
By Ray Wert This guy was unnecessarily fired for F-ing up Chrysler's Twitter account
Bartosiewicz allegedly sent out a tweet using Chrysler's official Twitter account saying "I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the #motorcity and yet no one here knows how to fucking drive." That tweet allegedly caused New Media Strategies, the social media firm Chrysler had under contract to strategize how they talk to the internet, to fire Bartosiewicz. Today, we also learned that Chrysler said it would not renew its contract with NMS for the remainder of 2011. Despite attempts to reach Bartosiewicz, he has not yet returned our calls or our message left on his voice mail so we could get his side of the story. Frankly, if he was the f-bomb-dropper, his side of the story seems to be a sympathetic one. Bartosiewicz has, according to his LinkedIn profile, been an "Account Supervisor" working for New Media Strategies (NMS) on the Chrysler account since August of last year. We also know he had access to the Twitter account.
Even if he didn't send the tweet — and our so-far completely right source is positive he did — the guy lost his job because of it. Along with a few other people. Like 40 of them.
You tell me which kid from metro Detroit deserved to be fired — Eminem or Bartosiewicz? I know Eminem will do just fine either way. I'm really hoping Bartosiewicz gets a second shot. | March 11th, 2011 Top Stories |
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