Facebook is also home to groups called "Farm Boy's Farm Hands" and "I Have Been Terminated From Farm Boy." Both these groups feature the corporate logo. Members of all the groups frequently use their full names.
On Friday, Devon Bourgeois was called into his store manger's office at the Kanata Farm Boy and shown copies of posts he had written Nov. 13.
"I particularly was confronted for, and terminated for, admission of theft, which, based on the posts I had written, was under a hypothetical topic known as 'Only at Farm Boy' had these situations occurred," he said.
NOT A 'CONFESSION'
"My post was taken to be literal and as a confession, which it never was."
During more than two years with the company, Bourgeois was promoted to supervisor and given three raises.
"I was not a bad employee, I did not break rules," he said. "That's why I didn't understand why I was terminated so quickly."
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Workers Fired Over Internet Postings
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Posting on company time perhaps?
I remember a story in the Vancouver media, probably 35 or so years ago, when a salesman of Coca Cola was fired on the spot, when he asked another for a bottle of "burpee" referring to a bottle of Coke.
As far I was concerned, my guys were welcome to call me anything, as long as they did their job and it made them feel good. But then, I also called them a few choice names from my rather extensive vocabulary, so everybody was happy and when they phone me now, 30 years later, they say it was the happiest workplace of their lives. And they worked their asses off.
Ed Deak.
You are increasingly the exception, Ed.
I wonder how the $8/hr. Home Depot employee feels about it's ex-CEO Robert Nardelli' $200 million severance package......?
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