Exec of liberal company fired after Tweet?
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depending on what part, rape is not uncommon. especially being white.
Was she planning to fuck the local monkeys????
christiefan915
Catalyst
Company parts ways with PR exec after AIDS in Africa tweet
Another moron who just learned the hard way about the need for good manners and common courtesy. And the delicious irony is that she works in Public Relations.
(CNN) -- The "tweet heard round the world" was followed by the sound of a slamming door Saturday.
Media company IAC has "parted ways" with company PR executive Justine Sacco over her tweet: "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
"The offensive comment does not reflect the views and values of IAC. We take this issue very seriously, and we have parted ways with the employee in question," an IAC spokesman said in a statement.
"There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally," he said. "We hope, however, that time and action, and the forgiving human spirit, will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core..."
Sacco was the head of corporate communications for IAC, the media company chaired by Barry Diller that operates websites such as The Daily Beast, About.com, CollegeHumor and Match.com. Her whole job revolved around communicating with reporters -- which made her Twitter comment about Africa all the more shocking....
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/21/us/sacco-offensive-tweet/
Another moron who just learned the hard way about the need for good manners and common courtesy. And the delicious irony is that she works in Public Relations.
(CNN) -- The "tweet heard round the world" was followed by the sound of a slamming door Saturday.
Media company IAC has "parted ways" with company PR executive Justine Sacco over her tweet: "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
"The offensive comment does not reflect the views and values of IAC. We take this issue very seriously, and we have parted ways with the employee in question," an IAC spokesman said in a statement.
"There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally," he said. "We hope, however, that time and action, and the forgiving human spirit, will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core..."
Sacco was the head of corporate communications for IAC, the media company chaired by Barry Diller that operates websites such as The Daily Beast, About.com, CollegeHumor and Match.com. Her whole job revolved around communicating with reporters -- which made her Twitter comment about Africa all the more shocking....
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/21/us/sacco-offensive-tweet/
Already reported...you must have been ironing your Terrible Towel or something.
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?59025-Exec-of-liberal-company-fired-after-Tweet
http://www.justplainpolitics.com/showthread.php?59025-Exec-of-liberal-company-fired-after-Tweet
christiefan915
Catalyst
Before posting I put "Justine Sacco" into search and nothing came up.
How did you know I have a Terrible Towel?
Damo, can you merge the threads?
It didn't take spidey sense...
canceled.2021.1
#AMERICAISDEAD
Company parts ways with PR exec after AIDS in Africa tweet
This is ridiculous. She does te deserve to be fired for this.
We now have a society that thinks it has the right to not be offended. Unfreaking real. This girl does not deserve to have her life ruined over this
This shit is getting out of hand
This is ridiculous. She does te deserve to be fired for this.
We now have a society that thinks it has the right to not be offended. Unfreaking real. This girl does not deserve to have her life ruined over this
This shit is getting out of hand
Sun Devil
Death and Taxes
Another moron who just learned the hard way about the need for good manners and common courtesy. And the delicious irony is that she works in Public Relations.
(CNN) -- The "tweet heard round the world" was followed by the sound of a slamming door Saturday.
Media company IAC has "parted ways" with company PR executive Justine Sacco over her tweet: "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!"
"The offensive comment does not reflect the views and values of IAC. We take this issue very seriously, and we have parted ways with the employee in question," an IAC spokesman said in a statement.
"There is no excuse for the hateful statements that have been made and we condemn them unequivocally," he said. "We hope, however, that time and action, and the forgiving human spirit, will not result in the wholesale condemnation of an individual who we have otherwise known to be a decent person at core..."
Sacco was the head of corporate communications for IAC, the media company chaired by Barry Diller that operates websites such as The Daily Beast, About.com, CollegeHumor and Match.com. Her whole job revolved around communicating with reporters -- which made her Twitter comment about Africa all the more shocking....
http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/21/us/sacco-offensive-tweet/
I read this today. It's one of those fails that you just can't stop laughing from. A PR executive who made a dumb PR move....She deserves the Darwin award indeed.
Sun Devil
Death and Taxes
You're not very bright..
She is a PR executive. If she makes a remark that is deemed insensitive, racist, homophobic or otherwise it has nothing to do with "free speech" it has everything to do with transgressing the contractual rules that are set by the company (or companies) she represents.
illuminati Scottie
Verified User
Cute moron!
Wonder if she's atheist
Wonder if she's atheist
canceled.2021.1
#AMERICAISDEAD
Company parts ways with PR exec after AIDS in Africa tweet
Apparently I am much intelligent than you. You are arguing against a claim that I didn't make.
Where did I claim that this is a free speech issue? I didn't.
I said this is ridiculous. Now what she said was insensitive and she should know better, but she didn't harm anyone. She didn't call for anyone to be harmed.
Some people are getting their feelings hurt and she needs to be fired for it? Haver her career ruined? That is crazy. That shoud to be allowed to stand in a free society
What is interesting is that libtards are standing up and championing the rights of a business to fire anyone for any reason, but they don't really mean it.
I hope you find redemption and salvation in Jesus Christ
Merry Christmas
Apparently I am much intelligent than you. You are arguing against a claim that I didn't make.
Where did I claim that this is a free speech issue? I didn't.
I said this is ridiculous. Now what she said was insensitive and she should know better, but she didn't harm anyone. She didn't call for anyone to be harmed.
Some people are getting their feelings hurt and she needs to be fired for it? Haver her career ruined? That is crazy. That shoud to be allowed to stand in a free society
What is interesting is that libtards are standing up and championing the rights of a business to fire anyone for any reason, but they don't really mean it.
I hope you find redemption and salvation in Jesus Christ
Merry Christmas
illuminati Scottie
Verified User
Mkay
illuminati Scottie
Verified User
Fox will hire her!
She's cute, and a ditz.
She's cute, and a ditz.
cancel2 2022
Canceled
It's seems like there are people whose only job appears to be professional offendees and to take to the media bellyaching about just about anything. What a strange world we live in.
Dumb; yes. Firing offense; perhaps. But we are becoming a society of idiots who think we all have the right not to be offended. Thank God I'm nearing retirement and living on a boat away from the insanity.
I'm betting she's a good Liberal Democrat.
I'm betting she's a good Liberal Democrat.
illuminati Scottie
Verified User
Free speech
Employment at will
The employer is free to fire any dumbass at any time!
Wait republicans don't want france style can't fire people.
Faux outrage is alive and well on the right as well as the left.
Employment at will
The employer is free to fire any dumbass at any time!
Wait republicans don't want france style can't fire people.
Faux outrage is alive and well on the right as well as the left.
maineman
Banned
are you suggesting that companies don't have the right to hire and fire people who damage the reputation of those companies?
christiefan915
Catalyst
If the company fired her it's because they don't want to lose business from people who might think her gaffes represent corporate thinking. Her comment went viral and forced the company to clean up the mess she made. Anybody working in PR should know how to weigh their words carefully.
Everyone needs to stop saying it's a free speech issue and understand that it's about the bottom line, period.
christiefan915
Catalyst
I agree with you that faux outrage is rampant on both sides. What I don't get is people like Sacco who make the kind of mistake she did, forcing her company into a public controversy they could have lived without. Maybe she was drunk or jet-lagged but her brain sure wasn't firing on all eight cylinders.