A 16-year-old British girl was in tears recently after she logged on to her Facebook page and discovered she had been fired from her job.

England's Daily Mail newspaper reports Chelsea Taylor, who lives in Leigh in Greater Manchester, lost her job after she misplaced about $15 (10 pounds) while picking up biscuits for the staff.

Her manager, Elaine Sutton, wrote on Taylor's wall because she said she couldn't reach the teen by phone.

"Sorry to send u a message like this but bin tryin to ring u," said the message, which was riddled with text-speak and poor grammar.

"I had to tell the owner bout u losing that tenner coz obviously the till was down at end of day. She wasn't very pleased at all and despite me trying to persuade her otherwise she said I have to let u go. I'm really sorry. if u call in in the week with your uniform i'll sort your wages out. Once again I'm really sorry but it's out of my hands. Elaine xx."

Taylor wrote back about three minutes later, "OK."

Two days later, she wrote on her wall, "I offered to pay it back i was sorry and not to be given a chance well i hope you loose (sic) loads of custom and the word will get round."

Taylor told the newspaper she would have accepted a text message over the Facebook note, which made the news of her firing public to all her friends.

Staff at the cafe where the teen worked refused to comment to the Daily Mail.