15+ Employees who got fired for their social media posts: 'Girl called out last minute... she was posting pics from Six Flags'

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Remy Millisky • Writer and Editor
Mar 9, 2026 11:00 AM EDT

Many of us overshare on social media to a dramatic degree, and as it turns out, your boss doesn't like to see that. 

The way a person uses the internet is totally dependent on when they were born. For many of us, internet safety skills were pounded into our heads at a young age. But a lot of younger folks have been born and raised online, and are happy to overshare a lot all the time. There seems to be nothing they won't share with their audience of thousands of random strangers. 

This becomes a real issue if the things you're ranting about in your TikTok videos are also your real-life workplace dramas! 

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  • Many people are under contracts with their workplaces, totally unaware that they aren't allowed to make statements online about their employer. Since they either don't know or don't care — and certainly can't imagine their bosses finding their posts — they gleefully opine on their various social media platforms. Even those who talk bad about their bosses or coworkers under pseudonymous accounts, or by referring to their workplace without naming it, will be in hot water after the boss finds it. As you'll see with these stories, even a post with like, under 10 words complaining about a boring meeting can be reason enough to fire an employee. 

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    Irritated boss looks at employee who's taking a selfie at the office.
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    Irritated boss looks at employee who's taking a selfie at the office.

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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    Girl...

    Bodi78 I worked with a girl who called out last minute saying her Grandfather had just passed away, they told her to take the day off and be with her family.. A few hours later she was posting pics from 6 Flags... She was let go when she returned to work
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    xkrazyxcourtneyx I'm a server and bartender. An old job of mine had a couple of older women that were absolutely miserable to serve. They were nice enough. But, god forbid you messed up their drink or food order. Then they did a 180 and were absolute • And they ordered some wild sh. We would have drink specials every
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    night and they would have all of these modifications on them. Anywho, a server really hated serving them. He made a Facebook post joking about spitting in their drinks. The dumba was friends with other regulars from the bar. They told the ladies and the owner. Dude was fired the next day.
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    football13tb Coworker got fired for posing PHI. (Protected health information).
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    This was some next-level sabotage

    Walmartian_Beta Many years ago, my husband had a blog on WordPress. He never mentioned his workplace or anyone he worked with by name.
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    One of his co-workers found the blog, and printed out multiple entries, especially posts about how he felt unfulfilled at work. There was a post about him getting into trouble at work for reading a book while waiting in his machinery (he worked at a steel mill and had a lot of downtime between pours). He made a
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    comment that his boss had probably never read a book in his life and lamented that he worked with a bunch of redneck morons. And fired.
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    BananaMama97 I don't think they got fired. but a coworker of mine when I worked at a hospital got written up for commenting and sharing a news article about one of the doctors crashing into a house and then driving away... leaving the scene of the crime. Then we had a "team meeting" about it and we were all to NOT talk
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    about it or discuss it with anyone. And then ALLEGEDLY two higher ups got fired/forced to resign after another on the management team caught them in an office at work having their affair and that made its rounds online and we all go told to never interact with those posts or we'd be in trouble if we did.
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    Ready for some piping hot tea?

    RevBT I'm a pastor and a now- former colleague did an anonymous newspaper article about being a polyamorous pastor. It was easy to figure out who he was.
    via RevBT

    This is obviously sad for the wife, but unfortunately that is a very funny situation. Did he… just not understand that if both people in the relationship don't agree to a poly relationship, that it's just regular old cheating? Bro… please bro… You're making my head hurt from trying to figure out your logic here. 

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    And when it all came out it he was practicing polyamory without telling his wife. He lost his job as clergy, lost his wife, and his affair partner.
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    WitchesS I worked for an auto oem and someone took pics from a plant of a not to production car and posted them. Summary termination. That and theft where the only immediate terminations the company had yet people would do it.
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    Odd-Worth7752 Our hospital fired 3 nurses for social media posts about patients
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    Remember those TikToks that went around where nurses were sharing their patient "icks"? And they were talking about the things they don't like doing for patients? And then they lost their jobs? Yeah, good riddance to them. Not sure if these nurses got fired for the same reasons or not! But medical professionals have to be super careful about what they're posting in order to protect the very patients they're supposed to be helping. 

