normally got very nice tips. Some guy left him a $5 tip for an over $100 bill and he got mad and posted the customer’s information on Facebook. He got fired the next day.”

>The former-Chipotle employee who dissed his wages in a tweet, got fired, sued Chipotle and won.

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If you're a police officer, posting a Vine in which you joke about stealing cocaine from the evidence room is probably not the best idea. Richard Hy, a cop from Buffalo, New York, found that out that out the hard way when, after posting said Vine, he was suspended without pay.

Unfortunately, Hy's not alone in miscalculating what is and isn't appropriate to post on social media. And compared with the following individuals, he's lucky: he kept his job (so far).

Take heed from these seven folks who made some serious judgment slips over social media -- and got the old pink slip.
Related: 7 Social Media Fails So Disastrous, They Shocked the Experts
1. The former-Chipotle employee who dissed his wages in a tweet, got fired, sued Chipotle and won.

Last year, 38-year-old war veteran James Kennedy took to Twitter to complain about the low wages Chipotle paid to its crew members following a free food promotion.

His tweet read: "@ChipotleTweets, nothing is free, only cheap #labor. Crew members make only $8.50hr how much is that steak bowl really?"

Kennedy later deleted his tweet after a supervisor showed him the company's social-media policy, which states that an employee cannot make "disparaging, false" statements about Chipotle publicly. Following another incident involving his asking for shift breaks, he was let go.

However, the buck didn't stop there. Kennedy took Chipotle to court for his wrongful termination -- and won.

The court found in favor of Kennedy and stated that Chipotle's social-media policy violated federal labor laws and ordered the casual dining restaurant chain to rehire Kennedy and pay him lost wages. The court-case victor, who now has a job with American Airlines and has no plans returning to Chipotle, says that he will accept his lost wages in the form of Chipotle food vouchers. (Now that's customer loyalty.)

2. The Yelp employee who posted an article on Medium about her low pay.

Last month Talia Jane posted a very public letter to Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelmann on Medium, in which she complained the company paid her so little she was forced to spend 80 percent of her paycheck on rent.

Jane won't be getting anymore Yelp paychecks in future. Promptly after posting the Medium letter, she was informed by Yelp's HR department that her actions violated Yelp's "Terms of Conduct" and was canned.

Unsurprisingly, she took to social media -- this time, posting a tweet -- to share the news with her followers.

3. The publicist who tweeted a joke about getting AIDS before takeoff on a flight to Africa.

Justine Sacco, once the senior director of communications at media company IAC, which owns Tinder and The Daily Beast, was boarding a flight to South Africa when she tweeted the following:

"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"

While she was in the air, her tweet went viral. By the time she landed, she was the number-one worldwide trend on Twitter. She was sacked soon afterwards.

4. The comedian who tweeted jokes about the tsunami in Japan.

Comedian Gilbert Gottfried was once the voice for the Aflac duck. However, following a series of flippant jokes about the 2011 tsunami in Japan that killed over 3,000 people, his distinctive voice wasn't enough to save him.

His tweets included the following:

"Japan called me. They said 'maybe those jokes are a hit in the U.S., but over here, they're all sinking."

Another read:

"Japan is really advanced. They don't go to the beach. The beach comes to them."
Related: Take Care to Learn From These 4 Big Social-Media Blunders
Less than an hour after posting the tweets, Gottfried was relieved of his duck-duties.

5. The former-MLB pitcher who drunk-tweeted racially offensive comments during a game.

Beware of drunk-tweeting. In 2010, Mike Bacsik, a former MLB pitcher who went on to work as a Dallas radio producer for a sports broadcast, attended an NBA match in which the San Antonio Spurs beat the Dallas Mavericks.

After the game, Bacsik tweeted: "Congrats to all the dirty Mexicans in San Antonio."

While Bacsik was reportedly drunk when he posted the tweet, that wasn't a good enough excuse for his employer. Soon after, he lost his job.

6. The recent college graduate who tweeted how much she hated her new job.

Bragging about a job offer on Twitter and insulting the company that offered you said job is not a smart move. Conner Riley, a 22-year-old recent with a degree in information management (ahem), found that out the hard way.

After being offered a position from California tech company Cisco in 2009, Riley tweeted:

"Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work."

Her tweet elicited a huge response on Twitter -- including from a Cisco associate who responded he'd be happy to pass her sentiments on to HR. Suffice it to say, her job offer disappeared.

