Confronting embarrassment at the workplace

Confronting embarrassment at the workplace

Consider the following scenario:

Someone that you thought was your friend posted on a popular social networking site embarrassing photographs of you taken at a party last weekend. This was done without your knowledge or permission. The following day you receive a call from your employer asking you to meet with your boss and your HR department to discuss your behavior.

What would you do? How could you have avoided this scenario?

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I would own up to the situation and meet with the HR department and my boss. However, before meeting up with them, I would talk to my friend and ask that they may bring down the photos as they are causing an embarrassment to the people associated with me and me………………………….

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