The Rockets fired their social media manager today

Lol. I had to cover my face at work to prevent people from seeing that I'm cracking up. :grin:

 

^^^Ughh...sounds like the horse is leaning towards microfracture

 

No.

Morey's tweet had Morey's name on it. It was MOREY'S tweet.

The one we are all talking about didn't say 'Some guy named Chad'. It said Houston Rockets on it.

THAT is what people are not understanding. If it had just been some tweet by some guy named Chad, nobody would have noticed or cared.

But that tweet wasn't sent by some guy, it was sent by THE HOUSTON ROCKETS.

And in that context, it HAD to be professional, it HAD to be exemplary, it HAD to be gracious and classy. But it was the exact opposite of those things. And because of that, it made THE HOUSTON ROCKETS look extremely bad.

As others have said, heads roll when that sort of thing happens.

 

Meh, I can see why they fired him: a social media manager should know better than to click "send" on something like that. It'd be a totally different story if this was just some fan or even sportscaster account. But the official Rockets Twitter feed?

What bothers me more is that, instead of talking about the Rockets taking out the Mavs, everybody's talking about some stupid tweet.

 

A subgroup being offended is generally enough lol. I don't think offensive things require a majority of the whole population to agree that they were personally offended.

Oh and animal lovers would be offended too of course

 

Heads didnt roll, when clyde made his comment, while working for the Houston Rockets.

Heads only roll, when you're the guy no one knows.

 

Spoiler

Shhhhh Just close your eyes. It will all be over soon.

 

I get this move and I'm not going to sit here complaining about it. Part of the job responsibility of a professional corporate social media guy is to not piss people off and he failed.

But boy, this does make me sad about where we're at as a society that people hated that silly little mildly dark joke so much that they tried to get a guy's livelihood terminated.

 

That's fine. However, you still haven't supported your argument for why making THIS tweet on THIS account should get him fired. What is "professional," "exemplary," "gracious," or "classy?"

 

You seriously don't see the difference? 'Working for' and 'BEING' are not equivalent.

If the HOUSTON ROCKETS put out some kind of press release announcing that beating a certain opponent was 'just like clubbing baby seals', then YES, someone would have been on the chopping block for that.

But it was just Clyde.

Again, if the tweet was just 'by some guy who worked for the Rockets', it would have been barely a stir. But it was FROM *THE HOUSTON ROCKETS*.

Anyone who still doesn't understand the distinction, and why the HOUSTON ROCKETS could not allow themselves to be associated with such a tweet, in such poor taste and so unprofessional, well, they're just being willfully ignorant at this point.

 

Mavs fans are some of the poorest losers I've ever encountered, especially for such a largely subpar franchise historically.

 

LOL Clutch - the famous Mr. Ed.

DD

 

His position was a PROFESSIONAL one.

If you don't know what those words mean, try dictionary.com .

 

Clyde is and was an employee of the Rockets. He represents the organization every bit as much as a social media manager with a twitter account.

 

Lol at the hate the new Rockets tweets are getting

 

So Mark Cuban makes it clear he's signing Chandler Parsons away just to screw around with the Rockets, then tweets a pic of him and Parsons in a club signing the contract, then his team creates a borderline homoerotic rap video where Parsons says he "left Houston so easily", then Parsons says how dirty of a city Houston is compared to Houston (which is HILARIOUSLY untrue if you've been to both), Cuban continues to constantly run his mouth unprompted about how Daryl Morey just goes after stars and doesn't care about chemistry, then again before the playoff series about the same, with the added bonus of how predictable the Rockets are and how they "just aren't a very good team."

THEN - the Rockets drop the Mavericks in five, and the guy who runs the Rockets twitter feed posts a gun emoji aiming at a cute little horsey emoji and the words "Just close your eyes. It will all be over soon." And apparently, that makes the Rockets... not classy.

First of all, the Mavericks owner can't get the name of the Rockets and our general manager out of his mouth. If he was fined every time he took a shot at us, our ownership or our management, he wouldn't be millionaire Mark Cuban anymore. He'd be "work at Wendy's to try and save up for the next Call of Duty" Mark Cuban. Secondly, I've never heard so many supposedly grown men use the word "emoji" in my entire life, let alone be offended by the cute little cartoons on a twitter post.

So to Dallas fans, once and for all, you've officially jumped the shark. Your opinions aren't even coherent enough to be respected anymore. You know what makes us classy? We apologize to grown men sucking their thumbs with a sad clown look on their faces so that they'll feel better, even though any Texas man worth his salt wouldn't be remotely fazed by such nonsense. I've seen less classy things in church bulletins, you bunch of pansies.

 

Professional means "of, relating to, or connected with a profession."

Explain to me how his tweet is antithetical to the above definition - which is your claim. Words have meaning, and if you're going to use them as your argument, then you better be able to rationalize your position.

 

I liked the tweet.

 

So there shouldn't be anything amusing on the account? (which there has countless times)
When you start down the road of amusing, funny, or cute, where do you draw the line? Wherever you cross the line, he just edged over it. The text he wrote without the emojis would be, IMO, a whole lot worse.... Text makes it seem like rape, but the emojis quite clearly change the tone to putting down a lame horse.

Text only = way over line and justifiable with termination.
Text + emojis = Touching the line and deserving of reprimand and or apology(which he did)

 

The Texans should fire theirs and hire this one