A contractor for the automobile company, Chrysler, made a rather costly mistake after he released
a tweet poking fun at Detroit drivers on Chrysler’s official twitter account. Detroit is known
as “The Motor City” and while stuck in traffic on Interstate 696 in Detroit, the
Chrysler employee tweeted out, “I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity
and yet no one here knows how to f*ck*ng drive”. Unbeknownst to him, the Chrysler contractor
tweeted this on Chrysler’s official Twitter account as opposed to his own personal account
but the damage was already done. He was fired as a result and Chrysler later apologised
saying, “Chrysler Group and its brands do not tolerate inappropriate language or behaviour,
and apologize to anyone who may have been offended by this communication.”
A firefighter from Toronto by the name of Matt Bowman, got into a bit of heat after
he made a series of misogynistic remarks on his Twitter account. The first tweet being,
“Reject a woman and she will never let it go. One of the many defects of their kind.
Also weak arms.” The second tweet wasn’t any better as he tweeted out, “I’d never
let a woman kick my ass. If she tried something, I’d be like HEY! You get your b*tch ass
back in the kitchen and make me some pie!”. Needless to say, instead of dealing with a
fire, the firefighter dealt with a firing for his sexist and derogatory comments.
A 22-year-old woman from Michigan by the name of Alicia Ann Lynch became subject of a widespread
backlash after she tweeted a photo of herself, dressed up as a Boston Marathon bombing victim
with the following caption: “And the most offensive costume at work goes to…#toosoon?”.
The 22-year-old woman can be seen smiling in the picture wearing a blue marathon shirt
with the number 739 along with fake blood and wounds on her head and the rest of her
body. Many were outraged by the insensitive tweet as the Boston Marathon bombing saw three
civilians killed and around 264 injured. Lynch received numerous death threats and even threats
of rape. Things took a turn for the worse when her personal details were leaked online
including her home address and even her parents’ phone number. Lynch deleted all her social
media accounts, however, later re-opened them in order to apologise. Unsurprisingly, she
was fired from her job, which she revealed in a tweet, saying “I have been fired from
my job. I am paying for what I thought was a simple joke. I know it was wrong now. I
wasn’t thinking.”
A 23-year-old ‘High’ School math teacher… you will get that joke very shortly… from
Colorado by the name of Carly McKinney was fired from her job after she released a series
of tweets boasting about smoking marijuana as well as possessing it on school grounds.
She posted these tweets under the name “Crunk_Bear”, crunk meaning to get crazy and drunk. One
of the tweets read, “Naked. Wet. Stoned.”, while another read, “Watching a drug bust
go down in the parking lot. It’s funny cuz I have weed in my car in the staff parking
lot.” Not only this but several images of her smoking marijuana were posted on her Twitter
account in addition to numerous revealing photos. Shortly after these tweets were discovered,
the 23-year-old math teacher was fired from her job. I guess she can add up where she
went wrong there.
Justine Sacco, a PR consultant for InterActiveCorp, was at the centre of a Twitter storm when
she tweeted out a single racist remark that she deemed was funny. Shortly before boarding
a flight to Cape Town, South Africa, Sacco tweeted out the following, “Going to Africa.
Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” Thousands online were furious over
the tweet and the hashtag “#HasJustineLandedYet” started trending worldwide. Sacco soon deleted
the tweet as well as all of her social media accounts, however, the damage was irreparable.
Although Sacco issued an apology for her distasteful comment, that did not stop
her from getting fired from her job.