Facebook surfing while sick costs woman job

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Facebook surfing while sick costs woman job
Fri Apr 24, 12:13 pm ET

ZURICH (Reuters) – A Swiss insurance worker lost her job after surfing popular social network site Facebook while off sick, her employer said Friday.

The woman said she could not work in front of a computer as she needed to lie in the dark but was then seen to be active on Facebook, which insurer Nationale Suisse said in a statement had destroyed its trust in the employee.

"This abuse of trust, rather than the activity on Facebook, led to the ending of the work contract," it said.

The unnamed woman told the 20 Minuten daily she had been surfing Facebook in bed on her iPhone and accused her employer of spying on her and other employees by sending a mysterious friend request which allows access to personal online activity.

Nationale Suisse rejected the accusation of spying and said the employee's Facebook activity had been stumbled across by a colleague in November, before use of the social network site was blocked in the company.

(Reporting by Emma Thomasson, editing by Paul Casciato)

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LOL

Some people are just card carrying man...

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Wait, I'm confused. She was sick at home, unable to work, and browsing Facebook and they fired her for that? Or was she WORKING from home and possibly connected to a VPN and working? If she took off to work from home then I can see their issue with that. She's claiming hours while she's browsing the web.

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that is messed up

what if her roommate was using the computer and it wasn't even her? pretty flimsy proof of anything