Someone needs to hire this guy. It was an honest mistake.
Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
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#72Up 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.
Which democracy are we talking about? China? The US?
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#73Sounds like the script of a Black Mirror episode to me.
The problem about Black Mirror is that since at least 2016 it has been leaking into this reality.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#74The 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…
I totally believe "the UI sucks argument" as well. I can't tell you how many times I've accidentally liked something on Instagram because of the stupid double tap a photo = like, not zoom feature. Instagram is a piece of software millions of people use every day. I've designed software that 5 - 100 people use a day, and I can tell you the UI is going to suck if you have a data architect design the UI for your CRUD ap…
This happens if I am watching a video on twitter, think I am in YouTube, and double tap on the right side to fast forward. Bam, I just liked a video of some ANTIFA beating the shit out of people! Now how do I unlike that?
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#75The 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…
>Another question does occur - if it's such a big deal for them, why is/was Tibet listed as its own country in their system that prompted the liked tweet in the first place?
The survey was outsourced to an outside company.
>And even in this specific case, where a low-level Marriott employee in Omaha clicked “like” on a tweet thanking Marriott for a survey designed by a third-party vendor, the hotel chain got in big trouble.
Marriott clearly has zero training on geopolitical issues so the third party vendor didn't have a template to follow, likely they just Googled "list of countries in the world" and copied the list. Marriott needs to be providing a list of countries to all outside vendors.
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#77tl;rd Marriot employee dealing with 1000s of tweets liked:
>Friends of Tibet congratulate global hotel chain #Marriott International for listing #Tibet as a country along with #HongKong and #Taiwan. pic.twitter.com/SXKWb20v3e
China freaked out and
>forced Marriott to suspend all online booking for a week at its nearly 300 Chinese hotels. A Chinese leader also demanded the company publicly apologize and “seriously deal with the people responsible,”
Maybe Marriott could quietly hire him back.
The Chinese are a bit touchy over what I think is the largest military invasion and land grab of the last century by area.
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#78Aside from other questions, in what way does this mid-level management position wherein one is constantly surveiled a "dream job"? Ah, because the employers only hire people who claim it's their dream job? Because mostly a simple unfair firing situation wouldn't get the outrage it deserved unless the situation would flogged someone losing their dream job? None of the rhetoric inflation involved is the fault of this u…
A) this was not a midlevel management position.
B) Your life is made more convenient daily by people who do jobs that you don't want to. This guy has the nerve to _like_ his job and that bothers you?
The article states that the guy had a rocky background and then the job had quickly brought him newfound accomplishment—but even if he was the heir to a major bank and a Mensa member, why can't he enjoy what he's chosen to do?
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#79Even if it wasn't an accident -- even if he saw the Tweet, and on behalf of Marriott and in full intention of broadcasting such, he clicked "Like" on this tweet, it's completely insane he would be fired for it. The tweet exhibits a positive sentiment. I would not expect most people to know that this sentiment matters to China. This is another example of China exerting influence on the open web, and it's shameful that…
Employees in social media teams should not be clicking LIKE in anything. It’s too risky to the business, and it conflates your personal preferences with corporate business goals.
You cannot be yourself on social media anymore. You just have to be inactive, a fake, or pretend to be like what the echo chamber asks you to be.
Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job
#80The 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…
Even in a purely profit-driven mindset, as a Marriott executive in a pinch on this decision, I would give a sizeable severance and thats it.