We ’ve all heardhorror storiesabout people getting into live water supply at workplace over their social medium use . That being said – if you found out you ’d just got your dream line of work , you ’d be pretty excited , ripe ?
Last workweek , one twitterer discover out she had win an internship at NASA . Understandably overjoyed , she assume to societal medium to announce her good news . And , because this was Twitter , she did so using the proper syntax and vocabulary of the riddle culture .
In other Word , she tweeted this :
Not everybody who see this 61 - character solemnisation shared her uninhibited exuberance , however . One commenter , apparently bowl over by the tweet ’s R - rated ecphonesis , sent a one - Logos answer : " Language . "
Unimpressed , the imminent interne fritter back a middling crude reply .
Wait , what does that say ?
Homer Hickam iskind of a braggy mickle . A NASA aeronautic engineer for nigh two decade , Homer ’s the cat who literally trained astronauts for spacewalks . His resume includes theHubble Space Telescopedeployment , the joint US - Japanese missionSpacelab - J , and a little project you might have get a line of calledthe International Space Station .
But if you did n’t recognize his name , he ’s well-chosen to acquaint himself .
Yes , in a scene pulled directly from your nightmares , the jubilant poster had unwittingly tweet obscenities at her brand - new boss .
The situation may still have been salvageable , however – had certain other twitizens not found the conversation . The thread exploded .
Some people scolded the shortly - to - be NASA employee for a want of professionalism , or derided her for on the face of it not knowing who she was talking to . Others felt that Hickam had acted inappropriately by publically " pulling social station " against an overexcited not - even - interne – pointing out that someone ’s language , professional or not , does n’t necessarily reflect anything about their engineering science accomplishment .
And some , on both side , started alerting official NASA report to the conversation .
After gobs of the great unwashed bombard the conversation with ugly , vicious , or just homely ill-bred messages towards Hickam , it came to light that the now - ill-famed internship had been revoked .
Depending on your point of scene , you probably either consider this is an immoderately harsh penalization against an worked up ingénue wander by on-line saboteurs , or a predictable result for someone who should have have a go at it better how to acquit around her employers . Either way , it seems like a meet remnant to a dramatic story .
But it ’s not over yet .
On August 21 , Hickam publisheda web log postclearing up some of the mental confusion surround the situation .
And for those of you disturbed about the original tweeter ’s future career plan , Hickam has proven there ’s hope even for the most impulsive of social medium users .
" After talking to her and look at her resume , I am sure she deserve a position in the aerospace industry and I ’m doing all I can to assure her one that will be better than she lost , " he wrote . " I have also … made dead certain that there will be no mordant mark on her record . [ NASA ] have severalize me she may reapply . "
