Is this fair?

A Facebook post criticizing his employer, the Philadelphia Eagles, cost a stadium operations worker his job, according to a story in Monday's Philadelphia Inquirer.

Dan Leone, who the Inquirer said worked as a west gate chief, was unhappy the team let Brian Dawkins sign with the Denver Broncos in free agency. According to the newspaper, Leone posted the following on his Facebook page: "Dan is [expletive] devastated about Dawkins signing with Denver ... Dam Eagles R Retarted!!"

Despite deleting the comment, Leone told the Inquirer the Eagles fired him by phone days later.

"I shouldn't have put it up there," Leone said, according to the Inquirer. "I was ticked off, and I let my emotions go, but I didn't offend any one person or target a specific individual. I was just upset that we lost such a great guy. Dawkins was one of my favorite players. I made a mistake."

Leone said he was shocked to lose his job of six years.

"I apologized for it," Leone said, according to the paper. "I apologized 20 million times. I never bad-mouthed the organization before. I made one mistake and they terminate me? And they couldn't even bring me into the office to talk to me? They had to do it over the phone? At least look me in the eye. To get done dirty like this, I can't believe it. I'm devastated."

The Eagles confirmed that Leone was a part-time staff member, but didn't comment further.

Wow, he got fired for something he did on his own time?

I think I would fire him on his use of "retarted" alone.

i would fire him for saying "ticked off"

He probably had people from work on his FB like a dummy That's what I hate about it, the fuckers from work knowing what you're up to at all times Poor bastid

JustErin said:

offensive AND poorly spelled.

Is it fair? Probably not. Was he foolish? Yep.

CalhounSq said:

I'm constantly hearing one coworker say about another: "Yeah, I just read her Facebook and found out she's not coming in to work today..."

MuthaFunka said:

Yes I agree. Anyone who works for any sort of firm signs contracts. I know mine had fuckloads of small print I couldn't be fucked to read, butI bet mine, like everyone elses, has some sort of "act" that states no disrespecting your employer, inside or outside of work. Sad but true. Fair enough if you give trade secrets away, but all companies have some policy iam sure.

Kinda sucks though, thinking people may bre trawling your facebook or whatever for comments.

CalhounSq said:

I would never have co-workers on my FB. Hell, I deleted old co-workers off of my Myspace page

I'm done with Facebook and Myspace. I'm not going back to either site. Ever.