Daily Dose of Common Sense

Some people aren’t content with making only one or two bad decisions at a time. Two Domino’s Pizza employees in North Carolina decided not only to abuse customer food, they also chose to film it. But, they didn’t stop there. They wanted to brag about it so they posted the self-made video to YouTube. Some reports said the video had been watched over a million times before being taken down. One of those viewers alerted Domino’s to the shenanigans, which showed an employee making sandwiches with ingredients that had been in his nose.

This is a PR nightmare for the parent company, who has not only fired the two employees but is also considering legal action against them. The two were also arrested and charged with “distrubiting prohibited food.” Wisely, Domino’s immediately went to the Internet to get apologies out to consumers. They began Twittering (@dpzinfo) and the company president put his own response video on YouTube.

Broadcasting one’s life—whether through video, blogging, tweeting, or other social media—can have a dark side. When you make things public, anyone can see, share, and comment on them. These two employees may have thought it was all hilarious, but honestly…did they think YouTube was their own private video-sharing service?

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