Redditors who lost their job because of a post to a social media platform.

What happened?

I recently come into contact with a few people who lost their job over a Facebook-type

social media outlet post, and it got me wondering,

what kind of jobs take social media posts so seriously?

I worked customer support for a mobile game company.

I was honest with a disheartened customer, who had complained that recent changes had made the game pay to win.

It had, in truth, been a glitch with an update.

I told them as much, assuring them the team would be fixing it in the next update.

But then the game's profits skyrocketed.

The team kept the glitch and put out a statement describing the change as an intentional

one designed to improve the play experience. But there was my name, plastered all over the game

forums, claiming the opposite. I technically worked for a separate company that provided support

for several studios, but the studio behind this game was our biggest customer. They approached my

bosses, furious that I jeopardized

their cash cow, and demanded I be fired. I promptly became familiar with the underside of the

bus as I was gone within the week. TLDR worked customer support for mobile games, told truth, when

viral-ish, fired. Didn't lose my job, but I watched a friend lose his over a tweet.

He tweeted, so getting head while delivering pizzas is pretty sweet, one night while he was

working.

The next morning, he tweeted,

Yo, screw you, Papa Johns, I don't need you or your stupid job anyway, or something to that

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