Congressional Aide Devastates her career on Social Media

December 8, 2014
 
 

 

Elizabeth Lauten has change into the poster kid for dumb social media posts. There’s indubitably that any other younger skilled will quickly change her within the corner sporting the iDunce cap. but, for the time being, we’ve the chance to study from her all too regretful example. right here’s the story, in case you neglected it… unless just a few weeks in the past, Elizabeth Lauten was once the communication director for Tennessee Congressional representative Steven Fincher. Now she is unemployed. From promising profession and plumb job with lots of upward mobility to pariah in not up to forty eight hours. It’s a tough lesson within the occasionally unfair scales of justice in the world of public family members. not going to publish the whole lot of the content right here, but the gist of the story is that this: Lauten determined on the spur of the moment to tell the primary Daughters they need to have “just a little class” but almost definitely didn’t know any better, given who their parents are.

 

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fail to remember for a second that their parents are the President and First lady, who by their very positions, have extra category than most other folks. one of these digital verbal diarrhea has nothing to do with common sense. It’s all about the ‘internet’s capability to reveal the worst a part of our souls at a second’s discover. What was once fleeting ideas that may or would possibly not change into tasteless one-liners shared with chums are actually everlasting condemnations ceaselessly haunting the halls of the net. Apologies don’t topic, and it doesn’t matter that almost all other people have mentioned worse issues in worse ways off the top of our heads when among the security of chums. this is all about context. A silly commentary played for laughs at a bar might get some eye rolls in that context or even a few disgruntled harrumphs. but on-line? endless dialogue, debate and judgment. You merely can not have enough money to make these errors. but individuals nonetheless do it at all times. Even the CFO of Twitter just isn’t immune to “send” error. So, the question right here is just not “who is the real Elizabeth Lauten?” The judgmental harpy or the good Christian girl? It’s now not even supposing and when this mistake will ever go away. ultimately, it’ll…and simplest then will somebody be able to measure the damage from a non permanent lapse of judgment. The lesson? Don’t let it occur to you. unfortunately, statistics inform us, anyone studying this is most probably about to make the same mistake the usage of social media again.

 

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