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Did April Martinson Deserve To Get Piped From Her Job?
If you are unfamiliar with this one, April Martinson worked in inside sales for some auction company called Bidadoo. Sometime after Trump officially took office, she posted a TikTok about deportations and it’s pretty vulgar/vile, but also straight from most MAGA-y people. You’d see worse stuff on X if you scrolled that site for 14 seconds, probably. She says people are crying and she doesn’t care, families should all just leave for Mexico, etc. It’s pretty par for the course for “mask off” people, I.e. people who think they can now say how they actually feel because their particular loser politician got the bag this time. The liberals are the same way with other topics. We’re all broken messes, really.
Here is a video that covers most of it:
April did get fired from Bidadoo, just like “Central Park Karen” got fired from her investment job back in May 2020. Since social media got to scale, in 2004 or so, we have seen hundreds of firings tied to something someone did or said on social media. I was going to quit a job at TCU, and eventually did, but I put myself in the line of firing at that job with a social post. I get it.
The high-level on this issue is that you shouldn’t post stuff on social media that you wouldn’t want your employer to see. That’s really the baseline. Weirdly, some people post LinkedIn stuff that their employer probably wouldn’t like. I am sometimes guilty of that, as well.
But there is a “free speech” issue, of course, and I guess “free speech” is currently owned by (checks notes) the right-leaning ideology, mostly because Elon owns Twitter/X, which he (checks notes) bought with money partially raised by Diddy. Oh. OK.
I personally am kind of libertarian on free speech and think people should post whatever they/want feel so long as it doesn’t expose secrets or harm a group of people. I think if April wanted to post this rant on TikTok, she’s…
