Top 5 | Times employees have taken to social media - what do they teach us?

As the working world shifted to being employee-centric, and workers felt more empowered than ever, social media saw a hike in the number of posts relating to employers, businesses and work.

Specifically, workers are using social media to express grievances about bosses, complain about co-workers and pull controversial stunts in the hopes of going viral.

For most of these employees, their viral posts relating to work haven’t necessarily led to them compromising their role, but it has highlighted a few things about employee relationships, behaviour in the workplace and online etiquette. These stories illustrate that a part of employee power resides in a worker’s ability to out employer wrong-doings or bring attention to workplace grievances. Here are the top 5 times employees have taken to social media...

‘Petty cake’ cake sent to quitting employee for TikTok video

A video went viral on TikTok earlier this year from a cake baker’s account. What does this have to do with work? The baker was designing this cake for an employee who wanted to give it to their leaving colleague. ‘you’re dead to us...goodbye forever QUITTER.’ read the cake embellished in a rainbow font.