*You receive a friend’s request on facebook from someone you don’t really care for
*then you finally get the guts to deny it 4 days later
* but then you somewhat regret it because now it’s awkward at work because it was a coworker.......
Fortunately for me this hasn’t happened ….yet. But then again I don’t go looking to add my colleagues either. I just feel like you shouldn’t mix work with pleasure in this situation. I’ve seen too many accidents this way.
Awhile ago my coworker went home early due to a sudden feeling of sickness. She posted on her facebook the next afternoon- “Thank you family for the wonderful birthday dinner.” My supervisor (that just so happened to be on her friend’s list) saw that and jumped to conclusions. He made up his own theory and accused her of lying about her sickness just to attend to her birthday dinner. It was a big ol' mess and got other coworkers on their defensive side. He actually had the nerve to confront her about it and questioned the meaning behind her status. Is that even allowed?? Luckily she didn’t get in trouble because that wouldn’t really hold up as a probable case to fire her. (especially being that there was no way to prove that she physically went out to a restaurant or anything.) I mean, for all we know she was sick and her family could have brought her dinner to her place. Maybe they made her chicken noodle soup and picked fresh oranges straight from their yard and squeezed her some orange juice. That would deserve a fb status shout out, don't you think. There's always 2 sides to a story, you know. Well, sure enough, the next day my coworker made sure to take him straight off her friend’s list.
The funny part, my supervisor was actually surprised and offended. (note- he's a very young supervisor.....23. So, that may explain the slight immaturity.) Did he really expect anything less??
If I would of foreseen this incident (some magical way) I could of given her the secret to my trick tactic. About a year ago a coworker that I worked closely with asked to add me on facebook. I lied and said that I didn’t have one. She didn't believe me and shrugged it off by saying, "It's okay if you don't want to add me. I see how it is." I had to laugh it off and insist that I really didn't have one (yeah right, right? Who doesn't have one in this day and age??) because if not....well, it just would be awkward at work. I liked her as a coworker and everything but some things I just don't like to share outside of work. I just explained to her that I didn't really have time to make one due to the fact that we cut our cable and internet. (That was a true statement and everyone knew that.) She fell for it and let me off the hook.
I thought of a brilliant idea as I was driving home. I'll just make another one but it will be my work one only for colleagues......and other people that I don't really care to have all up in my personal life. So, I made my "fake one" and the next day I told her I made one just for her and she could now add me. She was excited and couldn't wait to see my pics and other friends I added and post all over my wall. Just as I expected....pure noisiness..haha. That's the main reason I didn't really want to add her in the first place. She was the noisy coworker that knew everything about everyone and shared your business with anybody that cared to ask....ie...a gossiper. Those are the ones that you need to avoid at all possible when it comes to accepting them as your friend on your real FB.
Well, sure enough everybody at work found me on that girl's page and added me. It kind of worked out for me because it would steer them clear away from any close trail they had to my real one....not that they would of found me anyway because it wasn't even under my real name....hehe.
I have 70+ people on that fb account a year later from the day I made it. Out of those people I only care for maybe 5 or 6 of them. The rest (including my supervisor) are just sitting there with me taking up space on their friend's list. I gave up updating my status and adding pics a long time ago. I figured why put in the effort? I'm not trying to ruin my image at work or make my self look different then what they expected of me. Not that I have anything that would, but just saying. I'm not that dumb unlike some people.....
I have some coworkers that have little outings with eachother and they post pictures of them drinking together getting wasted drunk. In those pictures it's kind of incriminating for everybody and looks really bad.......especially when their profiles aren't private. There's this one girl that likes to grab butts and breasts whens she's tipsy and there are definitely pictures on her profile to prove all the fun she's captured. Then she wonders why she has advanced from her position or never gets that promotion she's looking for. Hmmmm.....
So, what have we learned today? Make a fake facebook page and you're life will be easier. :)
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