wonderful, isn't it.

LMAO! as the man said.

If you're stupid enough to put that sort of thing on facebook, you deserve anything you're going to get!...

Funny though... :-)

Muppet!

He should just have posted "I'm still trashed sick" and then he would have additional proof that he was really sick. Because it says so on facebook it must be true.

Tell your boss you were lying on your Facebook account to make yourself look big in front of your friends, but akshully you were really really ill.

I would imagine his contract has something to say about skiving.

My first thought was "Born in 87? He can't be old enough to work!"

Then I did the maths.

*Wow* do I feel old now...

It's changed a bit since I got it early this morning, but the "original" was covered in links for the company in question and that conclusion wasn't there either.

Why does the subject contain the year, but not the month?

Has anyone at El reg actually looked on Facebook to see if this profile is real or not?

I got the email yesterday & while I chuckled I'm not sure its totally real.

I don't have a Facebook account myself, but something about this screams 'viral advertising' at me.

I tried to connect to port 25 of what a DNSreport give as their mailserver to determine if the mailboxes existed (I've got the original email addresses in the signatures which are not on the article), but I'm stuck behind my corp firewall right now so wasn't successful.

Has anyone else verified this as real?

Wasn't that the pampered dog on All Creatures Great and Small....?

Yes, hes is 21, he stole my birthday! but im 10 years older...

Isn't being unfit for work classed as being sick? they seriously cant expect him to drive in that condition... the fact that it is self inflicted is not an issue either as many injuries are self inflicted (ie 'I' fell down the stairs) the issue should be the amount of time he takes off sick, which his employer can advise him is unacceptably high, and which he should do something about. Having a hangover is still being unfit for work.

...for acknowledging the 'epic fail'. When you're caught fair'n'square, be honest/open about it, it gives you grace. Of a sort.

Seriously. That's too awesome for words.

...the way the muppet turns into a total retard in the final message- "LMAO", "Epic Fail", "Facebook"

This year's freshers were born in 1990.

That's the most depressing maths you can ever do.

You work/ed in local government and I claim my 100% Council Tax rebate!

I got caught out on face book for a different reason.

I was a member of a few work related groups on there, including one which made fun of the industry I work in. I put what I considered some innocent jokey comments on the "Fun" one and someone related to my job who had been snooping around on that group reported me to my boss.

I have no idea who it was (Someone who knew me I guess), but my boss could see I was pretty furious about it when he asked me what did I think I was doing, lucky for him he asked me in a polite way as he could see I was bubbling mad as I considered it an invasion of privacy.

So I have since removed myself from every group on there even slightly connected with my job, locked my account down so only people on my friends list can read my profile and pretty much abandoned Facebook.

Yeah, I got wrapped up too much in Facebook and let my guard down, just like the bloke in this article.

It made furious and feel like an idiot as I have always been careful on the internet.

I rarely use my real name on the internet and hardly ever use my personal details. It's not for the stupid reasons above, but more becos it is vital to my work that i'm not noticed :)

Paris.. because even she doesn't know how the internet works.

We once had a guy call in sick with bad guts, later in the day he ordered himself a hot and spicy meat feast pizza using his work email.

It shows the stupidity of some (usually young) idiots, who use sites like this, without considering the level of access to them. No, dear, your friends are not the only people who read your site.

Bosses everywhere routinely Google employees to see what they are up to. What you wrote, or that funny picture of you puking, may be why you didn't get that promotion.

It's almost a standard part of hiring someone, too. I didn't give you that job, because I searched your name, and what you were up to last weekend. I don't want you coming into work with me, if you're recovering from a repeat of that night.

Andthe cops use the internet too, dear. Those wild photos will make great evidence.

you mean to say you didn't have your account locked down to begin with?

no wonder it gets called stalkerbook when people just leave their profiles open for all to see.

We actually used stalkerbook in our recent search for a new employee and one candidate said of his old job something like "it sucks here, i spend my time spinning in my chair and taking loo breaks" ... we didnt take him on.

in reference to the guy in this story though, I'd sack him for it. Hope he does get sacked.

If his contract allows 1 day medial leave can be requested without any evidence, it seems like he's in the clear unless there's a clause that invalidates the medical leave in cases like this.

dunno if the account is real or not, but there's a Kyle Doyle on Myspace with that same picture.

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=58000481

Got this email twice yesterday (i.e. the day before it appeared on the reg), and it was already different.

It is funny, but someone has clearly set to work with photo shop, made up a few emails, and pressed send - nothing more than a viral email (why else has it taken 2 months to surface?!)

A girl I used to work with - a receptionist - did something similar. This was *just* pre-facebook, but our company contract included a section stating that the corporate email system was for work purposes only. It could and would be monitored. In fairness, free access was given during the entire working day to any online email system you cared to use, so there was no reason to use the company mail for anything you shouldn't.

Only numpty girl did. She sent a few mails telling her friends how crap the company was and then decided to throw a sicky after a night on the piss, just as our Australian friend did.

Still on probationary period, she was fired as soon as she walked back in the day after her "sick" day.

Well, he's a Liberal (read: Tory / Republican) and he's only 21. Bless!

What d'ya expect?

Naturally, he shows dignity and comedic values in defeat.. something a non-Liberal (read: Labour/Democrat) can't muster.. Even when they are in their 40s & 50s..

Bless indeed

Totally busted!

Goes to show you shouldn't be using Facebook / MySpace etc. at all.

It seems such sites are a haven for information theft in more ways than I originally thought!

Class!

"Actually, he WAS sick, it was just self-induced. Does his contract specifically exclude self-induced sickness? I doubt it. Last contract I checked certainly didn't think to exclude it."

I guess that they would have to explicitly exclude hangovers, because in reality breaking your leg whilst skiing is a self-induced 'sickness'