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Foul! Nasty tweets to Steph Curry’s family cost a Cavs fan his job.

Yep, that’s me honey dipping like Vince Carter. I’m an animal on the court. Especially, when the rim is set at seven six five feet at the local Children’s museum. So, yes, I’m more of a fan. But, I’m passionate about hoops. Sometimes, I even get carried away. Like that…

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Can a plaintiff change her social media privacy settings after filing a lawsuit?

Sure, she can. But, could that lead to court-ordered sanctions? Say it with me, “It depends.” [Cue music] In this post at the Technology and Marketing Law Blog, Venkat Balasubramani, examines a recent decision in Thurmond v. Bowman, where a NY federal magistrate judge rolled up her sleeves and examined a party’s duty…

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A pro golfer gets his revenge on Twitter; causes a heckler to lose his job.

He got the hook, all right. Or, you could say that his position was sliced. Boo-yah! I mean, Baba Booey! Hey, I’ll be here all week. I was going to start the week with this story from Del Milligan at TheLedger.com. But, then, that whole HR getting sued for FMLA violations thing caught my…

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Can you force an employee to delete critical tweets about the company? NLRB says no.

Folks, it’s been a real crappy 2016 for Chipotle. Critical tweets about work get deleted. Last year, Chipotle’s National Social Media Strategist saw a series of tweets from a Chipotle employee working just outside of Philadelphia. The tweets had a common theme: working conditions: One of Kennedy’s tweets included a news…

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Lady Murderface’s Yelp for Help on Social Media Costs Her a Job…at Yelp

(See what I did there? We’ll get to the Lady Murderface part soon enough). On Sunday, may Google Alert for “Fired AND Facebook OR Twitter” yielded several related stories that scratched my itch: “I can’t afford to buy groceries”: Yelp fired an employee after her scathing open letter to the CEO –…

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The 24/7 world of social media can bite your employees when they least expect it

The list of employees who have lost their jobs because of social media mistakes, well, it’s long. I’ll get you started here and here and here. Whether it’s on or off the clock, being outspoken — to put it mildly — on social media, doesn’t end well often. But, most social media missteps…

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Yes, employees can fight workplace harassment with social media

It’s almost 2016. By now, who among us: the lawyers, the HR professionals, the owners (Hi there, Mark Cuban, thanks for reading again today), has yet to deal with an allegation of workplace harassment involving social media. Why, just yesterday, I read about an employee who lost his job for going…

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What it really means to be Facebook friends with co-workers

It may not mean that much. What are the risks of becoming Facebook “friends” with a co-worker? The well-worn employer-lawyer mantra from way back when has been, “Supervisors should not ‘friend’ their subordinates on Facebook.” For a while, I sipped that Kool Aid too. Imagine two of the risks that could…

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As a social-media-nerd employment lawyer, this one has me shakin’ my head.

In Pennsylvania, the Rules of Professional Conduct require that an attorney must stay abreast of changes in changes in the law, including the benefits of advances in technology. LinkedIn was founded over 10 years ago. If you’re reading this and you are not familiar with LinkedIn … I mean, geez. For…

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“Off-the-clock” discriminatory Facebook messages can create a hostile work environment

As I type this post, I’m watching two of my kids — one dressed as Olaf; the other Elsa — yelling at each other to stop singing Frozen tunes. Now, they’re wrestling — I don’t remember that from the movie. For a snowman, that Olaf is pretty tough. Oh, damn!…