This is an atrocity. The image in the said tweet clearly shows a decently large group of people holding 'thanks Marriot' cards. It's easy to think why the employee liked it. And really how many people know about geopolitically sensitive areas like Tibet...
Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
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Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#52The meat of the story is that Omaha man worked for Marriott hotels on customer support. Their support system allows their agents to like tweets. The man appears to have inadvertently clicked like on a tweet while dealing with a large influx of support messages (due to a promo going on) thanking Marriott for listing Tibet as its own country which was a huge no-no due to Mariott's presence in China. Execs fire him as a…
Yea it's weird I feel like liking the tweet should pale in comparison to whoever listed Tibet as its own country. Seems like the mistake was listing tibet as a country on the survey and they fired a guy just because he put attention to it by liking a tweet (and was thus used as a sacrifice). If I were China, I'd probably demand the firing of someone more consequential than a random minimum wage worker who had little…
If you were in China would you really find it insulting that Tibet is considered by some to be its own country? It was invaded, and I can’t really see any other way to characterise what happened.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#53The meat of the story is that Omaha man worked for Marriott hotels on customer support. Their support system allows their agents to like tweets. The man appears to have inadvertently clicked like on a tweet while dealing with a large influx of support messages (due to a promo going on) thanking Marriott for listing Tibet as its own country which was a huge no-no due to Mariott's presence in China. Execs fire him as a…
Yea it's weird I feel like liking the tweet should pale in comparison to whoever listed Tibet as its own country. Seems like the mistake was listing tibet as a country on the survey and they fired a guy just because he put attention to it by liking a tweet (and was thus used as a sacrifice). If I were China, I'd probably demand the firing of someone more consequential than a random minimum wage worker who had little…
Thank you for saying this. I was so confused. Like why is this guy responsible for this? It was someone obviously higher up who added Tibet as its own country...
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#54The meat of the story is that Omaha man worked for Marriott hotels on customer support. Their support system allows their agents to like tweets. The man appears to have inadvertently clicked like on a tweet while dealing with a large influx of support messages (due to a promo going on) thanking Marriott for listing Tibet as its own country which was a huge no-no due to Mariott's presence in China. Execs fire him as a…
The real story is he has no employment rights because he's in America and he's "at will."
They can dismiss him because they don't like his lunch selection that day and he has no rights.
That's at will employment. This type of situation plays out all over the country everyday.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#55Up next, all atheists and homosexuals get fired from any company that deals with Saudi Arabia. We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran. Marion should be made an example of in the US. Say a wink wink nudge nudge major tax audit of every single Marion hotel.
This isn't an example of anyone having a say in how the government is run.
Any kind of extra-legal and arbitrary "making an example" of a company domestically would be disastrous to confidence in the market.
The better implementation of your objective would be to create a policy (enshrined in rules) first, then go after anyone who violates it.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yea it's weird I feel like liking the tweet should pale in comparison to whoever listed Tibet as its own country. Seems like the mistake was listing tibet as a country on the survey and they fired a guy just because he put attention to it by liking a tweet (and was thus used as a sacrifice). If I were China, I'd probably demand the firing of someone more consequential than a random minimum wage worker who had little…
If you were in China would you really find it insulting that Tibet is considered by some to be its own country? It was invaded, and I can’t really see any other way to characterise what happened.
That depends if you think some Americans would be offended if you claimed Hawaii was its own country. It was also invaded and then forcibly gentrified and colonized. That's not to even mention the entirety of the United States. It's not so much if China has legitimate claims on Tibet so much as it's the pot calling the kettle black. The greatest conquerer on Earth and its modern beneficiaries telling another country to give up territory and sovereignty.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#57Usually when an issue like this gets up to the CEO, there really isn't any other choice but to fire whoever is responsible. I don't necessarily agree with it, but the reality is:
China >> Mariott.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#58Up next, all atheists and homosexuals get fired from any company that deals with Saudi Arabia. We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran. Marion should be made an example of in the US. Say a wink wink nudge nudge major tax audit of every single Marion hotel.
> We can't let backwards dictatorships have any say in how a democracy is ran.
Unfortunately we can, we do, and we will continue to, unless we make it more expensive for companies to submit to than to oppose such forces.
Given the role money plays in our legislative process, I think we will be seeing more of this.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's no survey-wall.
There was for me on mobile, not on desktop.
On desktop there's just auto-playing video with obnoxiously loud commercials; reminded me I need the Mute Sites By Default [1] extension installed on this computer.
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mute-sites-by...
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#60It's strange to me how much emphasis they're putting on the tweet. Wasn't the spark that incensed China so much their decision to list Tibet as a country in the survey?
Nobody really knew about that until the yeeet was liked by the Marriott corporate account, so in a sense you’re right but the ‘like’ was the proximate cause of the firestorm.
Well, whoever sent the tweet that was liked seemed to have heard about it.