10 Scandalous Tweets That Got People Fired
By
Waleed Raza in
Funny
On 8th November 2015
In the day and age of social media, where everyone seems to be sharing every aspect of their life online, many things can go wrong.
Sure, you have the option to untag yourself from that drunk selfie your friend put on Facebook, or change that inappropriate caption on your last Instagram post, but once you upload something on the internet, chances are, you can never get rid of it.
If you’ve ever messed up on social media, thankfully you’ve never messed up as bad as these people whose career hit a roadblock in only 140 characters.
#1 This fireman was fired after he was caught being extremely s*xist on Twitter.
#2 An Obama administration employee was quickly left jobless after his tweets were discovered.
#3 She was out of it even before she started! This girl lost an employment offer after she tweeted negatively about the opportunity.
#4 This waiter at a popular location for celebrities was unhappy when Jane Adams (popular actor) left without giving the man a decent tip and took to Twitter with his rage. He was fired for handling the situation unprofessionally.
#5 A girl who dressed up as a victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings before coming to work tweeted about it to the whole world. Attempting to make a joke out of an event that left dozens injured, is a guaranteed way to get yourself kicked out of any job.
#6 This Director of Corporate Communications was caught with a tweet that was extremely racist.
#7 Who wouldn’t fire this Taco Bell employee who tweeted out images of him urinating on food while at work.
#8 This maths teacher was left jobless after she tweeted about getting high.
#9 Comedian Catherine Deveny lost her job as a writer for an Australian newspaper after tweeting about her hopes of Bindi Irwin (Steve Irwin’s daughter) getting laid.
#10 Former MLB pitcher Mike Bacsik drunk tweeted out some offensive comments during a a Mavericks-Spurs game. Mike lost his job as a radio producer from this incident.