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Discuss “Be careful what you post on Facebook”

When Kevin Colvin, an intern at Irish Anglo Bank, called off work before Halloween, saying “something came up,” he probably wasn’t expecting his boss to monitor his actual activities on Facebook.

But Colvin’s boss did, in fact, check Colvin’s Facebook profile. He found photos of him at a Halloween party at the same time Colvin was supposed to be tending to his unknown issue. The photo showed Colvin dressed as a fairy, holding a magic wand in one hand and a can of chilled beer in the other. According to valleywag.com, the boss responded in an e-mail, “Hope everything is ok… (cool wand),” and BCC’d the rest of the office, attaching the photo of Colvin.

While Colvin did lie to his boss and failed to even reasonably cover his...

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