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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Guild Wars 2 Writer Fired Over being a complete idiot on twitter, Gaming "press" defends her xD

Raven722 on 08 July 2018
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
It looks like the company wanted her gone anyway and took this as a good enough reason to do it. The tweets are dumb, mean-spirited and pointless but likely not enough to fire someone over.

Some comments in the Eurogamer article about this mentioned that she was a bit of a bitch at conventions too. A few people shared your sentiment. That ArenaNet already wasn't pleased with her and wanted her gone. Pete Fries was unfortunate collateral damage. Though I will say this, if you've been with a company for almost 13 years you should probably know better than to pick that hill to die on for someone who hadn't even been with the company for two years. She was openly insulting not only the community but a YouTube partner as well. Publicly defending her actions means you condoned her language towards their customers and partners. Leave that to the head of a company to decide to do. You stuck your ass in that fire and got burned.



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JRPGfan on 08 July 2018
Aura7541 said:
Jessica Price also celebrated Total Biscuit's death, so yeah. Fantastic person.

ohhhh so she was that person....



JRPGfan on 08 July 2018
Aura7541 said:
Here's Deroir's (the person who Jessica Price lashed out against) side of the story for those who are interested. It starts at around the 4:00 mark.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/281487892

Watched from 3m to 14m+......

Yeah he seems nice enough,... also a dane :)



Raviel on 08 July 2018

I'm all for anyone having their opinion openly on the internet without worrying about loosing their job but I was thinking more like having controversial political beliefs but personal attacks on fans, calling out sexism where there is none or celebrating someones death... I'd might fire her too



Kaneman! on 08 July 2018

Deserved firing.



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Stefan.De.Machtige on 08 July 2018
Raven722 said:
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
It looks like the company wanted her gone anyway and took this as a good enough reason to do it. The tweets are dumb, mean-spirited and pointless but likely not enough to fire someone over.

Some comments in the Eurogamer article about this mentioned that she was a bit of a bitch at conventions too. A few people shared your sentiment. That ArenaNet already wasn't pleased with her and wanted her gone. Pete Fries was unfortunate collateral damage. Though I will say this, if you've been with a company for almost 13 years you should probably know better than to pick that hill to die on for someone who hadn't even been with the company for two years. She was openly insulting not only the community but a YouTube partner as well. Publicly defending her actions means you condoned her language towards their customers and partners. Leave that to the head of a company to decide to do. You stuck your ass in that fire and got burned.

It's likely that Pete Fries was connected to the negative feelings regarding her in the company itself. It would not be surprising that an online ally would also have been an ally in the company itself. In any case, she brought it on herself.



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COKTOE on 08 July 2018

Aside from this most recent event, and her mocking the recently deceased, she seems so lovely. I can't imagine there being any turmoil at the workplace that would further galvanize the decision to terminate her.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

Sordel on 08 July 2018

She should have been sacked for the Totalbiscuit comment; my guess is that it put her on final warning. However much she loathed TB she should have had enough empathy to remember that she was likely to upset many people who loved or liked him, including his widow, his stepson, his parents, many industry onlookers with large followings and thousands of ordinary fans.



PwerlvlAmy on 08 July 2018
jason1637 said:
Raven722 said:

As stated above by myself and others, nothing TB did was worth being happy he was dead. Certainly not publicly showing it. The worst thing he ever did was tell someone to go die of cancer quite a few years ago because they were trolling him. Which he apologized for many times over. He was accused of supporting harassment, and some tried to say he organized it, but that was because he supported people and ideas that went against left-leaning ideals in the gaming industry. Not because he ACTUALLY did any of those things or encouraged them. Osama bin Laden lead an actual terrorist organization that killed thousands of innocent people. Someone like that, yeah. Mock their death. Mocking the death of someone who didn't agree with man-hating garbage? Not so much.

I have quite a few family members that died from cancer and wishing that upon somebody is such a piece of shit thing to do. He probably apologized because he got called out on it. Shitty peoplw like him are better of dead.

Alrighty Jason. We get you don't like him and that's perfectly fine. But can we please refrain from this type of talk now please? Thank you. 



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Mummelmann on 08 July 2018

In this day and age, there is no way she'd get fired without really solid grounds, there's likely a lot more to this than we know. I'm surprised she hasn't accused her former employer of sexism as well, the fact that she hasn't probably says a lot. Like someone else mentioned; it could be that the company have been wanting to sack her for some time, which woudn't be shocking if she anywhere near the same attitude in the workplace. Snarky, entitled colleagues are not fun to work with at all.