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REAL LIFE NEWS: DON'T MENTION YOUR BORING JOB

by Hazed

Is your job boring? Probably. Most jobs are. Unless you're lucky enough to be a rockstar, and I imagine even they get bored sometimes, in the bits between the live shows and the groupies.

But you'd better not say so... at least not on Facebook, as one very unfortunate young woman from Essex, UK, found out recently. She described her job as an office administrator as "boring" in a Facebook posting - and her bosses sacked her for it!

Kimberley Swann, 16 years old, was summoned by the head honcho at her company, Ivell Marketing & Logistics, on Monday morning, and given the push. She was handed a letter which read, "Following your comments made on Facebook about your job and the company we feel it is better that, as you are not happy and do not enjoy your work we end your employment with Ivell Marketing & Logistics with immediate effect."

Kimberley was shocked at being dismissed in so perfunctory a fashion, just because of a comment she made on a personal site that had nothing to do with work. She said, "I did not even put the company's name, I just put that my job was boring. They were just being nosy, going through everything. I think it is really sad, it makes them look stupid that they are going to be so petty."

Stephen Ivell, owner of the company, responded that the "global product development and sourcing company" had done everything "by the book". He said, "It is just a shame that it did not work out because she is a lovely girl. For a small company, when a decision is made, one thinks long and hard about it."

Not all that long and hard, obviously! What next - are companies going to start following you to the pub to eavesdrop when you sound off about what a day you've had?

I sincerely hope Kimberley takes the company to court for this outrageous dismissal.

Update: after I wrote this story, most of the UK daily newspapers reported it with a bit more information. Apparently, two of the comments she made about her job were, "im so totally bord" and "I onli started Monday... its in sum office". So her boss would have been justified in sacking her for not being able to spell!

But the funniest thing of all is that Kimberley reported that one of the reasons she was given for her sacking was, "I have seen your comments on Facebook and I don't want my company being in the news." Well, that went well, didn't it, Mr Ivell of Ivell Marketing & Logistics - even the Fed2 Star has heard of you now!

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