Boss Fires Employee For Posting “Revealing” Pictures On Her Instagram, Asks If They Are Wrong For It
Instagram modeling is becoming a big deal now. People are making so much money that they don’t have to even look towards the corporate world or consider what we call “a proper job.”. There is one problem with said arrangement, though. If you make Instagram posts that are not appropriate for everyone to see, be it for any reason, and also want to do a corporate job like working as a marketeer for an event planning company, then the two cannot gel together.
In today’s story, Reddit user quayarlanda, an event planning business owner, shared that after hiring Olivia as replacement for a very good employee, he was very satisfied with her work. The clients reviewed her very well too. However, when she, just like all other employees, was asked to make social media posts to promote the business, OP found that her private account was filled with what he referred to as “provocative underwear pictures”. Being an Insgtagram model, posting such pictures was a common routine for OP. When warned to remove these pictures as they ruined OP’s business’ reputation Olivia didn’t stop and ended up getting fired.
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1. Let’s find out!
2. After his ex-wife and he divorced, OP had to hire a new set of employees in her place to run his successful event planning business.
3. OP and the team became a family in no time. However, one of the employees got pregnant and decided to leave the company. OP then hired Olivia, the center of today’s story.
4. Olivia had experience and quickly became the clients’ favorite due to his brilliant abilities and work ethic. She was a great hire.
5. Part of the job for the employees was to make social media posts on their Instagram accounts for clients. While this was no issue for other employees who had family photos on their private accounts, Olivia was an amateur underwear model and had her photoshoots on her account.
He was conducting business through the private social media accounts of his employees. Am I a little tipsy, or have I got this right? Because if I have got this right, then I think the business owner is a big dummy. Who in their right mind wouldn’t create separate business accounts for their employees to do social media promotions and marketing? The other one is my private Instagram account, which I can use for whatever I want. Perhaps Olivia makes more money doing underwear modeling as compared to what she is making at OP’s event planning business. You never know the facts.
I know we have reached nowhere in this story yet but I would confidently say that he cannot question or make Olivia stop posting those pictures on her Instagram. If he wants her to make social media posts for the business, then he must provide her with a separate business account, not linked to her private one.
Let’s see what happens next. Scroll down below to continue reading!
Source: Reddit
6. OP warned Olivia to stop posting such pictures on her Instagram, as it ruined his business’ reputation. She did stop, but only temporarily.
7. During COVID quarantine, when the business was extremely busy, Olivia kept posting her underwear pictures on her account.
8. OP ended up firing Olivia as her Instagram photos were only making matters worse for the business. The matter was taken to the courts of the AITA community.
Source: Reddit
Here’s what the internet had to say about this:
9. OP’s foolishness lost him an A-class employee.
Via 1qaz0plmgh
10. Provide your team with work accounts if you want them to make social media posts.
Via openlycruel
11. OP could’ve dictated that his team members shouldn’t give their private Instagram accounts to business clients. But he did the exact opposite.
Via justmy2centsforyou
12. That is far too intimate for a client relationship unless there is a specific social media account for the entire company.
Via idontwanttothinkof1
13. Most employers have a clause about being able to fire you because of your posts.
Via relevantinterests
14. It is so difficult to build a close relationship with customers only for them to leave suggestive comments on innocent photos.
Via fireflyfly3
15. Unfair to the employee, should’ve devised a better strategy. But certainly not right for the business.
Via YeahLikeTheGroundhog
16. I would like to disagree. He made her link her private account with the business. She did what he asked her to do.
Via Redditor
17. This is the same situation, more or less.
Via Redditor
18. Shouldn’t this have been sorted out before she got the offer letter?
Via iNOyThCagedBirdSings
19. Point.
Via Alarmed_Restaurant
20. OP needs to update his policy guidelines and provide employees with business accounts to make social media posts.
Via crew_ahead_slices
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