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Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by kristianov »

michaelmrose wrote: post #135

Lets be real about America's relationship with China. They are our enemies. Both parties seek to dominate the globe even if nobody is anxious to do so bullets and bombs. Both parties have values that can never be reconciled. How do you reconcile the notion that man ought to be free with a society that believes in lifelong servitude and a mans proper place under each others boots. A society that poisons its people and…

> I just don't wish our government employees or leadership to patronize them and strongly suggest that those who feel strongly about America also abstain from giving anyone affiliated with Marriott their money.

I feel kinda bad for Marriot: Chinese boycott them for liking the tweet, and now americans are furious that they apologized.

Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by earenndil »

michaelmrose wrote: post #135

Lets be real about America's relationship with China. They are our enemies. Both parties seek to dominate the globe even if nobody is anxious to do so bullets and bombs. Both parties have values that can never be reconciled. How do you reconcile the notion that man ought to be free with a society that believes in lifelong servitude and a mans proper place under each others boots. A society that poisons its people and…

I agree with what you said, partly. And I agree that there are serious problems with chinese culture and government (at least, from my perspective). But, why should the US government be any better?

Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by superkuh »

andrei_says_ wrote: post #58
zeth___ wrote: post #27

Up 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.

Not only can we, but now with the CLOUD Act passed as a rider to the budget bill those countries have even more options since the law will,

>Enable foreign police to collect and wiretap people's communications from U.S. companies, without obtaining a U.S. warrant.

>Allow foreign nations to demand personal data stored in the United States, without prior review by a judge.

>Allow the U.S. president to enter "executive agreements" that empower police in foreign nations that have weaker privacy laws than the United States to seize data in the United States while ignoring U.S. privacy laws.

>Allow foreign police to collect someone's data without notifying them about it.

Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by incompatible »

astura wrote: post #75
corobo wrote: post #21

The 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 t…

"Country" is a loose concept anyway. A country isn't necessary a sovereign state, since places like England or Aruba are considered countries. If it wasn't for the whole offending China thing, few people would care if Tibet was classified as a country or as a "historical region", as Wikipedia has it.

Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by rectang »

JetSpiegel wrote: post #119
eagsalazar2 wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forcing employers to keep employees they don't like, for any reason beyond discrimination, isn't the answer. The better answer is, IMO, better social safety net so people making $14/hr don't end up on the streets just because their job goes away.

The Flexi-Security approach to social security. The hard part is making sure companies pay their dues.

Having health care tied to the employer-employee relationship has worked out poorly.

The less the safety net is subject to the whims of business, the better off we will all be -- including businesses.

Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by __david__ »

snarfy wrote: post #140
wdr1 wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds like Marriott wanted to be in a position to say someone had been fired, and he was offered up. Either way, pretty shitty on Marriott's part.

It should have been the guy that allowed all low level employees access to the official Marriott twitter account.

Or maybe not fire anyone and just ignore silly twitter temper tantrums.

Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by ixacto »

JPKab wrote: post #62
cylinder wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It gets abused for sure, but more often, businesses get to fire bad employees, and this means they are more likely to give some people a chance who wouldn't get one otherwise. Hiring in certain countries is very risky, because it is so costly to fire a bad employee.

Bullshit. It is 100% advantage for the employee. Another employee and myself got laid off with 2 days notice from my former employer when they decided they were going to try to use less people. This is really annoying since I now am working as a temp for 6mo until I'm hired at another company and have to pay $400/mo out of pocket for insurance. This is in the biotech industry not the tech industry, maybe things are better there.

Re: Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

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Post by [deleted] »

dlgeek wrote: post #114
chrischen wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> The greatest conquerer on Earth and its modern beneficiaries What'd England and the commonwealth do now?

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