"Using Twitter can be bad for you. Especially if you think have a sense of humour but your boss thinks you don’t. For an employee of Hungary’s Vodafone it took less than 20 characters and a virtual wink to be whisked out of the office.T-Mobile, the mobile unit of Hungary’s Magyar Telekom, was unable to communicate during a network failure last Friday and its subscribers were left in the dark all morning as to why they had problems calling and texting.
T-Mobile then released a "statement" on Twitter saying: "There will be an official statement (released) about the network problem. Please be patient!"
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Vodafone said in the afternoon it had nothing to do with this reply but it would gladly lend a helping hand to T-Mobile to fix its problem. For all the obvious reasons, T-Mobile would never ever let Vodafone people even close to its network, let alone allow them to "help" fix it.
Vodafone said the Twitterer acted without authorisation and remarked the rival’s problem in an unfair manner.
"The employee’s behaviour goes against fair competition and we decided the action called for sacking," János Suba, Vodafone’s communications director, told local news portal index.hu."
Source: Portfolio Online Financial Journal
11.12.2009