"The example I often use when I teach this material in class is to say if an employee posts on their Facebook page that they're a Toronto Maple Leafs fan, and the boss is an Ottawa Senators fan, they can be fired for that," says David Doorey, associate professor of labour and employment law at York University's school of human resource management in Toronto.

They can't be fired for that, tho if the boss is rabid enough, he'll find another reason. Seems like a poor example to me.

But let's say somebody posts they're into BDSM - don't know if they can be fired for it, but certainly not hired in the first place.

When you show up drunk for work, it should. But weirdly enough, it doesn't.

In the military showing up drunk was treated as a big deal, just like every civilian job I had before.

What you do on your own time is your business but as soon as it starts to affect your job performance it becomes your bosses business. How he/she chooses to deal with that is up to them and company policy.

Don't ask me how and why. If they were my employees, they would have both been fired a long time ago.

Here's a thought: Don't 'Friend' your boss.

My policy goes one further and is to not friend anyone I work with currently, though I will add past co-workers. Having a different name on FB than in real life usually helps people from tracking me down too.

My policy goes one further and is to not friend anyone I work with currently, though I will add past co-workers. Having a different name on FB than in real life usually helps people from tracking me down too.