Negative comments on Facebook, Apple Employee Fired

A worker in the UK Apple Store was fired for writing negative posts about Apple and its products on Facebook. The employees do not accept and submit the case to the Employment Tribunal's UK agency workers, but the agency sided with Apple.

Employees who are only known by his pseudonym is reasonable Crisp was fired because he did not deserve to write comments that are not in working hours. In addition, he also wrote it not in order to be distributed to the public.

Reported by Cnet and quoted on Wednesday (2/11/2011), posts that are not mentioned as to what his sentence was leaked to the Apple Store manager's ear. Because they can defame the reputation of the company, Crisp was fired.
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UK Employment Tribunal itself sided with Apple because they think the text can be read by many parties. Since its inception, Apple employees are informed of the ban also commented on Apple in social networking.

"In the recruitment process has been explained that the comments about Apple's product or brand is strictly prohibited. Comments can be considered damaging to the image of Apple," according to the law firm Addleshaw Goddard LPP on the case.

Apple is known to be very tight to protect the brand and its image. Even recently, a coffee shop in Germany warned that its logo is seen similar to the Apple logo.