The Power of Social Media: Laid Off HMV Employee Tweets About Pink Slips
Here’s a conundrum: You’re management, you’ve just laid off a group of employees but oops! You forgot one of them, a community manager, still has access to your Twitter and Facebook accounts.
Enter HMV. Last week the British entertainment retailer let go 190 employees, one of whom was Poppy Rose, the community manager. You can guess what happened next: Rose started live tweeting about the lay offs.
To some, this may be considered career suicide. After all, would a future employer really want to know one of their workers could potentially embarrass them and speak out publicly? Then again, isn’t that a “risk” they assume with potential employees and social media accounts?
To others, it’s a social media skill that’s coveted by many employers.
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