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

Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by wdr1 on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:18PM (#16664388)

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.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by snarfy on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:34PM (#16664449)

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

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by __david__ on Friday March 23, 2018 @10:43PM (#16664482)

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

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by ptaipale on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:44PM (#16667480)

I understand that this was not just a twitter tantrum, but a major disruption of business: inability to book online in China, in fact causing huge losses.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by ddeck on Saturday March 24, 2018 @12:26AM (#16664869)

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

Where in the article did it say that all low-level employees have access to the official Twitter account?

The employee in question had access because it was literally his job to reply to customers on their official Twitter account:

The Marriott customer care manager intended to spend his eight-hour overnight shift doing what he always did: helping hundreds of Marriott customers around the world as they shot complaints, questions and reward-point requests to the hotel chain’s official Twitter accounts

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by tyingq on Friday March 23, 2018 @11:19PM (#16664632)

Surely they are using some overlay tool (tweetdeck, etc) instead of direct Twitter access. The tool should have limited or used some approval process for "likes" if that was viewed as risky.

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