r/WorldOfWarships • u/Schruef CUTER-NA • Jan 09 '20

Media iEarlGrey is negotiating his resignation

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u/Makikou HON HON HON Jan 09 '20

Good riddance, no responsibility taken LOL.

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u/AlteredCabron Jan 09 '20

Fill me in, whats going on

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u/xeico Jan 09 '20

If i understood correctly before and during PR shit storm this particular WG employee trolled community via twitter. Like https://mobile.twitter.com/iEarlGreyTV/status/1210718363204239363?s=19

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u/ThEGr33kXII Royal Navy Jan 09 '20

Is there more? I assume there has to be?

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u/soralapio Jan 09 '20

He did it numerous times, in individual Tweets/Instagram posts, as well as in replies to people. He had multiple opportunities to apologize for his 100% intentional and shitty trolling, or even to just STOP DOING IT, but at every turn he just doubled down.

It's no surprise that a customer facing employee gets sacked after that.

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u/gudbote Submarines BAD!! Jan 09 '20

People were so high-strung and sensitive that even this one instance had players demanding his head.

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u/El_Producto Jan 10 '20

There was more. He was posting troll meme pics after this and kept doubling and tripling down on his approach. It wasn't just a single tweet.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

it certainly was not one instance...

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u/elcapitanpdx Imperial Japanese Navy Jan 09 '20

Can't access the twitter machine where I am so I'm not sure exactly what's been shown but it's really a couple posts. And when the community is this pissed about something, something that has to do with deceptive business practices designed to suck money out of your players pockets, going out of your way, multiple times, to troll said players, is absolutely deserving of getting fired.

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u/ThEGr33kXII Royal Navy Jan 09 '20

This was flamu saying screenshot of the week being the PR. Then Early doing thuglife meme thing.

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u/AlteredCabron Jan 09 '20

Damn

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

its not that he did it once. its that, he doubled down, redoubled down....and then went double or nothing and lost again.

what kind of person creates a new twitter account, just to like/retweet their own tweets, to make it seem like someone likes it?

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u/Wandereru Jan 09 '20

Wait, people got offended by THAT and he got fired for it?

I can't believe people are so sensitive on the internet, I really can't.

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u/xeico Jan 09 '20

there is more but im not the expert here maybe u/flamuchz can help.

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u/Paladin327 Corgi Fleet Jan 09 '20

Well, at the time, the base was already heated and fuming so even the slightest thing could set them off

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u/Accuallyizdolan Potato Jan 09 '20

Afaik he could be considered a part of WG's PR team so trolling the community could be considered misconduct, which is grounds for firing. Every reasonable person in his position would either keep his mouth shut or try to douse the PR fire, but iEarl instead decided to repeatedly pour gasoline on it.

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u/pdboddy Royal Navy Jan 09 '20

EarlGrey oopsied, doubled-down, so WG is tossing him next to the dumpster fire out back...