7. The Taco Bell employee who tweeted a photo of himself urinating on the food.

In 2012, Taco Bell employee Cameron Jankowski of Fort Wayne, Ind., tweeted a photo of himself urinating on a plate of nachos. He later claimed he never served the dish.
Related: Was Hostess' Bizarre #OpeningDay Tweet an Epic Fail or Savvy Social Media Marketing?
His tweet elicited the expected outrage, and the infamous hacker group Anonymous (yes, the one that claimed to be behind the Ashley Madison hack scandal) got involved and released a YouTube video containing Jankowski's personal information.

Soon after, he was let go from Taco Bell. In what was probably a wise decision, he also deleted his Twitter account.

When Nicole Crowther, an extra on the now-canceled Fox show Glee, tweeted out who was crowned prom queen and king in a not-yet-aired episode in 2011, Glee co-creator Brad Falchuk responded by tweeting:

"Hope you're qualified to do something besides work in entertainment...Who are you to spoil something talented people have spent months to create?"

Although Crowther claims she didn't work on that particular episode and got her information second hand, she got fired from the show anyway.

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These Social Media Fails Got People Fired

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6 min read If you're a police officer, posting a Vine in which you joke about stealing cocaine from the evidence room is probably not the best idea. Richard Hy, a cop from Buffalo, New York, found that out that out the hard way when, after posting said Vine, he was suspended without pay.

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> Teacher Carly McKinney was fired from her job after tweeting about being “naked, wet and stoned”

>PR chief Justine Sacco tweeted about going to South Africa and “hoping she doesn’t get AIDS” but teehee, saying of course she won’t, she’s white.

>This story of a kindly school bus driver posting his sadness on Facebook over a student telling him he didn’t eat lunch that day should be heart-warming. The student claimed that he was 40 cents short and that the cafeteria wouldn’t let him eat, so bus driver Johnny cook took to Facebook to share the situation.

>“I was younger and an idiot. I posted something on Facebook about wanting to go home and play The Sims so I could create [telecommunications store I worked for] on it and then slowly kill off all the customers. I was working a late night shift in a mall and forgot our new coworker had added me on Facebook days before.”

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These people should have thought a little harder before updating their statuses

Behold: 20 great reasons to A) use Pentagon-level security settings on your social media accounts and B) not post horrible things - courtesy of Reddit.

1. "A former colleague of mine posted about how he was going to use up all his sick leave then quit. He posted it at 9 a.m., and was told he didn't have a job at 11 a.m."

2. "I had to fire someone for this. He was a volunteer firefighter and left for a call which I allowed. Fifteen minutes later someone showed me his five minute-old post of him riding quads saying something along the lines of 'Sometimes you just need to F-off from work.' That put him on a final warning. He then left because he said HIS house was on fire then half-an-hour later his wife tagged him in a photo of him sitting in a kiddie pool in front of his house. The funny thing is, in both cases, if he had simply asked to leave early I probably would have said yes."

3. "I work in a hospital and there was a police shooting in my area a couple of years ago. Multiple officers were brought into our ER. One officer was DOA and a number of idiot hospital employees posted condolences on their Facebook pages with the name of the officer before the family was officially informed. Seven or eight employees were rightfully fired for that one."

4. "I once didnt get a job since I don't have Facebook/etc. Apparently they wanted to see the kind of person I was, and I told them I like my privacy."

5. "A prospective employee at the company I work for had just passed his interview, and was told that all he needs to do is pass a drug test and a physical and he would start on Monday. Someone found the new hire on Facebook and the guy had just posted 20 minutes after the interview, 'S-! Anyone know how to pass a drug test in 24 hours?!'"

6. "I had to fire an employee for a tweet he wrote about a customer. He tweeted '(customer's full name) would be a great name for a porn star.' I found out about it when the customer's lawyer called me the next day threatening action. Turns out the guy worked for the local newspaper and obsessively searched his name on all social media."

7. "I was younger and an idiot. I posted something on facebook about wanting to go home and play The Sims so I could create [telecommunications store I worked for] on it and then slowly kill off all the customers. I was working a late night shift in a mall and forgot our new coworker had added me on Facebook days before."

8. "I worked in tech assistance at an electronics store in college. A coworker was fired when a famous actor came in and she posted a lot of his private info on Facebook. Like '[Full name of actor] came into our store and bought this and this and has a black Amex card' and stuff he had on his computer ... not once but on 2 separate occasions."

