Vent: My friend from college got fired over a tweet from 2012 he forgot about

He was a teacher in Denver, and the school board said a single joke he made a decade ago, when we were dumb 20-year-olds, made him unfit to work there now.

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phoenix_carter1mo ago

Look at my old tweets and fire me too, @henry604 (my 2012 self was a real piece of work).

jordan_young12d ago

Wait, did the school board actually look at the tweet or did someone dig it up and show them? I had a buddy who lost his job at a bank because of a tweet from his freshman year of college where he joked about wanting to "prank the boss" on April Fools. It was literally nothing, but the bank's legal team said it showed a pattern of "disrespect for authority" or whatever. @phoenix_carter, it's wild how a stupid joke from a decade ago can still follow you around like a shadow. Honestly, it makes me wonder who benefits from dragging up old tweets anyway.

henry6041mo ago

Man... I hate to say it but the school board might have a point. Teachers are held to a higher standard, and a public joke online is basically forever. It doesn't really matter when he said it, parents will find it now and freak out. They have to think about how it looks for the whole school.