How social media can lose you your job

When a Canadian garage worker tweeted a request for a drug dealer to drop some marijuana round to his workplace, the police saw the funny side: they retweeted the message to their own followers, adding: "Awesome! Can we come too?"

Unfortunately, though, the man's employers failed to see the funny side, and promptly fired him. The same thing happened to the Buckingham Palace guard who called Kate Middleton a 'stupid stuck-up cow'.

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