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My old tweet from 2014 got me in trouble at work last month
I was at my office in Phoenix, just doing my normal job, when my boss called me into a meeting. Someone had found a stupid joke I tweeted when I was 19, a decade ago, and sent it to HR. It was a bad joke, I admit that now, but it felt like a different life. They said it didn't match the company's values and put me on a 'corrective action plan' for a month. I had to write a formal apology and do sensitivity training. The worst part was the silence from coworkers who saw the whole thing go down. It's settled now, but I feel like I'm walking on eggshells. Has anyone else had a really old post come back to bite them at a new job?
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victorb741mo ago
Honestly, that's rough. It's crazy how a dumb joke from a decade ago can follow you like that. Tbh, it makes you wonder if anyone from HR has a perfect record from 2014. I'd be paranoid about everything I ever posted online now, even the totally normal stuff. It feels like you're being judged for a person you don't even remember being.
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terryh201mo ago
Man, that's like getting a parking ticket for a car you sold years ago. They dug up a fossil and decided it's still a crime scene. Guess we all need to go back and delete our MySpace top eight drama while we're at it. Hope the sensitivity training came with a time machine so you could explain modern jokes to your past self.
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