Social media is all fun and games…until it causes you to get fired from your job.

You’ve probably heard that you need to be careful with what you post on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and so on, because employers are always watching. Say the wrong thing and it could mean sayonara to your job.

That was just the case for a man named Cody Hidalgo, who thought he was just sharing an innocent meme on his Facebook page about his job at Roman Stoneworks in Michigan. Little did he know it would cause a devastating blow to his future.

Cody shared the classic meme of Elmo sitting on a potty, looking excited. The words “Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime, that’s why I poop on company time” were on the photo. He posted the photo on a Sunday, when he wasn’t working.

His boss got one look at the meme, and didn’t find much humor in it. In fact, he sent him a pretty hostile text about the whole thing. It read:

“We don’t make a dollar when you’re sh*****g all the time. Why don’t you stay home and do your sh*****g. I don’t like you play your bulls*** games. Maybe there’s a company out there that would put up with your games cause I won’t. Good luck!”

Of course, Cody was pretty confused until Andy reminded him about his Facebook antics. “So you’re going to fire me over a meme I shared?” Cody asked his boss in the text exchange. “That was nowhere relevant to work at all.”

“I share things I think are funny all the time,” Cody continued. “It’s a meme Andy why are you doing all of this over a meme?”

The text exchange ended there, so it wasn’t quite clear if Cody was never allowed back at work, so he went in for a few more days and wound up quitting on his own.

Jesus Christ lmao pic.twitter.com/49c1I8rLpj

— do not look at me or talk to me or smell me (@ChrisCaesar) October 26, 2019

“Mr. Hidalgo actually walked off the job on Wednesday, October 23 of his own volition, and over his manager’s objection,” Jan Jeffrey Rubinstein, Esq. of the The Rubinstein Law Firm, said in a statement. “Roman Stoneworks and its officers desired to keep Mr. Hidalgo in its employment to perform his duties. He abandoned a job in progress and that was how his employment with Roman Stoneworks actually came to an end.”

But Andy said with such a hostile environment he was now in, he couldn’t bear to continue his job. “With the bad blood, I didn’t want to work there anymore,” he said.

Roman Stoneworks has been hit with “monetary damage, as well as threats, profanity and harassment by phone and email,” according to the statement, which blames Andy for “exploit[ing] the publicity that this false claim has created.”

Andy created a GoFundMe page with a 1,000 goal. “I was wrongfully terminated and will be a few weeks before I start my new job,” Cody wrote in the description. “Got a house and bills to pay for. Need the help. Y’all know what to do. Even a dollar helps!”

To date, the page has raised a mere $10. Hmmm.

“If Mr. Hidalgo chose to tell the truth to all of the people who have now heard his false claims, then the matter may be able to be resolved amicably,” the statement concluded.

Do you think Cody’s situation was blown out of proportion or he had a right to feel like he was fired? Do you know anyone who was terminated from a job due to something they posted on social media?