Thursday, November 21, 2019

How an NPR editor, and his daughter Ramona, turned a work fail into a win

How an NPR editor, and his daughter Ramona, turned a work fail into a winHow an NPR editor, and his daughter Ramona, turned a work fail into a winThere are many horror stories of employees airing personal opinions on their employers public social media accounts. There are executives publicly tweeting about private acquisitions and companies with social media handles that arelive-tweeting mass firings. No employer is immune, notlage even those at the highest levels of power. A Justice Department staffer in charge of the government agencys official Twitter handle once posted a tweet calling out CNN for being the biggest troll of them all lmao. The U.S. government then had to issue a press statement that the tweet was intended for a personal account and that the staffer had had their access revoked.A recent story, however, ends happilyOn Monday, NPR editor Christopher Dean Hopkins accidentally used NPRs Facebook account to tell the media organizations audience about his baby Ramonas adv entures.Hopkins quickly issued an apology, but by then the people were clamoring for more. Baby Ramona became Ramona.There was even a Change.org petitionwith more than 800 signatures to give the NPR staffer in charge of this moment of errant serendipity a raise. NPR later clarified in a story of their own that Ramona was in fact a baby, not a cat, as some had assumed.Ramona is a reminder for employees to always, always double-check what which social media account youre using before posting.You may not have the good fortune, as Hopkins had, to share a heartwarming story about a baby who loves cats.

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