Sure, I could have used today’s post to address yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court decision about EEOC conciliation efforts.
But this is The Employer Handbook. It’s not like I just got the call up to the major leagues.
By now, my blog game is hella-strong, yo! I troll sites like TMZ and Deadspin for fodder. And when I see stories like Samar Kalef’s “Rockets’ Twitter Guy Fired Over Emoji Violence“, well, like a moth to a flame.
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On Tuesday night, the Houston Rockets played the Dallas Mavericks in Game 5 of the first round of their NBA playoff series. While the Rockets, up three games to one, looked to close out the best-of-seven series on the court, Chad Shanks, the Rockets’ Digital Communications manager, was tweeting away (alley-oop tweet, funny tweet, Mystikal tweet).
Then, with the Rockets closing in a victory, YIKES! A tweet with an emoji gun pointed at an emoji horse head, and the message: “Shhhhh. Just close your eyes. It will all be over soon.”
And, yesterday, in a series of apologetic tweets, Mr. Shanks confirmed that his emoji tweet had cost him his job.
