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Employee Fired Over Facebook Status Asks National Labor Relations Board for Help

Published on June 2, 2011 in Facebook.com news. 0 Comments

An employee of a Chicago-area automobile dealership who was fired after posting critical commentary about the company on his Facebook page has asked the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for help in contesting his unjust job termination.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) meanwhile, after a thorough review of the case of the fired car salesman from the Karl Knauz BMW dealership in Lake Bluff, Illinois has filed their own complaint against the car dealership questioning the reason behind the firing.

The fired car salesman has posted on his Facebook wall some complaints regarding what he considers as “lame food and drinks” that was served at a recent event held by the car dealership to promote the latest BMW model. He felt that the meals and bottled mineral water from Sam’s Club hot dogs are not the appropriate food choices suitable for hyping an event promoting a luxury car model and expresses concerns that the sales of the new BMW model will suffer because of that questionable decision by the management.

The commentary of the fired car salesman was backed up by photographic evidence of the said event. The management after finding about it asked the salesman to pull down his post, to which he obliged and deleted it after. However, even after deleting the said post the management still decided to fire the salesman. The NLRB in its complaint argued that the incident should not become a ground for job termination since Facebook posting is included in the “protected concerted activity” clause of the employees rights which any employer does not have the right to retaliate for.

An official from the Karl Knauz BMW dealership was contacted for comments but could only say “I don’t know anything about that.”

Fans of Captain Sullenberger go berserk on Facebook

Published on January 23, 2009 in Facebook.com news. 1 Comment Tags: .

Captain Sullenberger landed a plane on the Hudson River and landed his place on the hearts of people on Facebook. He’s our new hero! Captain Sullenberger saved hundreds of his passenger’s lives when he successfully landed that plane on the Hudson River at the time when the world wants to hear at least one good news.

On facebook there are many fans that created fan pages for Sullenberger as a tribute to his heroism. What he did to save his passengers can never be compensated. He saved hundreds of lives that day and many facebook members are showing their gratitude by creating fan pages and joining these fan pages. In one of the fan pages created for him, he got over 51,000 members already.

Now, if you are asked who the most popular pilot in the world is, you’d know what to answer. Captain Sullenberger became an instant celebrity and after just a few days he gathered enough facebook member fans to proclaim him as the most popular pilot of today.

For sure those passengers aboard that plane who also have facebook accounts had already joined. For sure they are so grateful with this man who gave them a second chance in life and a great story to tell their kids and their grandchildren and great grandchildren. For Captain Sullenberger, he can show his family how many facebook fans he got on his several facebook fan pages and for sure he is very happy with the people’s gratitude to what he did. It’s all in a day’s job, he might say, but for us it’s a miracle on Earth.

Facebook user might be sued for posting operation room photographs

Published on August 23, 2008 in Facebook.com news. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Social networking websites such as Facebook are used by many to post their recent pictures so that they can share their latest and unique experiences that they’ve been through. But recently, a Swedish nurse took her “sharing moment” a little too far. She just published photos of her inside the operating room while they were doing a back operation and a brain surgery. All photos were posted on account in Facebook.

She is probably expecting admiring comments telling how cool she is or how they admire her. But it turned into something that she didn’t actually expect. The Swedish medical establishments were now angry of what she did. According to the neurosurgery chief of Karolinska University Hospital located in Stockholm, the event violated the ethical codes.

After the photos were revealed and seen in Facebook, the staff at the hospital was called for an emergency meeting. They were reminded about the basic ethical codes and that they need to respect the privacy of their patients. The hospital said that they were still thinking whether to report her to the police or have her dismissed. Currently, the unnamed nurse has already been suspended and the pictures were already deleted from Facebook.

All cameras are banned inside the operating room unless the photos and videos will be used specifically for educational purposes. It appears that the suspended nurse used the camera on her mobile phone to take the pictures. Fortunately, she never took a picture of the patient or she would be facing a bigger problem.

Facebook in Different Languages

Published on July 23, 2008 in Facebook.com news. 0 Comments Tags: , .

Facebook has definitely gone global. This is the reason why its developers are launching translations of the social networking site in different languages. It started with Facebook in Spanish, which was launched last January of 2008. Since then, the Internationalization department has been busy translating the site into sixteen more languages.

To date, Facebook is now available in German, French, Japanese, Italian, Chinese and a lot more. Expect more languages supported in the future. The language selector is located at the footer of any Facebook page.

Facebook’s goal is to bring the web site in the native language of the users. To do this, Facebook worked with the community to help translate it into other languages. It came out with a Translations Application so that the users can translate, review and vote on Translations in their native language. Once the translation is complete and the quality is verified by the community, the language will be launched for all Facebook users. Currently there are 63 languages open for translation.

Translating Facebook in native languages will help it in its attempt to be the world’s number one social networking site. Check out the Translations Application to find out if your native language is included in the list of translations.