Author's book publication cancelled after a tweet reporting on a WMATA employee eating on the metro

[Anonymous]

I swear to God I hope somebody comes to each of your jobs and takes a picture of you doing some crap That’s against thebusiness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I swear to God I hope somebody comes to each of your jobs and takes a picture of you doing some crap That’s against thebusiness.

Hit submit by accident.
I hope someday somebody takes a picture of you at your job doing something that’s against the rules
printing out pictures of Larla in the school play
taking home pens
using the stapler to staple your insurance claims
taking it extra coffee creamers
Taking 31 minutes for your 30 minute lunch
Making personal calls from that company phone
Coming in 10 minutes late
Leaving 15 minutes early
Calling in sick when you really want to see the avengers
Taking your college roommate who is in town on business to lunch and expensing it calling it a business meeting
Calling in sick so you can chaperone a
little Becky on field trip

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I swear to God I hope somebody comes to each of your jobs and takes a picture of you doing some crap That’s against thebusiness.

Hit submit by accident.
I hope someday somebody takes a picture of you at your job doing something that’s against the rules
printing out pictures of Larla in the school play
taking home pens
using the stapler to staple your insurance claims
taking it extra coffee creamers
Taking 31 minutes for your 30 minute lunch
Making personal calls from that company phone
Coming in 10 minutes late
Leaving 15 minutes early
Calling in sick when you really want to see the avengers
Taking your college roommate who is in town on business to lunch and expensing it calling it a business meeting
Calling in sick so you can chaperone a
little Becky on field trip

Some of these are really egregious! Calling in sick to take your kid to a field trip? Using the color printer for personal reasons? I've never done that.

No one cares if you use the stapler. No one. I promise you, even my boss doesn't care if I use the stapler for personal reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I swear to God I hope somebody comes to each of your jobs and takes a picture of you doing some crap That’s against thebusiness.

Hit submit by accident.
I hope someday somebody takes a picture of you at your job doing something that’s against the rules
printing out pictures of Larla in the school play
taking home pens
using the stapler to staple your insurance claims
taking it extra coffee creamers
Taking 31 minutes for your 30 minute lunch
Making personal calls from that company phone
Coming in 10 minutes late
Leaving 15 minutes early
Calling in sick when you really want to see the avengers
Taking your college roommate who is in town on business to lunch and expensing it calling it a business meeting
Calling in sick so you can chaperone a
little Becky on field trip

Some of these are really egregious! Calling in sick to take your kid to a field trip? Using the color printer for personal reasons? I've never done that.

No one cares if you use the stapler. No one. I promise you, even my boss doesn't care if I use the stapler for personal reasons.

Dummy it’s not about if somebody cares the point is, it is against the rules.
The Metro employee’s boss may not care but you seem to care that it’s against the rules.
I guarantee you the rules of your employment say that you’re not to use company property for personal reasons and private usage it doesn’t matter whether not your boss “cares”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:
No, I do not think anyone should eat on the underground public transport in a city full of rats.

This author was not in the wrong in calling an employee out.

I do not know the reason for the publication cancellation, but if the tweet is really the reason, then it's deplorable. And really weird.

The author is in the wrong because she was a COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONAL. How can that be your job and you don't know when to keep your mouth shut?

Just like Justine Sacco and her AIDs tweet.



https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911074/justine-sacco-iac-match-group-return-tweet

Does a communications professional hamper you from calling out people who do wrong in their professional capacity? Metro employees should model good behavior on Metro. Seems like a no-brainer, and anyone who sees them do otherwise can absolutely call them out on social media.

I really don't understand why you don't get this.

Maybe that was the only break that woman got
Maybe she was rushed that day
Maybe she was tired from dealing with ignorant fools like you in the metro all day!!

PSA: metro workers are union and get plenty of breaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
No, I do not think anyone should eat on the underground public transport in a city full of rats.

This author was not in the wrong in calling an employee out.

I do not know the reason for the publication cancellation, but if the tweet is really the reason, then it's deplorable. And really weird.

The author is in the wrong because she was a COMMUNICATIONS PROFESSIONAL. How can that be your job and you don't know when to keep your mouth shut?

