Friday, 09 November 2012
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Should You Friend Your Boss On Facebook?
I was reading an article about how 20% of people say they are friends with their boss on facebook.
Apparently half of the people said they initiated the friendship with their boss. Here is the link: LinkShould you friend your boss on Facebook?
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It would really depend. I want to say No, though.
If your boss friends you, you had best say yes. If they don't, I wouldn't go out of my way to friend them.
Send them saucy messages for promotions!
Definitely not. Take this girl as a lesson learned: http://www.blogcdn.com/www.urlesque.com/media/2009/08/facebook-fail-1250005885.jpg lol
Nope. Terrible idea.
I think in most cases it's probably a phenomenally bad idea.
I would get fired so fast.
I'm not friends with my bosses on Facebook. Hell, I'm still not even friends with some of my favorite professors from college. I do have them connected on LinkedIn, though.
I am friends with my boss on Facebook, but there are a lot of things I keep private. It's easier and safer that way. *nods*
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It depends on your relationship with them. I've only ever friended one or two bosses/supervisors.
I've done it to 3 different bosses, and I would say no. The first two were my choice and one of them I actually lived with. The third one friended me, and as much as I wanted to say no, I accepted anyway. I don't do a lot of things that a boss would frown upon, but I do like to post about not wanting to go to work - which apparently they frown upon.
I was not aware that being friends with your boss on FB was allowed. Maybe that's just high school teachers, though. I wouldn't want to, just because I usually post crude and embarrassing photos/quotes of myself and friends on mine and that would probably give off the wrong impression.
A few of bosses are easy going and really fun to talk to just like they are friends with us. If I had a boss like that then yeah I would. BUT I never had a professor in my fb hell no :p
at my job we have a no fraternization policy so we are not allowed to do that. im friends with my old bosses on fb though
no way in hell..
I love my job, but I dont want my boss to know all my stuff. Now, if I was friends with a boss before fb, I would.. but I normally dont. I normally will wait until I leave and then friend them if I still want to.
Only if you already have incriminating photos of them!
If you are careful and a brown-holer yes. It's a way to get ahead. I was invited out for drinks by VPs at Lehman and I went. Turning them down isn't a good idea but you have to then tow the line over beers when you'd rather be somewhere else.
Corporate politics are worse than government politics. If you don't play along you're gone.
Not if they play Farmville.
with my former boss? never. but that's only because she was an enormously unpleasant lady.
but i did like her public page, so i get to stalk the happenings at my former job without committing to a full-fledged facebook friendship (say that 5 times fast).
Meh I would, I keep my facebook pretty decent and otherwise I don't have much to hide. I friended my professors. I'm not a whiner on facebook, so you probably won't see me complaining about work or going to work.
No! I had my boss come on line once on another system and he tried to trick me into doing something I wasn't supposed to according to my contract. I came out okay but what if it had gone another way? The best thing in the world to do is leave home at home and work at work. Oh you can go out to coffee, visit each others family's, but before you put something on line that he/she MIGHT could read and approve or disapprove best just not to friend them. In fact, if I thought he was even on Facebook I would use a pseudonymn. Xanga is a bit different, although he could read something I would rather he not know, it would probably be in the comment section and for him to spend hours trying to find something chances are 1 in 100,000.
Noooooo.