Social Media Costs -- and Some Workers Are Paying With Their Jobs

Tenth-grade math teacher Carly McKinney posted racy photos and tweets about marijuana. She was ultimately fired.

California Pizza Kitchen server Timothy DeLaGhetto claims he was fired for tweeting about the company's "lamest ever" new uniforms.

Perhaps most pertinent to CIO.com readers, two male software developers at a PyCon conference joked about "big dongles" and "forking" -- sexual innuendos with a tech twist -- overheard by SendGrid tech developer Adria Richards. She was offended, took a picture of them and tweeted it. One of the men was fired. Hackers exposed Richards' private information before she was fired for "publicly shaming the offenders," SendGrid CEO Jim Franklin wrote in a blog post.

It's not just the working-class portion of the organizational chart, either. CTO Pax Dickinson at Business Insider was fired in September for making racial slurs and rape jokes on TwitterTwitter. Also, CFO Gene Morphis at publicly traded fashion retailer Francesca's Holdings Corp. lost his job last year for casually tweeting about company information. Alles zu Twitter auf CIO.de

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