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    Young employee takes TikTok video with ringlight.
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    Young employee takes TikTok video with ringlight.

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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    Alarming-Ad9441 Not fired, but I did get written up once a couple years ago for a comment on a social media post from a local news channel. It wasn't even anything serious, not even against my employer, it was commenting against local government for not declaring a state of emergency during a serious flooding event that put my
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    coworkers at risk on their commute to work that day. I had a brand new supervisor who was very much less than qualified, extremely aggressive, and vulgar. She took it too far, her preceptor actually thought my comment was funny, but had to support her choice to write me up. That supervisor
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    got fired, rehired at a lower position, and fired again within a few months. I'm still there and have had zero issues since.
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    inkseep1 It wasn't really a post but she got on TV. She took a sick day and went christmas shopping. While at the stores, a TV reporter asked her about her shopping experience and it ended up on the local news. A manager saw her on the
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    news shopping when she was supposed to be out sick and she was fired. Lost a good paying union job with a pension over that.
    via inkseep1
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    drumallday My (ex) BF had a female member of his friend group who was infatuated by him. She was always throwing herself at him and treated me like her rival. BF and I were on a cruise (no data or phone signal) and when we returned, he got a message that she had been fired from her job. She worked for a PR firm and complained about a
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    client on her private Twitter account. Someone took a screenshot of her post and left it on the desk of the CEO of the firm who promptly fired her. She told the entire friend group that I was the one who had done it. My boyfriend knew this was impossible as he had
    via drumallday
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    been with me the entire time on the cruise. Then she told everyone that I must have had someone hack her account. I was pretty certain this was done by someone from IT in her own office who was asked to find a fireable offense. Seems like a no-brainer that when you work in PR, don't use social media to trash talk your client
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    Young woman snaps selfie.
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    Young woman snaps selfie.

    The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.

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    This is the best story out of them all

    runtimemess Worked for a security company. One of the mobile supervisors brought a racoon into the patrol car and posted it to his Instagram story. Drove around with him in the passenger seat for a little while
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    What in tarnation was she thinking?

    A Yes. My wife had an employee who was kind of an idiot, a prima donna who thought she was far more important than she actually was. She was in a meeting called by the company president and posted something on Facebook to the effect of,
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    "Holy sh, I'm so bored. These things are such an idiotic waste of my time." She forgot the president was one of her friends on Facebook. He went back to his desk, saw her post, and fired her immediately. And that's kind of surprising, because he was kind of a mild-mannered guy.
    via AnybodySeeMyKeys

    Great life lesson. Let's never refer to meetings as "wastes of time" in front of those who are hosting said meeting! 

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    BigBlueF150 I use to work for a certain beverage company and we had to sign contracts that outside of work activities, we would not use our competitors products while on the clock or in company uniforms.
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    A delivery driver was fired because he had purchased competitor products and had them in his personal car while on the clock. Another employee was written up because he ate at a restaurant that didn't serve our beverages while on company time and was spotted by a manager. The soda wars are something else.
    via BigBlueF150
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    MercDawg Ship was decommissioning, so I posted something like "Can't wait" under the official post. Got chewed out for it the next day.
    via MercDawg
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    BlueTourmeline Oooh. Here's a pre-social media equivalent from nearly 30 years ago. I worked for a book publishing company that was then owned by a larger media company. A fairly new publicity assistant changed her first and last name to something that would belong on the r/tragedeigh subreddit if shared today.
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    But she did share it, and the colorful reasons why she did so, in an email that went not only to everyone at the reasonably large book company, but to everyone at the very large media company, who would have absolutely no reason to have contact with her, ever. One would hope that someone in publicity would know when and how to share news, but
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    she did not. Fired on the spot, and we were all told. that if we shared this email or I think even the existence of the email, our own jobs would be in jeopardy.
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    N Not for a post but I know these people who went to a Coldplay concert and.........
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