{"id":22109,"date":"2025-12-04T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22109"},"modified":"2025-12-04T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T14:29:29","slug":"i-refused-to-use-my-social-media-to-promote-my-company-now-hr-stepped-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/?p=22109","title":{"rendered":"I Refused to Use My Social Media to Promote My Company\u2014Now HR Stepped In"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I work at a startup. My boss found out I had 20k followers and said, \u201cPromote our company in your social posts.\u201d I quickly replied, \u201cI won\u2019t do it for free!\u201d He just smiled and said, \u201cIt\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But 1 week later, I lost it when I found out they tried to post a new update tagging my profile to gather more likes and engagement. I immediately made the tag private on my account and reported it to HR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They said they\u2019d see what they can do, but so far, nothing has changed. I can\u2019t leave my job. It\u2019s hard to find a new one, but I can\u2019t work in a place where they keep crossing my personal boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know what to expect from them next. How do you suggest I move forward and handle the situation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work at a startup. My boss found out I had 20k followers and said, \u201cPromote our company in your social posts.\u201d I quickly replied, \u201cI won\u2019t&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":162,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22111,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22109\/revisions\/22111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinbr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}