Shocking Tweets That Got People Fired

Carly McKinney taught 10th grade math at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado, until she tweeted about getting high, complete with pics. She was the one who was taught a lesson when she was fired.

Cameron Jankowski, a Taco Belle employee, tweeted pics of himself peeing on an order in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but he was the one who was the peon, when he got fired.

Communications Director, Justine Sacco posted a racist tween before boarding a plane for Cape Town, reading, "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just Kidding. I'm White!" She didn't get AIDS, but she got FIRED.

Two Toronto firefighters were FIRED for posting sexist tweets. Matt Bowman tweeted, “Reject a woman and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind. Also weak arms.” and then “I'd never let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something I'd be like HEY! You get your bitch ass back in the kitchen and make me some pie!”
Lawaun Edwards read, “would swatting her in the back of the head been considered abuse or a way to reset the brain?”

Jofi Joseph, an Obama administration national security staffer, spent years on twitter talking about the national security policy and administration official, leaking vital security information and being offensive to women. He was eventually fired in October 2013, after an investigation of his Twitter account.

People don't realize that putting something on Twitter is like telling the world what you think. Connor Riley found out the hard way when she tweeted about this job offer, “Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.” Needless to say, she was fired before she was even hired.

When you are a well paid star of HBO's Hung, why would you skip out on a $13.44 restaurant bill? When waiter Jon Barrett-Ingels tweeted about Jane Adams ordering a soup and lemonade at Barney Greengrass in Beverly Hills and not paying her bill, he lost his job.

Twenty two year old Alicia Ann Lynch wore a Boston Marathon bombing victim costume for Halloween at work. Receiving a ton of internet rage, she lost her job. Better than losing a limb, one would say.