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A guy at a diner in Tulsa told me he got fired over a tweet from 2014
Sat next to this older guy at a diner off Route 66 in Tulsa back in March and he started telling me how he lost his job of 11 years over a joke he posted in 2014. He said the tweet was dumb and he gets why people were mad, but he also said nobody asked him what he actually meant before his company let him go. I still think about it because he wasn't even mad, just tired. Now I can't decide if callouts should have a time limit or if that lets people off the hook. What do you all think, is there a point where old posts should stop counting?
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ryanh5619d ago
Man... I had a buddy down in Wichita who went through almost the same thing. He made some dumb joke on Twitter back in like 2012 when he was barely out of high school, and then eight years later some customer dug it up and his boss let him go the same week. The part that got me was he never even got a chance to say hey, I was 19 and being an idiot, here's what I actually meant. He just got walked out. I don't know if there should be a hard time limit on old posts, but it bugs me that there's no room for a person to just explain themselves anymore. People change a lot in ten years, and it feels like we all forgot that.
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