Adam Orth Resigns Following Always-Online Twitter Comments
- Thread starter Steven Bogos
- Start date
Definitely. If it wasn't true, even in the slightest most arbitrarily nitpicky of manners, I would expect Microsoft to come out guns-a-blazin' to refute the rumours of the Nextbox being always-online. I think it's a safe bet their silence confirms it's going to be a DRM monster-child.GAunderrated said:
Anyhow, normally I feel bad for people who lose their jobs over stuff like this, but corporate executives justify their huge pay over normal employees with their claims of always being on the clock. They're salarymen after all! Not lowly plebs. So by their own rationale they don't get to claim they weren't representing their company when something happened, regardless of where/when.
Mr.K. said:
I don't think Mr.K. was being serious.ScruffyMcBalls said:
Yes, they very well COULD HAVE pressured him into resigning. It's PR spin, nothing more. He was "let go". However it's spun doesn't change the fact.
I would hope that any plans to make the console always online got reconsidered with this backlash.
Oh and fuck that guy. It's too easy to be ungrateful for what you have.
Oh and fuck that guy. It's too easy to be ungrateful for what you have.
And there be a lesson for dumb people everywhere. If you want to privately joke about with a friend, don't do it in a open for the world to see. For those who think this is harsh are too young tp remember the name Gerald Ratner. A head of a major jewlary bussiness famous for cheap affordable jewlary who. They had shops everywhere, he was a millionare and everything was very, very good. Then at a bussiness dinner for all the major heads of the city he said a little joke "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray that your butler can serve you drinks on, all for £4.95. People say, "How can you sell this for such a low price?", I say, "because it's total crap.". The company's stock went into free fall, the press lead with the headlines "leading jewlars says "we sell crap!"" And he lost everything.. Top of the world to the gutter in less then 7 days coz he didn't think what he said. Do I have any sympathy for Orth? Not a bit.
Yes, I'm sure he resigned much like I did; 'Resign or be fired'. But still, I can't say this isn't a positive thing for Microsoft. Joke or not, anything in regards to their new console would not be taken lightly.
Street justice served on a cold platter. I can't say i feel bad. Even though I don't play on consoles I understand this is crunch time for Xbox a Playstation. This is the time consumers are making decisions about which console they are going to purchase and any bad PR, especially when it come to always on DRM, will greatly effect consumer decisions.
He may have voluntarily resigned after receiving the PR department's internal memo stapled to the decapitated horse's head in his bed.
Out of a job? Well luckily Jim Sterling has the perfect response.
Note: I have no idea whether or not Jim endorses this man's firing, but the Deal With It is too perfect.
Also, this is yet another case of someone not being aware of the consequences of saying shit on social media, private joke between people or not.
Note: I have no idea whether or not Jim endorses this man's firing, but the Deal With It is too perfect.
Also, this is yet another case of someone not being aware of the consequences of saying shit on social media, private joke between people or not.
I don't think he was let go because of the deal with it comment or even his "verification" of the Xbox being always online. It was the asshat comment of "Why would I want to live in a place like that" where he is just a giant snob that just put down the people with lower incomes or those that like living in more rural areas.
captcha: face the music
too true
captcha: face the music
too true
Ok, this really made me crack upCriticKitten said:
Also, why is it so hard for these twitter twats to just put a "/sarcasm" tag at the end of their posts?
Well, Mr. Orth, you can consider the entire affair #DealtWith.
If only the lesson he and all his ilk took away from this was "don't be an asshat".
If only the lesson he and all his ilk took away from this was "don't be an asshat".
Who'd have guessed being an enormous ass to your employer's entire consumer base at once would be a firing offense?
#everybody.ever
Why has nobody tried just throwing in #jk or something? He might still have a job if he'd had the foresight to #trolling.
...I'm gonna have to remember that one; might come in handy (if I every decide to start using twitter)
#everybody.ever
Know what? That is a brilliant idea!Nowhere Man said:
Why has nobody tried just throwing in #jk or something? He might still have a job if he'd had the foresight to #trolling.
...I'm gonna have to remember that one; might come in handy (if I every decide to start using twitter)
Hell yeah, I fucking called it.
Not really happy he got fired, but I was convinced when the whole Twitter thing blew up that he wasn't going to walk away from it unscathed. Just another reason that company executives should leave all public releases to the PR department.
Cautionary tale indeed.
Not really happy he got fired, but I was convinced when the whole Twitter thing blew up that he wasn't going to walk away from it unscathed. Just another reason that company executives should leave all public releases to the PR department.
Cautionary tale indeed.