I’m sure she enjoyed learning she was unemployed after she got off her flight. Just ecstatic, I’m sure.
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She was finally forced to face the consequences. It’s not like this was even the most offensive tweet she’s made. It happens. Her father is a billionaire, though; I don’t expect she’ll end up homeless.
It’s just a bit difficult to pronounce:
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She put her title and company in the profile. I have trouble considering that a purely personal account.
Well, except that this is pretty much the opposite of what happened, which is that a woman who made a comment on Twitter, which, without context, sounds horribly racist (and might not be any better in context, who knows), and not only lost her job over the Tweet right before Christmas, she made international news despite not being anyone of note and representative of a company most of us have probably never heard of but are familiar with due to their brands. But by God, ABC News saw it as newsworthy, and the crowd here seems to understand that she’s the worst human being since Hitler.
I’m gonna say it: Thank God I’m not a woman. Y’all get held to a way higher standard. A guy wouldn’t have gotten fired before the plane even landed, that’s for damn sure.
Having said that…if you’re working in that kind of field, it’s probably best to attempt edgy comedy under a different handle, in case you don’t want to get fired while you’re on the plane.
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Just guessing here: rich white frat brothers steal one of the opposing team’s (U.S.) football goalposts?
You don’t have to be rich, white, or in a fraternity to be engaged in pranks of this sort.
(Though I tend to prefer the MIT approach to such things. Usually more subtle and elegant.)
ITA. Just trying to figure out what the message was in that photo, that’s all.
Point granted, then; I’m not sure I see the relevance either. (Oh, I know: the relevance are behind the trees, with the rest of the circus.)
He is accusing her of “moving the goalposts”.
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Ah. Cute. Unclear it’s relevant, but cute.
Oooh. whoosh Thanks!
Looking at the picture I did not immediately realize that they *were* goalposts. I saw the post before the system edited it, so I was able to see that the original URL has “goalposts” in it. From there it was “goalposts” => “moving the goalposts”, but otherwise I would have had no clue.
I remember when MIT stole Caltech’s cannon. The dean at my school sent out this email:
Did anyone steal the Caltech cannon Monday night/Tuesday morning? They called and said it was stolen and were hoping it was here.
Yes, that was the entire body of the email.
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True. And many years ago, that sort of prank was more common at MIT – I must admit I still love the classic barber-pole story. But in recent years, MIT students have been more likely to contribute something harmless but entertaining to a campus than to do an unauthorized borrowing – such as the several times the statue of John Harvard has been discovered to be wearing an MIT school ring.
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