How to lose your job: Two security officers suspended for Instagram Reel inside Mahakal temple

"How to lose your job" has a new method - social media. If you are looking to be fired from your workplace, you can try something quick, at the tap of your finger and online. Post a questionable social media post from your handle and make it go viral. 

Here are 8 tried and tested ways to get fired from your job: 

1. Dance to Instagram Reels at the place of posting:

MP: Women security personnel dance on Bollywood songs inside Mahakal temple, both suspended after video goes viral pic.twitter.com/uUzCU8GGJa

— Rahul Chauhan (@chauhanrahullll) December 4, 2022

• In the latest, two security personnel posted at the Mahakal temple in Madhya Pradesh were suspended after they posted a video of themselves dancing to popular Bollywood songs inside the temple premises. 
• Now, security personnel posted at the temple have been asked to not carry their mobile phones. 
• This isn't the first time that such an incident involving security was discovered. In fact, the temple administration has been annoyed by visitors as well, who constantly click photos and make music videos, disturbing the devotees. 

2. IAS officer removed from assignment:

 

 

 

 

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A post shared by Abhishek Singh (@abhishek_as_it_is)

• Recently, an Uttar Pradesh-cadre IAS officer Abhishek Singh, who is also very famous on Instagram as abhishek_as_it_is, was removed from his assignment as a general observer for Gujarat assembly polls after he posted or more aptly "boasted" about his posting on Instagram by posing with his government assigned car. 
• TBH, this particular social media post is the least puke-worthy post by the IAS officer. In fact, his entire feed may make you mistake him for a Bobby Kataria-type social media influencer rather than an IAS officer. 
• As for Singh, he continues to be an IAS and has refused to remove the questionable video, or apologise for it.

3. Police constable suspended for Reel:

• A police constable from Prayagraj was suspended after a 15-second video of him acting near an outpost went viral on social media.  

• In another case, a policewoman was suspended in Moradabad after a video of her posing in uniform went viral. 

Civil services in India have updated their rules for social media use by personnel, but it still remains a balancing act. 

Not just in India, people elsewhere have also been fired from their jobs for their VERY conflicting social media presence.

4. British police officer suspended for OnlyFans account: 

• Last month, British police officer Sam Helena was suspended, and later resigned, after her OnlyFans account by the name "Officer Naughty" was discovered by the department. Sam Helena's OnlyFans account was discovered by her seniors as it was linked to her Instagram account. 
• The OnlyFans account was giving access to sexting and pornography to subscribers for around £15 (Rs 1,500) a month. 

5. Making insensitive videos: 

• In 2015, six HSBC bankers in the UK were fired for making a mock ISIS beheading video. They were fired once the insensitive and tone-deaf video clip went viral on social media. 

6. Slutshaming the President's children online:

• This is back from when Barack Obama was the President of the United States. A communications director for a Republican congressman posted a rather petty social media post scolding and slutshaming the President's daughters - Sasha and Malia Obama - for not showing "class" at an event and dressing for a "spot at a bar". 

• The "Communications" Director later apologised and resigned from her job. 

7. Taking selfies with dying patients:

• A Russian paramedic lost her job for posting extremely insensitive photos of her suffering and possibly dying patients in ambulances to Instagram. In one post, she called a patient who was in a car accident, "another moron". 

Tatiana Kulikova, Russian paramedic has absolutely no regard for life whatsoever, taking selfies with dying patients pic.twitter.com/u6VAFoSuaD

— ur esoteric stepsister 🌸 (@philosophiia_) March 13, 2015

8. Losing NASA internship for foul language:

• A woman reportedly lost her NASA internship after she boasted about it on social media, albeit with an expletive. 

It started with: 

• But when THE Homer Hickam, former NASA engineer, inspiration for October Sky movie, chided her for her language thinking it might be found inappropriate by her seniors at NASA, she replied with a few more sexually explicit expletives. 

And of course, we can't forget Elon Musk firing Twitter employees for correcting him on Twitter.