10 People Who Were Canned for Naughty Social Media Behavior

A look at employees who found themselves in hot water.

When Social Media Costs You Your Job - Tacky tweets, social media venting, Facebook conversations gone wrong? They are all acts that could cost you your job. Just ask Jofi Joseph, the White House staffer who was axed for bashing the government under a “parody” Twitter account. But Joseph isn’t the only adult to make headlines for alleged improper online behavior. BET.com takes a look at people who found themselves in hot water because of something they did or said on social media.— Dominique Zonyéé(Photo: Tuomas Kujansuu/Getty Images)
Jofi Joseph - It took the government a little more than two years to discover that one of their own, Jofi Joseph, a former director in the nonproliferation section of the National Security Council, had a “parody” Twitter account. He used the Twitter handle @NatSecWonk to criticize government policies and bash his bosses, including President Barack Obama. Joseph was canned last week and has since apologized.(Photo: NBC)
Rhonda Lee - Natural hair don’t care! Rhonda Lee, a former meteorologist for Louisiana's KTBS, was terminated from her position there in 2012 for replying to a viewer’s racially charged Facebook comments requesting that she wear a wig over her natural 'do. In the end, the Sheveport TV station issued a statement saying Lee was fired for “repeated violation of the station’s written procedure.”(Photo: CNN)Denise Helms - I scream, you scream, we all scream, "you’re fired." That’s what happened in 2012 to Denise Helms, the ColdStone Creamery ice cream scooper in California who was ousted for racist Facebook comments about President Obama. Helms’s comments, such as, “Another 4 years of this (N-word),” were so hair-raising the Secret Service opened an investigation on her.(Photo: Twitter via Denise Helms)

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When Social Media Costs You Your Job - Tacky tweets, social media venting, Facebook conversations gone wrong? They are all acts that could cost you your job. Just ask Jofi Joseph, the White House staffer who was axed for bashing the government under a “parody” Twitter account. But Joseph isn’t the only adult to make headlines for alleged improper online behavior. BET.com takes a look at people who found themselves in hot water because of something they did or said on social media.— Dominique Zonyéé(Photo: Tuomas Kujansuu/Getty Images)

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