HMV workers take over
official Twitter feed to vent fury over sacking
Employees of HMV took over the
company's official Twitter account to express their dissatisfaction of being
sacked. One or more angry employees used
Twitter to vent their anger, they managed to post seven subversive messages
before the company regained control of the account and deleted the posts. The
employees were quick enough to get a brief explanation of their protest on to
the site before it was removed. One of the Tweets included "Under usual
circumstances, we'd never dare do such a thing as this," they said.
"However, when the company you dearly love is being ruined … and those
hard working individuals, who wanted to make hmv great again, have mostly been fired,
there seemed no other choice."They also went on to claim that the official
HMV account had been set up by an unpaid intern two years ago. HMV's administrators
declined to comment on the tweets, but did confirm that 190 redundancies had
been made. They said there had been no redundancies in its retail network, adding
that all its stores remained open and were still trading. Nick Edwards, a joint
administrator, said the administrators remained hopeful that they would be able
to "secure a future for a restructured business".
MY OPINION: Some would argue that
this is ethically wrong and the employees had no right to conduct this sort of
behaviour. It goes to show how institutions are beginning to lose their power relative
to the power of pluralism. It shows the society is becoming more pluralists as
they are beginning to fight back against those in power.
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