Sunday, September 13, 2009

Even if Dave doesn't listen to me, somebody does

This past week I encountered something that shocked me. While walking from the gym to another part of the mall I saw a gentleman sneak between two Pepsi/Coke machines and light up a joint. How do I know? Dude, it smelled! I've been to enough rock concerts to know what marijuana smells like. Here's the real kicker...it was a guy who works at a restaurant at the mall whose uniform is obvious. There is an employee smoking area at the mall so the fact that he was "hiding" and smoking solidifies what I smelled. I was so appalled that I gave explicit details about what I had seen on my Facebook status.

This afternoon I got a Facebook e-mail from someone I didn't know. To my surprise it was from the manager at that restaurant who saw my status and wanted to assure me that they have a strict drug-free policy and once it is found out who was breaking this policy he/she would be fired. The manager asked me to follow through in the future if I see one of the employees breaking policy again.

What a fantastic manager to be on the internet searching to see what people are saying about their specific location. What a great way to improve performance and reputation at their facility. Social media at its finest. Or maybe it's worst?

5 comments:

Michelle said...

wow! interesting . . . .

Molly said...

Wow. Yeah, I'd have to say the internet at its worst.

D said...

Wait a second... how did the manager see it? Isn't your fb private?

Meredith said...

Currently my Facebook is not private. As a business owner I think it's up to me to self-monitor what I say. Plus, I have nothing to hide.

Val said...

Hehe. Big Brother IS watching you. And you. And you. And so is your boss. And his boss. And her boss. And your mother. And...