5 of The Most Scandalous Tweets That Got People Fired

People proving that some things are best kept to themselves.

Published 9 years ago in Facepalm

People proving that some things are best kept to themselves... If they want to keep their job.

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Cameron Jankowski's joke backfired at him very fast. In 2012 he posted a picture on Twitter that allegedly showed him urinating on food. Taco Bell didn't find it funny and let him go.

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Justine Sacco worked as a public relations specialist for InterActive Corp. Until she posted her inappropriate status. Sacoo's tweet caused a huge reaction from public and the screenshot of it became viral. Soon after that she got fired.

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"Congrats to all the dirty mexicans in San Antonio." was a comment that ended Mike Bacsik's career. He made it on Twitter following a game between the Mavericks and the Spurs. The former Major League Baseball pitcher got fired from his radio producer job afterwards.
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Putting risqué pictures of herself on her Twitter account as well as claims that she smoked pot on the premises of the school she worked in is what made the high school math teacher Carly McKinney fired. The story hit the local news and her Twitter account went viral. Despite protests from her students, she was done at that school.

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Voula Papachristou, a Greek Olympic Gymnast was banned from the Olympics for her racist tweet about Africans in Greece. An innocent looking young girl and author of one of the most racist tweets in the history of Twitter, Voula proved that you could get fired from being an Olympic sportswoman.

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Some Commuters Have A Tough Life

Cities from around the world where commuting is not an easy task.

By Mr_Incognito

Published 9 years ago in Wow

These photos show cities from around the world where commuting is not a simple or easy task.

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The security checks during rush hour in Beijing make for insanely long lines. The checks have been tightened due to an attack in China's Xinjiang region, where dozens were killed on May 22.

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Getting home from work in Beijing is a bit of a zoo, too.
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Beijing is also in the middle of a pollution crisis, forcing commuters to wade through thick smog on the way to work.

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Getting to work got harder in Bangkok this Spring, given that the Thai army declared martial law and stationed soldiers in main intersections.
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Being a pedestrian in Tokyo means having a lot of company.
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Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo is one of the world's busiest pedestrian intersections. Traffic lights go red all at once, so up to 2,500 people try to cross at the same time.

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In Jakarta, Indonesia, the front of the train is fair game, too.
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Heavy rains have flooded the Indian city of Guwahati. Yet people still have to get to work.
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It's hard to imagine being stuck in this Mumbai commuter train.

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Getting to work in the Ukraine was a martial situation earlier this year. Notice the tanks ready to be shipped out by rail.
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Getting on the train in Colombo, Sri Lanka's largest city, requires some patience.
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At 21 million people, Lagos has become Africa's largest city. It was only 1.4 million in 1970, so as you might imagine, traffic is a nightmare.

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Heavy rain didn't deter these men in Karachi, Pakistan, seen riding on the outside of a bus.
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Trains in Indonesia's West Java province, where just 300 cars serve 500,000 commuters each day.
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Commuters were stranded after a 2009 typhoon washed out a chunk of a Philippines highway north of Manila.

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There are more than 37 million motorbikes in Vietnam, so rush hour in Ho Chi Minh City is a blur.
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A lack of infrastructure makes commuting in Mbare, Zimbabwe, an ordeal done in darkness.
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The congestion in Cairo, Egypt, gets so deadlocked that you can't tell where the traffic ends and the market begins.

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A May bus driver strike in Sao Paulo, Brazil, made the morning commute even more congested than usual here are the human-laden escalators in one subway station.
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Sao Paulo is home to some of the world's biggest traffic jams, and its subway stations are a bit overcrowded.
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At peak times, New York City's Grand Central Terminal gets pretty crazy.

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A winter snowstorm brought afternoon traffic to a standstill for hours in Calgary.
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In the Netherlands, about 25 percent of all commutes are made by bicycle. This means that bike parking in Amsterdam gets pretty creative.
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Los Angeles motorists suffer from the worst traffic in the US, logging 90 hours a year behind the wheel.

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Thousands of people commute to work in Bangladesh by boat. Here, residents of Dhaka take out their umbrellas during shower.
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Many Londoners trek across the London Bridge as part of their commute, especially if they work in the financial sector headquartered in the City of London.
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The trip to work for Google employees was interrupted by protestors on April Fools Day, who claimed that an influx of tech workers were driving up San Francisco housing prices.