Just like Justine Sacco and her AIDs tweet.



https://www.vox.com/2018/1/19/16911074/justine-sacco-iac-match-group-return-tweet

Does a communications professional hamper you from calling out people who do wrong in their professional capacity? Metro employees should model good behavior on Metro. Seems like a no-brainer, and anyone who sees them do otherwise can absolutely call them out on social media.

I really don't understand why you don't get this.

Maybe that was the only break that woman got
Maybe she was rushed that day
Maybe she was tired from dealing with ignorant fools like you in the metro all day!!

PSA: metro workers are union and get plenty of breaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is political correctness run amok. All the woman did is tweet a picture of an employee flouting Metro's own rules. And now the employee is the victim? Ridiculous.

Welcome to cancel culture!!

[Anonymous]

So she tried to shame and get a WMATA employee fired and instead got herself fired. I don’t get why ppl are upset she lost her book deal. Seems like karma/justice/ironic to me. Her new phrase needs to be, “stay in your own lane.”

[Anonymous]

I think the author's own identity as a self-professed WoC is relevant here. The perception is that she leverages that identity for professional gain, but goes all Barbeque Becky when she sees a Black woman eating a snack, is the crux of the issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So she tried to shame and get a WMATA employee fired and instead got herself fired. I don’t get why ppl are upset she lost her book deal. Seems like karma/justice/ironic to me. Her new phrase needs to be, “stay in your own lane.”

WMATA folks are paid by taxpayers.

We can all expose their sh!tty work habits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is political correctness run amok. All the woman did is tweet a picture of an employee flouting Metro's own rules. And now the employee is the victim? Ridiculous.

Welcome to cancel culture!!

But why did she do it? Is she going around the city taking pictures of everyone who flouts the rules? Maybe she was annoyed about the worker eating, but most normal people (I hope) don’t take pictures of others without permission and then post them online. What did she hope to achieve?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Metro has a rule about not eating on trains. As a metro employee, one should be aware of this. The race does not matter, rules are rules and this applies to everyone.

Rules don't apply to black people, everyone knows that.

Welcome to America.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Again, let's stipulate that her tweet (for which she has apologized) was unnecessary and thoughtless. Let's even go further and say that her tweet reeked of racial and class entitlement.

Stipulate all that. But: Why has her book contract been cancelled?

In exactly what way is social justice enhanced by preventing her novel from being published?

That's the kind of sick sh*t that happens in totalitarian societies. Twitter mobs go after you; your friends and colleagues instantly desert you and condemn you; you become a non-person.

This does not advance racial justice. It just adds another injustice on top of the first.

Publishers are allowed to decide who they want to associate with. The author's actions highlighted a part of her personality that they weren't aware of and perhaps made them not interested in having to promote her. A private publisher has every right to decide who they want to go into business with. Having her novel published was not some inalienable right.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again, let's stipulate that her tweet (for which she has apologized) was unnecessary and thoughtless. Let's even go further and say that her tweet reeked of racial and class entitlement.

Stipulate all that. But: Why has her book contract been cancelled?

In exactly what way is social justice enhanced by preventing her novel from being published?

That's the kind of sick sh*t that happens in totalitarian societies. Twitter mobs go after you; your friends and colleagues instantly desert you and condemn you; you become a non-person.

This does not advance racial justice. It just adds another injustice on top of the first.

Publishers are allowed to decide who they want to associate with. The author's actions highlighted a part of her personality that they weren't aware of and perhaps made them not interested in having to promote her. A private publisher has every right to decide who they want to go into business with. Having her novel published was not some inalienable right.

Exactly.

Goebbels would be proud of you two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is political correctness run amok. All the woman did is tweet a picture of an employee flouting Metro's own rules. And now the employee is the victim? Ridiculous.

Welcome to cancel culture!!

But why did she do it? Is she going around the city taking pictures of everyone who flouts the rules? Maybe she was annoyed about the worker eating, but most normal people (I hope) don’t take pictures of others without permission and then post them online. What did she hope to achieve?

Agree. I don’t care about their race, taking a candid picture of a stranger and posting it on the internet for the whole world to see is awful. I see it all the time in memes, viral fb posts and so on. It’s rude and I’m glad she was fired from her publisher. Enough is enough.