Tweeted out of a job: The "Cisco Fatty" story
By Cisco Subnet on Wed, 03/18/09 - 4:16pm.
Twitter is all a-tweet with the recent exchange between a prospective Cisco hire and another Cisco employee. The first wrote (the tweet has since been deleted):
Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against the daily commute to San Jose and hating the work.
The tweet was seen by a channel partner advocate for Cisco, who tweeted back:
@theconnor Who is the hiring manager. I'm sure they would love to know that you will hate the work. We here at Cisco are versed in the web.
The career-limiting faux pas has been immortalized with its own "Cisco Fatty" Web site.
So remember, kids, protect yourselves.
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HAHA
Yeah...the level of stupidity for some people never ends.
Even more Haha
Some guys enjoy cutting the very branch, they are sitting upon. :P
DOH!
How dumb can people be about these new forms of mass, public communication? It is the same with Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, etc. There is more career-limiting material available on these sites than there is anything of substance.
- Tweetless in Sacramento
Good will
How much good will could Cisco now generate by hiring the poor Ms Riley now? Cisco could make good with a show of benevolence and Ms Riley could make a miraculous recovery from her 'duh' moment... Win win and tons of continuing press...
btw, your captcha sucks, there are no 'words' in it, just gibberish. Only a trained monkey would answer it. Where's my banana damn it??
Come on now...
This is what I warn my kids about. The Advocate is just looking out for Cisco. @theconnor has just set the best example one can set for teaching our friends and family (especially our kids) what NOT to do. HR departments are evaluating our social networking sites and google before making hiring decision and people need to learn.
Thanks @theconnor for the example but I'm sorry for your. I hope you learned this valuable lesson.
We must be aware of this and keep our accounts clean. I am fowarding this info to my kids today.
Unintended but not unexpected consequences
Once one 'lets go of the bits..' they're out there for all to see. If you don't want them to come back to bite you in the butt later; then one must take care when releasing them in the first place.
but is it true
I checked the twitter page for the Cisco person, and do not see the tweet
It's true
It would appear the Cisco person deleted it. The tweet was there when I wrote this.
Jeff Caruso
Network World Executive Online Editor
She got the gig??!!?
I wonder if she got the gig so they could meet her F2F.
ROTFL&NPMP! (nearly peed my pants!)
IMHO - Any kid fresh from college thinks that work (of any kind) sucks, no matter what. Far too damned many of them didn't have to lift a finger to pay for the past umpteen years of education, room and board, plus their partying.
I would love to be a fly on the wall when theconnor tells Mom and Dad about the tremendous anterior-anal inversion that was accomplished with this act of supreme stupidity.
It's all I can hope for to show the arrogant know-it-alls that they too can be incredibly stupid. The question is, will they learn from it?
Question:
We've now proven that supposedly intelligent people can be hideously stupid in the right circumstances. Does this mean that Darwin was wrong, or just his logic only has a shotgun level of accuracy (00 or birdshot?!) than the sniper rifle accuracy we seem to expect?
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