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John posted a rant on Facebook, due to the fact, he was upset with the company’s most important customer. Facebook is a social networking and social media. It is known for upset American workers to sometimes post their gripes of their workplace experience. When American workers’ post a rant discussing their problematic situations on Facebook, blogging can spread amongst areas within and outside the company areas. Facebook blogging is an unrestricted segment for permitting communication and not looked upon as an area to vent out their feelings toward situations in their workplace.

Moreover, there are company polices John are mandated to sign, as well as all other employees required to attend company policy meetings. When using Facebook or blogging on the internet, it is not use to criticize the company or employees. All blogs and other public internet communications are subject to other policies contained in the company handbook. The most important fact, employers hire employees “at will”.

There is a policy for sharing content of Facebook and it is called Intellectual Property. According to (Facebook Corporation, 2014), before sharing content on Facebook, please be sure to have the right to do so. John blasting out the company most important customer more than likely cause harm to the company profitability. As a Chief Operating Officer, I would explain to John what profitable damages he caused the company and fire him.

Jim, Ellen, Bill and secretaries all expresses some form of boycott against their company. Whether it was protesting about bonuses, pay raises, or software issues. According to (Halbert, 2012), employment-at-will is a legal rule that developed in the nineteenth century, giving employers unfettered p...

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...d to disclose it elsewhere – to the media or the relevant regulator, for example

Works Cited

DryBurgh, M. (2009, Spring). Personal and Policy Implications of Whistle-Blowing. Pubilc Integrity, pp. 11(2):155-170. Available from: Academic Search Complete. Ipswich, MA. Accessed May 1, 2014.
Facebook Corporation. (2014). Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/policies/.
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer. (2013, May). What makes a good whistleblowing policy and why it is important. Retrieved from http://www.freshfields.com/uploadedFiles/SiteWide/Knowledge/Whistleblowing.pdf.
Halbert, T. &. (2012). Law & Ethics in the Business Environment. Mason, OH: South Western Cengage Learning.
Informa.com. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.informa.com/Documents/Corporate%20Responsibility/Code%20of%20Ethics/Whistle%20Blowing%20Oct%202011.pdf.

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