Drinking from a solo cup on the weekend isn’t a crime. There isn’t any shame there. I’m just not sure how I feel about my boss seeing photos of me engaging in these types of shenanigans on the weekend. Couple those photos with crass commentary by my friends and suddenly those photos from my Saturday night morph from a great time into embarrassing evidence of bad judgment.
Everyone has a personal life. That personal life can easily become publicized if your shutter-happy friends like to document your nights out and post them on social networks. Social networks that your professional colleagues and boss are part of. This is where things get sticky.
The Public Me and the Private Me are theoretically the same. After all, I’m Me wherever I go. One could argue that as long as you’re not engaging in totally mortifying behavior there’s nothing wrong with a bleary-eyed photo or two. Ultimately the responsibility rests with you. You need to be accountable for your on-line presence. I admit that I’ve asked a friend to kindly remove a comment on a less than flattering photo of me, the lewd reference being pretty off-color.
Are your weekends and work-life mutually exclusive? How do you cope with the balance? Or do you even need to?
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