After the wake of a disastrous tsunami that claimed numerous lives and devastated coastal towns in Japan, comic Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of the Aflac duck, got fired after tweeted several off-color jokes. This is one example of his jokes: “Japan is really advanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them.”

A waitress became irritated after she had to stay past her shift to wait on a table of two. When the customers finally departed, they left what the waitress deemed an inadequate tip. "Thanks for eating at Brixx," she reportedly wrote on her Facebook page, before using profanity and calling the customers "cheap."

Adam Smith, former CEO, lost his job and had to go on food stamps after he videotaped himself telling the drive-thru attendant how much he despised Chick-Fil-A. Once he posted the video, it went viral and he found himself unemployed.

A director of a corporation began tweeting during her travel to South Africa. She tweeted the following on her departure flight: “Weird German Dude: You’re in First Class. It’s 2014. Get some deodorant." On her flight to Cape Town, she tweeted: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!"

“A California Pizza Kitchen worker was fired for his tweeting. His profanity on the company's Twitter page, along with his strong negative opinions about the company's new uniforms, led to his dismissal."

"A Denver math teacher published revealing photos on her social media account and tweeted about pot smoking and other behaviors that we would not think of as characteristic of a teacher. These posts got her fired in spite of her popularity among her students."

“A Seattle coffee shop fired a barista who started a blog about the daily tribulations of his job...He even poked fun at his boss, writing, “I like to use a lot of big words when I tweet, that way if my boss ever finds my twitter account, he won't understand any of it."“