{"id":728897,"date":"2010-05-18T16:32:48","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=105140"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:37:27","slug":"brixx-pizza-waitress-fired-after-facebook-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/728897","title":{"rendered":"Brixx Pizza Waitress Fired After Facebook Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Brixx-Pizza-Waitress-Fired.jpg?resize=450%2C385\" alt=\"\" title=\"Brixx Pizza Waitress Fired\" width=\"450\" height=\"385\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-105193\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook has gotten someone else fired. Ashley Johnson, a 22-year-old North Carolina waitress, just learned what you should already know \u2013 your friends aren&#8217;t the only ones reading your Facebook page. After serving a couple for three hours last week &#8212; including one hour after she was supposed to be off the clock &#8212; and receiving a lousy $5 tip in return, Ashley let loose on the duo on her Facebook page&#8230;to disastrous consequences: she&#8217;s now out of a job&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-105140\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She blasted the couple on Facebook, calling them cheap and mentioning the restaurant by name, according to <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/2010\/05\/17\/1440447\/facebook-post-costs-waitress-her.html#ixzz0oJamLrFL\">The Charlotte Observer<\/a><\/em>. A few days later, Brixx managers told Johnson that her job was being terminated because she violated a company policy banning workers from speaking ill of customers and casting the restaurant in a bad light on the social networking giant.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We definitely care what people say about our customers,&#8221;<\/em> said Jeff Van Dyke, one of the partners who run the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It was my own fault,&#8221;<\/em> Ashley told the paper. <em>&#8220;I did write the message. But I had no idea that something that, to me is very small, could result in my losing my job.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6jhpxbvB5yIC8AYFetW2mpuhmTM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6jhpxbvB5yIC8AYFetW2mpuhmTM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6jhpxbvB5yIC8AYFetW2mpuhmTM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/6jhpxbvB5yIC8AYFetW2mpuhmTM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has gotten someone else fired. Ashley Johnson, a 22-year-old North Carolina waitress, just learned what you should already know \u2013 your friends aren&#8217;t the only ones reading your Facebook page. After serving a couple for three hours last week &#8212; including one hour after she was supposed to be off the clock &#8212; and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-728897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-33Cp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":830508,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728897\/revisions\/830508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}