I try to follow social media trends and the impact it has on the world of work as best I can but lately I’m finding it hard to keep up with all the career-killing mistakes people are making due to inappropriate tweets.
The latest Twitter “whoops” I just heard about belongs to Scott Bartosiewicz, an employee at New Media Strategies, the marketing firm representing Chrysler. Frustrated about being stuck in traffic, Bartosiewicz tweeted:
“I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to (expletive) drive.”
The tweet was meant to appear on his personal account, but Bartosiewicz mistakenly sent it to the Chrysler brand’s feed. So now Bartosiewicz is out of a job and New Media Strategies is down one account.
This actually happened a few months ago and since I missed this one I did some research to see if I’d missed anything else. I came upon this great post from Mashable on Ten People Who Lost Jobs Over Social Media Mistakes. Read this and you’ll have practically every career-killing social media mistake covered.
