CFO Gets Fired After Oversharing on Facebook and Twitter

Posted by : Barbara Safani 2 Comments

Anyone who reads my blog regularly knows that I’m a big fan of blending the personal and professional on Facebook and Twitter  to create engagement and conversation. But Francesca Holdings CFO, Gene Morphis, recently went a bit too far with his blended approach on his public pages and he was fired because of it. Morphis posted several status updates where he shared proprietary company information such as “Board meeting. Good numbers=Happy Board” and “Roadshow completed. Sold $275 million of secondary shares. Earned my pay this week.”

Top brass at Francesca Holdings certainly isn’t happy about Morphis’ social media blunder, but at least they can take comfort in the fact that their stock jumped 5% since Morphis’ departure.

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  1. It certainly does not help to leave your profile completely public… Sometimes, people really are clueless how exposed they are on the internet.

    That said, you will notice that no posts have been added to M. Morphis facebook snce May…

    I dunno, maybe adding something like “Looking for a job without internet access” would be in order…

  2. Jerome,

    You make some really good points. Transparency is important but being prudent with comments is equally important. Thanks for reading.

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