Twitter and the Reds' Media Relations Assistant

Says the poster on a message board.

 

Phil Savage thinks this guy's a dope.

 

Damnit Buck, beat me to it.

Nothing irrational or in the heat of the moment has ever been posted on this site before from someone at work . . .

 

But it's usually posted anonymously.

 

The people here who have gotten in the most trouble because of this site are usually the ones who are not anonymous. I know two people who have lost jobs directly because of this site and both posted under their real name. One still posts here and the other does not. I know there's another regular who lost a job because of the site, but when he told me the story, it sounded like there were other factors as well.

 

If you think you are safe just because you post anonymously, you are naive. There's always a possibility your real ID comes out and you had better be willing to live with that fact before posting something.

 

I never really have any thoughts or emotions that are more than a standard deviation away from the mainstream, but if I did I'd think twice -- no three times -- before sharing them in any public forum (e.g., SportsJournalists.com).

 

It's much better when you try to burn a high school athlete for something they Tweet.

 

Jamie's one of the good guys. He lost his cool. I'm sure he realized he messed up as soon as he sent the DM. Reds fans and media would be worse off if he lost his job.

On a related note, I think there's a difference between being a media watchdog and being a whiny, snot-nosed internet tattle tale. I'm not sure Deadspin agrees.

 

Yeah, I have a little sympathy when Deadspin goes after this kid... Lynn Hoppes, not so much...

 

Me too ... a little. But there's also a sense of big-boy job equals big-boy ramifications when you screw up. Like DMurphy alluded to - when he sent that DM, he had to know there was a zero percent chance of it not coming back to bite him in the ass. DM or no DM, there was literally nothing good that could have come from that message. It's a horrible lack of judgment to send that.

That said, I hope it's not a fireable offense. On his regular Twitter account, I think it would have been. But as a DM, sitting him down for a couple weeks and throwing the fear of God into him at the prospect of losing a dream job is punishment enough.

 

This makes the first time Bubbler has been able to write that he's smart enough to do anything. [/baiting]