My cousin got fired over a tweet from 2014 and I think it's messed up

Last month, my cousin lost his job at a marketing firm in Seattle because someone dug up an old, dumb joke he posted on Twitter ten years ago. He was 19, and the tweet was just a bad pun about a movie character, not hate speech. His boss said the company's 'values' had to be protected, but they never even talked to him about it first. How can you hold someone accountable for a joke they made as a teenager?

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logan2052mo agoMost Upvoted

Seattle marketing firms protecting their values by firing people over decade old puns. Honestly, that's a better joke than the original tweet was.

julia_patel2mo ago

Yeah, that's the real punchline right there.

the_angela2mo ago

Is one dumb tweet really worth burning your whole career over, though? Feels like we're all getting a little too worked up over some bad online joke.