Getting fired because of social media outrage

[Dead2009]

The other day, I came across a post on Twitter about a male Philadelphia Eagles fan berating a female Green Bay Packers fan and of course it was recorded by the woman's husband instead of stepping in to do anything about it.

The context




The dude was doxxed, and banned from Eagles games. That's perfectly acceptable. But the people of Twitter took it one step further and harassed his job to the point that they fired him over it. That being said, do you agree with people that you've never met from other states being able to harass a job to the point that someone gets fired over it?

 

[DrLeftover]

If he thought behaving like that in public towards total strangers was perfectly acceptable, then how does he act in the rest of his life?

Packers fans describe ‘dangerous situation’ that led to viral vulgar attack at Eagles game: ‘Worse and worse’

The couple said everything started off friendly, but things quickly devolved into a “dangerous situation.”

nypost.com

 

[MrDawn]

I kind of think people like that deserve it tho. It's not exactly good for business to have someone on the payroll who goes around doing that. Just look at all of the criminals who can't get or keep jobs just because of how they behaved in the past. They're getting punished by a public system & rightly so.

 

[Doc Nova]

The best part about living in the age of social media and everyone having a phone is that 98% of the time, bad behavior will be recorded. If you act like that, you deserve to be shamed publicly. You deserve to have your face plastered for everyone to see it. It's like those stupid karens who throw a fit for literally no reason. Act like a fool, you deserve anything that happens, even if you lose your job.

 

[Dead2009]

I disagree on the losing the job. Yes, shame them and mock them until the end of time. Dox their job? Nah, thats just cringe.

 

[KO896]

Is his job in customer service?

Was the guy drunk?

I don't think that the public should bully companies to do their bidding.

 

[DrLeftover]

A long time ago, in a job far, far, away, I worked with a guy who had been fired from his job at a car dealer because he got a bit "out of hand" at their Christmas party several years before.

It was a work related event, but it wasn't AT the dealership.

Is that so different than the idiot at the Eagles game?

 

[Dead2009]

A work related event is far different going to a football game, though. A work related event, you're there representing the company in some form.

 

[Cam]

In my opinion, something like this is fair game. You represent your employer in some manner everywhere you go, everything you do. If you embarrass yourself publicly like this, you risk that also impacting your employer in a negative manner. They have every right to take action over the bad publicity that goes their way.

 

[Grungie]

A long time ago, in a job far, far, away, I worked with a guy who had been fired from his job at a car dealer because he got a bit "out of hand" at their Christmas party several years before.

It was a work related event, but it wasn't AT the dealership.

Is that so different than the idiot at the Eagles game?

Well the key difference is the work related event versus doing something on his own free time. At the work related event, you're there directly with your boss and fellow employees, and there's the direct association with said car dealership.

At a football game, it required people to go digging into this guy and then find out where he works at, then contacting said buisiness.

So at a very surface level view, the scenarios are "this guy acted like a jerk and got fired", though when you start digging past the first layer, the nuances start piling up.

I'm not here to be for or against the guy in the OP, but your presented example isn't a cut and dry comparison that you're portraying it as.