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I got a call from my boss about a 10 year old tweet I forgot I wrote
It was last Tuesday. I was at my desk in the Chicago office, just doing my normal work. My boss called me into a meeting. He showed me a screenshot of a tweet from my old account, from back in 2014. It was a dumb joke, the kind of edgy thing people said online back then. I honestly didn't even remember posting it. Someone had dug it up and sent it to HR. They said it could hurt the company's image. I had to write a formal apology and go through sensitivity training. I'm not defending the old tweet, it was stupid. But it feels weird to be held to account for a throwaway thought from a decade ago, before I even had this job. Has anyone else had a past social media post come back like this? How do you even begin to deal with it?
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willow_morgan5mo ago
Ever find a weird old Myspace comment?
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walker.max5mo ago
Yeah but can you really be the same person you were at 20 though... feels like a different life honestly.
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paigem455mo ago
Remember saying some pretty rough stuff online when I was younger and thought it was just jokes. Getting called out by a friend years later totally changed how I see things. It made me realize those old posts can really hurt people, even if I forgot about them. Now I feel like that accountability, as unfair as it feels in the moment, is part of growing up. Do you think people can truly change from who they were ten years ago?
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