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Max King of the Wild on 11 April 2013
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binary solo said:
sales2099 said:
binary solo said:
No sympathy for the guy really. He was trolling.

If people haven't learned that Twitter is a public forum then they are idiots and even if it was meant as some private trolling. If you don't want it to be a headline don't put it on Twitter.

If he did put that stuff on Twitter knowing it would get out into the public then he's purposely trolling the Xbox fans, which if there's a sackable offence at MS for public stupidity it would be to troll the people who are a revenue source. If he was trolling Sony or PS4 or Wii U he would have got a promotion. People gotta know you don't shit in your own nest.

If he was pushed, it had nothing to do with getting fanboys in a lather and everything to do with potentially costing MS some revenue.

Ya.....trolling should get a guy fired and his family essentially ruined. Good call on judgement.

This just shows that gaming execs cant say anything thats not an official press release, and the official statements will HAVE to be obscure, and worded precisely, because we have thousands of people with nothing better to do then dissect every word, travel to the far reaches of the internet, just to find something to rage about next.

Now you're catching on. The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club. And yes, when a product has not been officially announce you absolutely don't talk out of school and you absolutely don't talk about a specific rumoured feature. And worse yet is trolling those who you hope to be customers. So he committed 3 corporate sins: talking publicly indirectly about Durango outside of official channels; implicit confirmation that a rumoured feature is a real thing, a feature that could get some people a bit pissed off so, if it is true the PR around it needs to be carefully managed, if the feature is not true then the fact he implied it was a thing is incomprehensible; trolling your customer base.

Get it right man, it's not simply trolling. Trolling your competition on Twitter = good, trolling your customer base on Twitter = bad. This isn't even employee 101 because it should be basic common sense. It's so basic there's even a cliche to go with it: don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Do I rejoice that he lost his job? absolutely not. After all I was unlikely to be Durango buyer so I have no reason to either be angry at the guy for what he did. And I don't know him so I can't either like or dislike him.

Do I think there were reasonable grounds for him to lose his job? Yes. Why do I think that? Because if I did a similar thing: going onto Twitter and trolling those who are our customer base; and talking about a not officially announced project outside of the official comms plan (and they will definitely 100% have a comms plan about Durango), and a specific, potentially controversial element of that project, which may more may not exist, I would absolutely 100% get sacked. I wouldn't be asked to resign, I wouldn't be given a chance to exit of my own accord. I'd be dragged in front of my director, given a massive bollocking and be shown the door. End of story.



Most jobs I know of have an armed guard escort you to the door or even car. Your job is nice that they just show you the door.