9. "One of my Facebook friends worked for the postal service in my town. She posted about how she wanted to kill her boss and went into some gory details. Then, about 5 hours later, she posted another status about how the Feds showed up at her house and that one of her coworkers had showed her boss the status and she was now fired. She's obviously really dumb."

10. "Guy at my company got sacked for putting a Facebook status along the lines of 'f-ng immigrants, I hate them' not realizing both his bosses (also owners of the company) were second generation immigrants from India. They started the company from scratch and now employ 30 people. They pay for full gym membership, healthcare, and generous pension for all the staff, which he had to say goodbye to when he was fired."

11. "I worked for a place that has a giftshop. Inside of this gift shop were the most ugly, unwearable scarves on the face of the planet. I was younger and didn't really care about the company or any possible consequences.I started a movement called 'Scarf Tuesday.' Basically, a few of us (on the clock) would meet up at 9 every Tuesday and wear a scarf for a photo on Facebook. These photos started getting likes and people loved them, so we kept going.

A few months later, I get pulled into my bosses office. On the wall are at least twenty of the scarf Tuesday pictures WITH THE FACES BLURRED OUT. My boss asks me, to this day, the funniest question I've ever been asked: 'What do you see here?' I smiled and told him it looked like employees wearing scarves.

He said he found it 'hilarious' but it was unacceptable and he was disappointed. Apparently somebody watching the cameras wasn't happy and watched us for weeks piling evidence. Everybody had similar meetings in the next few days. I didn't get canned right away because we stopped doing Scarf Tuesday, but the retaliation was awful and eventually I was blamed for just about everything that went wrong and got fired."

12. "A co-worker of mine was fired recently because he got caught sneaking off from work to smoke weed and drink. This moron would post post photos of him smoking and drinking on Facebook. The boss found out and predictably fired him on the spot. This guy was almost 30-years-old."

13. "A girl I know was a nurse at a hospital and got fired for posting things on Facebook such as: 'Soooooo sleepy here in the ICU. Will someone please code and give me something exciting to do? #isthatbad?' and a lot of racist things. The dumbest part about it was she was TAGGING the hospital she worked at in her posts"

14. "I posted a blog post on MySpace in 2005 that got me discharged from the Army. I indicated I had romantic feelings for a female and that I had acted on those feelings (I am also female). My sergeant suspected I was involved with this woman so she looked me up on MySpace, saw the blog post, and 3 months later, I was discharged for 'homosexual conduct.'"

15. "Joined a games studio alongside a guy who'd just finished his philosophy degree. He felt that the game's official forums were the best place to discuss whether disabled people would be 'Of as much value as pigs' after a post-apocalyptic event, and if they should be simply slaughtered and eaten. All using his company account, of course."

16. "My female friend (18) was DM'd through Twitter by the news presenter (37) of our city. He was talking about her beach pictures and how she is really pretty and how they need to get together. He lost his job later that week, mostly because he used the wheather channel's Twitter account."

17. "My mom's ex boyfriend was a waiter at a very elite restaurant and normally got very nice tips. Some guy left him a $5 tip for an over $100 bill and he got mad and posted the customer's information on Facebook. He got fired the next day."

18. "I was let go from the nations third largest insurance company for what were called 'offensive tweets.' Apparently someone with a name similar to mine was tweeting vulgar things to comedy accounts and they brought me into HR and terminated me. I sued for wrongful termination and won."

19. "It was my first week on the job a week at a law firm, and had to ride with one of the female employees to the UPS store. She was a terrible driver, and almost wrecked multiple times. I posted on Facebook, 'One week on the job and my coworker is trying to kill me; worst driver ever.' The next day I was called into my bosses office with the girl sitting there with an expressionless look on her face, and there was a printout of my post. It was awkward and they fired me on the spot. All of my account information was also set to private, so they figured a way to check my activity."

20. "A few years ago I knew a girl doing social media for a pastry company. Well, this was also around the time of the Casey Anthony trial, and the day the verdict was released she tweeted 'Who's #notguilty about eating all the tasty treats they want?!'

It SERIOUSLY blew up and she ended up getting fired a few days later. She was pretty upset about it for a while, but tells the story at parties now and gets that it's pretty funny."
Stories have been edited from Reddit for length and clarity.

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These people should have thought a little harder before updating their statuses Behold: 20 great reasons to A) use Pentagon-level security settings on your social media accounts and B) not post horrible things - courtesy of Reddit. 1. "A former colleague of mine posted about how he was going to use up all his sick leave then quit.