Twitter: some love it, some hate it. Myself, I’m addicted; there’s no hope for me. I talk so much that I’ve lost friends because of it, but that’s all I’ve lost. But a recent news story reveals that Twitter has the power to cause loss of a different sort.
According to Jon-Barrett Ingels, former waiter at Barney Greengrass in Los Angeles, “Hung” actress Jane Adams was indirectly responsible for getting him fired. Apparently Adams failed to pay her bill, which Ingels wrote about in his Twitter account. Adams’s agent paid the bill the next day, and Adams herself returned a month later and tipped him.
However, Ingels’s bosses got wind of the fact that he’d documented the entire thing on Twitter and decided to fire him over it, presumably over what they considered negative press. After five years’ employment, Ingels is currently still out of work. The restaurant has not officially responded.
Twitter, huh? Damn. I guess you never know who might be reading what you put down. I’m now following Ingels, and reading back over recent entries, I find this: “Maybe I’ll find a job as a writer. Restaurants have not been responding well.” And that completely sucks. “Had they come to me and said you need to take this down or change it to private, had I been told if you don’t do this, you’re going to lose your job — I would’ve done that,” he says. And I absolutely think he should have been given that right. Also, where is Adams during all of this? Shouldn’t her opinion count?
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