How to lose a job BEFORE you even start: Teen fired after complaining on Twitter about starting

dailymail.co.uk ^ | february 10, 2015 | michael zennie

[lowbridge]

A Texas teenager has been fired from her job at a pizza parlor before she even started after she sent out a tweet complaining about the gig and her new boss saw it. 

In a hilarious Twitter exchange, a twitter user who goes by 'Cella' wrote: 'Ew I start this f*** a** job tomorrow.'

The next morning, Robert Waple - the owner of Jet's Pizza in Mansfield, Texas - tweeted at her: 'And....no you don't start that FA job today! I just fired you! Good luck with your no money, no job life!' 

He was moved to tweet for only the second time since he started the account in 2009.  

[Tucker39]

Croc Dundee sez, “No worries.”

[Oberon]

You’re welcome.

[nothingnew]

That brings back memories.

Yes it does. It reminds me that I am now an old curmudgeon.....and I like it.

FMCDH(BITS)

[ifinnegan]

“Good punctuation and grammar are the bedrocks of a civil society.”

So is being civil and Oberon’s response was condescending and uncivil.

[tenger]

This was back in 2011:

Connor Riley had a job offer from Cisco on the table. She tweeted: “Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.”

Shortly after that, there was a reply from Cisco employee Tim Levad: “Who is the hiring manager? I’m sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the Web.”

[SamAdams76]

I’ve never been a big fan of it though.

Why not? I worked in a restaurant too when I was a teenager and those were some of the best memories of my life. I washed dishes, bussed tables, waited tables, took out the trash, made salads, filled in as short-order cook. I pretty much did it all and it was a blast. Free meals. Got to replace the kegs in the bar and I'd always pour a tall paper cup for myself - you know - just to test it out.

We blasted music in the kitchen all night long and this was the late 1970s so we had quite a blend of music.

I would go back to those days in a heartbeat - especially knowing what I know now. I'd be a billionaire today.

[ansel12]

I’ve worked in plenty of restaurants from dish washing to management and like it fine, evidently better than someone who only did a little of it as a teen.

My statement was about work in general, I’m not a big fan of it.

Working in a restaurant was always available to you, even as a second or third job, or night work, or weekends, or in all kinds of ways, so what made you not keep doing what you enjoyed so much?

[SamAdams76]

It was a need to make more money and support a family. Fortunately I’ve liked most of the jobs I’ve had since then. But that particular restaurant job was probably a unique experience. It was an independently owned restaurant and the owner was quite generous to the employees there. For example, we were allowed anything we wanted on the menu for a meal during our shift. Even if it was lobster or scallops, etc. And if we wanted something from the bar, we got that as well. Not sure that would be allowed these days.

[Fresh Wind]

I’ve had lousy jobs. Most of us have.

But the good thing about lousy jobs is that they teach you to not want a lousy job all your life.

But in my day, that meant getting a better job, and then a better job after that.

Today it means never getting a job ever.

[trebb]

Is anyone surprised by this? When I turned 16, I couldn’t wait to work.

Same here - lied about my age at 15 and started part time at a Shakey's Pizza to get some money and prep for buying a car when i got my license.

[octex]

But that is the trouble, these stupid kids don’t realize that EVERYONE can find out what they are posting if they try hard enough. And their idiot brains don’t comprehend the long-term effects they can have. ...
I’m sure glad the internet wasn’t around when I was a kid!
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Reminded me of when I was a 10th-grader in HS in the late ‘50s. Girl I’d been seeing had moved and left stuff in her locker. ...She had notes from me in one of the books left there. One of the notes was about me ranting about the Asst. Principal and referred to him as a SOB because of some discipline he had put on me.

I had to go to his office. He talked with me for about 30 minutes. (He really did care about students) He told about being a Navy CMDR. on a DD in WWII, his upbringing, etc.

By the time it was over, I had sincerely appologized to him. Though he busted my butt with a paddle a couple of times later for my bad acts, we still remained friends. ...He subsequently became a very well liked Principal at a new high school.

Just telling this to show that it’s not only the new technology that allows people to become aware of your comments.

[21twelve]

“But the good thing about lousy jobs is that they teach you to not want a lousy job all your life.”

I wwould help my old man on his construction jobs as a kid. After digging a ditch by hand or wrestling timbers in the mud into place he would always say “Well, now you know what you DON’T want to be when you grow up.”

I often tell my clients that as I am laying sensors out on a muddy landslide, or hacking a trail through thick brush! (Except I love it!)

[21twelve]

“I had to go to his office. He talked with me for about 30 minutes.”

Too bad this business guy couldn’t have used it as a teaching experience. Although that isn’t his job, and I’m sure his time is limited. And if I had been the kid, getting fired WOULD have been my learning experience.

[southern rock]

but how would the employer know to pull up the tweet of a new employee unless he was cyber stalking her tweets and anything else she was on? Could someone else forward her tweet to him?

He wouldn't. This guy seems like a paranoid, loose cannon nutcase.