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Tech Friday, February 1st 2013 at 1:50 pm

Disgruntled Employee Live-Tweets Their Own Firing From Corporate Account, Hilarity Ensues

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You might think that a large corporation would be smart enough to change the password on the company’s official Twitter account before firing the people who control said Twitter account. That’s not the case with HMV, who just fired 60 people, including the person responsible for maintaining their Twitter. This is pretty much going exactly where you think it is. Someone with control of the @hmvtweets account began live-tweeting their own termination.

The first tweet read, “We’re tweeting live from HR where we’re all being fired! Exciting!! #hmvXFactorFiring” That is exciting. So much so that over 1,300 people retweeted it in under 30 minutes. There were a total of eight #hmvXFactorFiring tweets from the account before it seems the account was wrested away from the perpetrator and put back in company control.

The best part of the whole situation was when the person being fired tweeted that they overheard the marketing director at HMV ask, “How do I shut down Twitter?” The tweets by the now-former HMV employee have been deleted from the Twitter account, but we live in the future where things on the Internet don’t ever die, so you can read them all here at Topsy.com.

Now that HMV controls the account again they’ve wasted no time making themselves look worse by tweeting this:

Stay classy, HMV!

(via Two Four Seven, image via vasta)

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  • Anonymous

    As amused am I am by this (my bosses would no idea how to access or switch passwords on our corporate email), I do wonder about what the employee who did this will say when asked about the circumstances of their departure. I can imagine it, head of a social media division saying: “So you were at HMV? Social media work? Wait, I remember that crazy thing when they had the firing! Did you know the person who did that? I would never hire them!” LOL.

  • WDancer

    As funny as this is, it’s not a firing. The company has gone bankrupt and tragically but unsurprisingly lots of people (including my family members) are losing their jobs. And as painful as it is, there’s not much the company can do about it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/troyldailey Troy Dailey

    If they’ve gone bankrupt, why is there still a marketing dept?

  • http://twitter.com/kade6767 Mitchell

    Yes, these were still firings. Just because a business is bankrupt, does not always mean they need to fire staff.