My sister told me to scrub my old tweets before I started my new job at the school district.

I got hired as a teaching assistant in Springfield last fall. My sister, who works in HR, kept bugging me for weeks to go through my Twitter from college and delete anything dumb. I told her it was from like 2013, nobody cared, and it was a pain. I did a quick look but missed a lot. Three months into the job, a parent found a tweet where I joked about skipping class to go to a concert. It got screenshotted and sent to the principal. They said it showed bad judgment for a role model, even though it was old. I got let go. My sister was right, I should have taken a full afternoon to clean it all out. Has anyone else lost a job over a joke from a decade ago?

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keith_bennett1mo ago

Man, that's brutal. So you got fired for basically doing what every college kid does. Guess they wanted a teaching assistant who spent their youth studying in a library with no internet.

amy_craig281mo ago

What, did they want a robot who never made a dumb post in their life?

karencampbell1mo ago

Right, like they wanted someone whose entire life was a library study session. Good luck finding that person.