Ouch On Feb 3, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Don't Fire An Employee And Leave Them In Charge Of The Corporate Twitter > Account > > > Yesterday HMV, the beleaguered British entertainment retailer, laid off 190 > employees, in an effort to cut costs and right its balance sheet. The > company apparently pulled a large group into human resources and gave them > the bad news. While this was going on, one employee, Poppy Rose, who had > been an HMV community manager and thus had access to the corporate Twitter > account, started live tweeting about the layoffs. > > Over a period of around 20 minutes, she sent out a series of notes > expressing her rising sense of alarm to HMVâs 61,500 followers (that number > has since risen to 73,350). Rose admitted that it was unusual to use the > company Twitter feed to express her views, but, she wrote, âwhen the > company you dearly love is being ruined,â she felt it was justified. > âThere are over 60 of us being fired at once!â she wrote. âMass > execution, > of loyal employees who love the brand.â > > One of the most entertaining tweets that came through before HMV took back > the account and deleted the offending tweets: âJust overheard our marketing > director (heâs staying, folks) ask âHow do I shut down Twitter?ââ > > > > http://www.forbes.com/sites/susanadams/2013/02/01/dont-fire-an-employee-and-leave-them-in-charge-of-the-corporate-twitter-account/ > > > An interesting read with some screen caps of the tweets. > > J > > - > > The private sector is doing fine - Ba > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360634 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
