Recruiting forum off topic thread (no politics, covid, or hot button issues)

[mr.checkerboards]

It wasn’t supposedly racist.

How is a word so offensive that a certain subset of people use it freely on the daily? But another subset cannot use it at all. It's just something to be mad about to be mad about.

 

[Aesius]

Same difference. Every job and social connection has been blighted.

Yep. Googling her name will bring this up because someone is going to write an article about it.

That said, I bet a business owner in the Knoxville area will see this story and give her a job.

 

[MarcoVol]

How is a word so offensive that a certain subset of people use it freely on the daily? But another subset cannot use it at all. It's just something to be mad about to be mad about.

Don’t do this

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Don’t do this

I'll take my chances. If I get put in timeout I get put in time out.

 

[joevols89]

How is a word so offensive that a certain subset of people use it freely on the daily? But another subset cannot use it at all. It's just something to be mad about to be mad about.

If you have to ask you’ll never understand it. But tell me how “I need a slave” is okay to tweet?

 

[Ashevolle]

How is a word so offensive that a certain subset of people use it freely on the daily? But another subset cannot use it at all. It's just something to be mad about to be mad about.

Sounds like you're pretty mad about it

 

[InVOLuntary]

It wasn’t supposedly racist.

What was it?

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Sounds like you're pretty mad about it

Mad nah. Just super tired of this woke cancel culture, double standard society I've grown up in.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

If you have to ask you’ll never understand it. But tell me how “I need a slave” is okay to tweet?

Did I ask about that tweet?

 

[joevols89]

Did I ask about that tweet?

I don’t care.

 

[Nash_Vol97]

No offense but if you’re 18 and looking to go into a career in reporting/journalism you should know better. If I was a public figure I would’ve made sure i scrubbed my social media years ago when this started becoming a thing.

She studied this stuff in school. If she was 12 she definitely gets a pass but I just confirmed she attended UT 2014-2017.

I get the takes people have that we shouldn’t have to scrub our social media and I agree to an extent, but jeez, it’s just so easy. There are literally websites out there that will delete all of your tweets with the click of a button and other ones that will scrape all of your tweets and search for anything offensive, and then let you individually delete them if found. It’s just so easy to do so that you don’t get into a situation like this one.

 

[SamRebel35]

"Hey Siri, how do you make a white girl resent black culture?"

"Easy. Fire white girls who repeat some of the words from the music that they love"

 

[volinokc]

I've lived in Washington State since 2013 so it hasn't been an issue for a long time. I can't even stand visiting a state where it's illegal anymore. I get off the plane like, "damn, they still make places like this?"

Weed is losing its mystery and appeal for teens here. I’m not saying they won’t dabble, but it’s kind of like Facebook to them..something for the olds.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

I don’t care.

Then I don't have to answer your question. But your posts on the subject seem to make one think you care a lot.

 

[joevols89]

Then I don't have to answer your question. But your posts on the subject seem to make one think you care a lot.

Ironic.

 

[InVOLuntary]

I get the takes people have that we shouldn’t have to scrub our social media and I agree to an extent, but jeez, it’s just so easy. There are literally websites out there that will delete all of your tweets with the click of a button and other ones that will scrape all of your tweets and search for anything offensive, and then let you individually delete them if found. It’s just so easy to do so that you don’t get into a situation like this one.

Easiest thing to do is don't tweet or insta or any of those types of things and if you do be as benign as one can be. People are watching. The government is watching. (I'm probably on some list ). This is especially true if you if you're counter to mainstream media culture.

 

[mr.checkerboards]

Ironic.

I said above I was annoyed by the topic because of the double standard in the society I've grown up in.

 

[InVOLuntary]

Twitter receipts got Kasey Funderburg. Fired a couple of n words back in 2013/2014 and someone reported her. Not sure how old she was back then but doesn’t matter in this day and age.

She was probably just tweeting lyrics to a rap song.

 

[omghulkhands]

I won’t comment on whether she should be fired or not.

But I KNEW without a doubt people saying she was “12 or 14” was BS.

 

[RikidyBones]

Easiest thing to do is don't tweet or insta or any of those types of things and if you do be as benign as one can be. People are watching. The government is watching. (I'm probably on some list ). This is especially true if you if you're counter to mainstream media culture.

To be fair though, the cancel culture power on normal people is fairly new (last 6 years?) I'm sure she didn't remember the tweets.

If I was her boss, I'd talk to her about it, have her scrub it, make an apology post and move on. If the post was recent, then that's a different story.

 

[Orange_Crush]

Mad nah. Just super tired of this woke cancel culture, double standard society I've grown up in.

Sounds like maybe she loaded the cancel gun and:

 

[Kristy*]

I still don’t even know what she tweeted.

But she was fired from her job, not cast away to an island where she can no longer participate in society.

But she was fired from her job for something she said before she had that job when she was a teenager. How about letting her acknowledge and apologize for the mistake instead? Everyone makes mistakes. People can mature.

 

[joevols89]

To be fair though, the cancel culture power on normal people is fairly new (last 6 years?) I'm sure she didn't remember the tweets.

If I was her boss, I'd talk to her about it, have her scrub it, make an apology post and move on. If the post was recent, then that's a different story.

Problem is people outside of UT/Voltwitter already picked up on it and were tagging other people in it. At that point it can start to hurt recruiting among other things to keep her employed.

 

[Nash_Vol97]

Easiest thing to do is don't tweet or insta or any of those types of things and if you do be as benign as one can be. People are watching. The government is watching. (I'm probably on some list ). This is especially true if you if you're counter to mainstream media culture.

Absolutely, but teenagers do and say really dumb things. And now half of the dumb things they say in person also end up being tweeted, posted, etc

 

[RikidyBones]

Problem is people outside of UT/Voltwitter already picked up on it and were tagging other people in it. At that point it can start to hurt recruiting among other things to keep her employed.

Nonsense. There are democratic politicians in an all white country club and they still get committee appointments. It'd blow over.