I learned a valuable lesson, the hard way and want to share my experience with you, so that you dont make the same mistake. Last Saturday while my son Gabe was working some overtime hours, I opened my laptop to find that he had been logged on to facebook the night before. There it was, right in front of me, staring me right in the face, his open facebook account! Bingo! Score! The pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Ohhhh what can I do to my kid on his facebook account? My wheels were turning at a high rate of fuel consumption. Now, mind you, that I am this excited only because he will take any chance he gets to pick on me............This is my chance to catch up as I was getting behind in the fun of picking back. My husband and I blurted out several different funny little things that we could post on his facebook page, we laughed and laughed as this was becoming more and more fun to us. Gotcha! I was thinking! So after a few minutes of post suggestions and laughing at our funny selves, we decided against all the funny stuff and sparing my son the embarrassment of some of the funny stuff we were thinking, we decided to be nice instead. Saturday was also my husbands birthday. So my husband made a post to Gabes facebook that said My dad rocks, Happy Birthday Daddy. That was it, simple and over. So I thought.......... A couple minutes later my phone rang. It was Gabe. We was quite upset. He was asking if we made a post to his facebook page! His supervisor just reamed him for being on facebook while on work time. OH CRAP!!! OH CRAP!!! OH CRAP!!! What did we just do to our son? We jeopardized his position at work. We never even gave a thought to him being at work at the time the post was being made. In reality, we made it look like he was loafing on facebook while he was suppose to be working. Bad parents, bad bad bad parents............all over a little bit of fun. What was I thinking? Obviously, I wasnt thinking! NOW, I wish we would have posted something funny, something that the supervisor would have realized that was NOT posted by Gabe. OK, rethink that, NOW I wish I would have closed his facebook account down and went on my merry way. BUT, we did it, we cant change it now. Feeling real bad that I caused Gabe to be in trouble at work and because of the nice birthday wishes post that was made, Im sure that he would never be able to convince his supervisor that it was not him, but us instead. Im so sorry that we didnt think ahead to the consequences that this could create before we made the post. We should have done this, we should think ahead before we make any decisions, especially decisions that effect others. I apologize to my son for the harm that I have caused him at his place of employment, Im so so sorry Gabe, I wish that I could change it for you. Im so sorry that I didnt think ahead to the problems that I could be creating for you. I will adapt this concept into my daily thinking from now on. So, that is the lesson that I learned, the hard way................ Think before you act............I wish I would have...........
Posted on: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:44:48 +0000