In a past life at a company that shall remain nameless, an employee made the mistake of hitting "reply all" to a corporate announcement instead of forward. Her reply went, not to her close friend as she intended, but to the whole company. While embarrassing, this would not have been a career-limiting move except for the fact that the reply detailed her job search and her urgent desire to get out of her current (insert uncomplimentary adjective here) job.

This led to her dismissal, a highly controversial move, since she was well liked and very good at her job. The point of this article is not to debate the decision, but to simply say: we ain't seen nothing yet. The plethora of social media tools now available, from Facebook to MySpace to Twitter, has led to an extraordinary blending of personal and professional lives in a very public forum which too many people seem to think is private. The latest casualty of this trend is the unfortunate "Cisco Fatty," a candidate who left her interview at Cisco and sent out the following tweet: "Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work."