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2741672, RE: So I’m friends with the writer who was fired this week
Posted by jimaveli, Mon Jun-28-21 09:59 AM
>What a stupid “controversy.” It’s been public knowledge
>that Vince likes to hire non-wrestling fan writers to bring in
>an outside perspective. She jokes about it a little bit on a
>podcast, it gets blown out of proportion, and a pile of morons
>harass her all over social media cause she doesn’t know as
>much about the thing they love as they do. She was somehow
>blamed for “ruining Raw” a show she worked on for just a
>couple weeks and hasn’t been good in years. Now she’s out
>of a job for some pretty tame comments. Plus, no one stopped
>to consider how bad it looked for a bunch of mostly white guys
>to be yelling at a Black woman for simply getting a name wrong
>(and then correcting it!). She was clearly in the middle of
>doing research about her new job, cut her some slack.
>
>Even if you think it’s a bad hiring strategy to hire
>outsiders, that ain’t her fault and she deserves a chance to
>prove everyone wrong. But hey, just like all the other writers
>who were fired too early, she’ll land on her feet. She’s
>very talented and funny and I’m sure she’ll have some
>(better) job offers lined up before too long. I’m just
>really disappointed in wrestling fans this week. I hope I
>don’t have to say this to anyone here, but before you join
>social media pile-ons, please stop to consider what you’re
>doing for a few seconds.

I've been calling it the culture of complaining. Restated, we're at the point now where we have so many choices and options, maybe too many. And, at least to me, people's appreciation for the efforts of others is dwindling daily. Looking at the wrong places online, you'd think that nobody likes anything or anybody. And the pitchforks don't ever seem to be too far away from pretty much anybody. And it can be any reason imaginable.

Zooming into this, my complaints about complaining apply. If you are valuable and you do a good job at a place, you shouldn't be one not horrible comment away from being tossed out. I'm of the opinion that she should have kept that tidbit to herself OR maybe she could've worded it better, but getting fired? That's obviously ridiculous. This is a bad thing.

And at least some of the crying and moaning folks should see this firing, wonder if they're doing this whole innanet thing correctly, and maybe fight FOR somebody for once instead of constantly being on a case to fight AGAINST something.

But shit...Braun Strowman is allegedly the exact thing Vince wants most and they let him go out of nowhere, so clearly no one outside of Reigns should feel too safe.