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A woman in Denver took to TikTok to share her $20,000 pay increase at a new job, but she was eventually fired after the company found her videos.
Lexi Larson | Instagram via Business Insider Lexi posted a video on TikTok saying her salary had gone from $70,000 to $90,000 after she got a job in the tech industry. She covered her spending habits in Denver and how she got a new job on her platform.
After her company found her TikTok account, she deleted videos in order to not anger her bosses. The National Labor Relations Act protects her right to discuss her salary but she decided to take them down.
Her supervisor talked to her about the account.
She said in a video that the company didn't like her videos about her salary. She said that superiors told her "no" when she asked if she had posted any videos that violated security measures.
"TikTok cost me my job, which was two weeks after I was hired," she said in a video announcing her dismissal. After talking to me about my account, they fired me because they said it was a security concern.
@itslexilarson I got fired bc of my tiktok
Bennitta Joseph is a partner at the law firm Joseph & Norinberg.
Joseph told USA Today that a company has a lot of interest in making sure they don't engage in discrimination. It could be grounds for firing if they find out that you are doing any of these.
After calling her former manager in tears over her firing, she decided to return to her old job as an account manager.
The video has been viewed over 1 million times.
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