From Computerworld, May 4, 2009...
Do you doubt that things move fast in our highly connected world? In mid-March, someone with the username of "theconnor" posted a public tweet on Twitter: "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work."
Tim Levad at Cisco saw the tweet and replied, "Who is the hiring manager. I'm sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web." And that same day, someone else established the Web site CiscoFatty.com and shared the story. No one seems to know whether theconnor (or Cisco Fatty, if you prefer) took the job or not, but he or she did learn a lesson and instituted some privacy settings on Twitter.
Of course, there's a lesson for us all -- to watch what we say and to whom.
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