Sawmill worker's job security in jeopardy after he wrote about his boss on social media: 'I'm mostly getting fired for a Facebook post'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 25, 2026 4:00 PM EST

Everyone needs to vent about their employer occasionally. Just don't do it publicly on social media, or you might end up regretting it.

It's hard not to empathize with what this sawmill worker is going through because who hasn't wanted to lay out their grievances against a toxic boss? If only he had been satisfied with just venting to a friend or family member. Once you put thoughts and feelings like that into writing on a public forum, it will inevitably be difficult to walk those comments back. Just ask Karla Sofía Gascón!

In all seriousness, this guy spent the holidays overworked and underpaid while his employer was on vacation yet again. In an impulsive, "dark night of the soul" moment, the author wrote on his Facebook page that his boss went on more vacations this year than the number of times the author was able to afford to take a trip to Walmart. 

No, this was not an exaggeration. When you compare these two situations, it becomes impossible to defend the boss's lifestyle and the level of fairness within this workplace environment. That is exactly why the boss felt threatened, because he knew deep down that it wasn't right.

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  • To make matters worse, it's not like the boss took this opportunity to reconsider the payment structure for his employees. That would have been too idealistic for a story like this. Instead, he decided to make the author feel small and to make him regret having posted the truth out there for the world to see. 

    It sounds like because the employee did not mention the boss by name, he couldn't be reprimanded as easily. However, his boss still found countless ways to make his working experience a living nightmare when he returned to the warehouse after the holiday break. Keep scrolling below for the full story and for the best reactions from several members of this online community.

  • "I’m most likely getting fired for a Facebook post"

    d on Christmas I was d and something in my head told me to make a status along the lines of "no Christmas here this year, just rent and bills." Then a
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  • random Bootlicker commented about how hard everyone has it even businesses, so I replied with "well my boss has been on vacation more times this year than I've been to Walmart." Well
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  • my boss saw it, had a whole company meeting about "Facebook warriors" and glared at me the whole time. Now they're nitpicking everything I do
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  • and attempting to train new people on my machine. (I run a planer at a sawmill.) My supervisor knows I'm the best they have and defends me but they don't want to hear any of it.
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  • Please excuse grammar and punctuation I'm really worked up over this. I just want to know what some of you think of this situation.
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  • Mammoth-Percen... . 9h ago UK here. Start planning your escape, pretty obvious at this stage there's a big target hung on your back. If your direct supervision recognises your value & skill-set your Boss's competition will too. Move on, don't look back.
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  • I used to work as a welder/fabricator at a medium sized workshop, around a hundred staff. One bloke told me a story of how the Boss had delivered a tale
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  • of sorrow about the profitability of the business & how he couldn't afford any pay rises - for the third year in a row. Someone later mentioned that it was funny how a new £300K Aston Martin wasn't a problem &
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  • the £100K a year he spent weekend warrior racing his performance BMW was still ongoing. Some lickspittle shot his mouth off & that bloke was gone the next day. Make a plan & execute it before it happens to you.
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  • maskedman124 • 10h ago Coworkers are not friends and therefore not fb friends. I've been burned by similar situations as well.
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  • Level_Up_IT · 9h ago 1 - I've been there, in fact, I was one of the first Facebook firings in my state back in 2008. I filed for unemployment, the company appealed, and we ended up in unemployment
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  • appeals "court" (it's an administrative hearing with a magistrate who has the same weight as a judge, but whatever). I won with ease as it was a simple 1A issue
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  • and I never specified my boss by name or title. My boss only found out because another employee (who I had on my friends list) was trying to bang our boss and ratted me out. But I got unemployment and she got egg on her face, win-win.
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  • 2) "well my boss has been on vacation more times this year" can easily be construed to refer to any of multiple people (assuming you have multiple superiors) and therefore you'll easily dodge any accusation of libel.
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  • 3) Whenever you start a job, go on Linkedin, FB, whatever socials you use and block everyone you meet at work. Find them and block them before they friend request you.
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  • 4) It sounds like they're going to fire you. Get applications out ASAP, document the hol out of your work, take photos/screenshots of your timecard, etc.
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  • Shaffer92 OP. 9h ago These guys got me feeling. like dirt over this. I appreciate all these comments. I'll let you know how work goes tomorrow (today lol.)
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  • It BenGrimmsThing • 10h ago S ks but people have been getting fired for sh talking about work for years. It used to usually be when a co-worker snitched on a private blog, but by doing it in fb you're snitching on yourself.
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