Boss calls out employee's "epic fail"
Monday, October 27, 2008
An employee in Australia is under internal investigation after a boss caught him skipping work by monitoring his facebook status.
Kyle Doyle, a network security technician at AAPT, had posted a message on the social network site claiming: "I'm not going to work, f**k it i'm still trashed. SICKIE WOO."
His boss saw the message and initially asked him for medical proof of illness, which Doyle then claimed was unnecessary and outside of his authority as he had no reason to believe he was not ill.
When his boss emailed back saying that he had seen the status message, Doyle quickly replied: "HAHAHA LMAO epic fail. No worries man."
AAPT launched an investigation into the affair once it entered the public domain.
However, Australian national paper the Daily Telegraph has claimed that the company has since denied that the exchange took place.
Doyle has been unavailable for comment, although some parties are speculating that the messages could have been fabricated and made public by malicious parties who breached email security in an effort to tarnish his reputation.
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