Waterstones come out as GC and fire TRA for social media post

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Fantsatstic news, Christina Dalcher has sucessfully managed to get this TRA fired from their job at Waterstones for X comment.

https://x.com/TillyLovesBooks/status/1810337926850445453?t=WABH0ieBQdnUtaQL5FVlyQ&s=19

Great news!

Brilliant!

My goodness, that clip..."poor little me" at its finest with a side order of "I'm bloody great, I am" and a "give me cash" topping. Wow.

I'm not generally a fan of folk losing their jobs for things they say on social media but "play stupid games, win stupid prizes"...

She f**cked about and she found out! 🤣🤣🤣

I can't see Rina's original tweet, can anyone transcribe?

I wonder if they are basing that decision on WORIAD.

This. Absolutely terrible acting.

Also, you don't get a new job by putting a "woe is me" message on Twitter, slagging off your former employer and publicising the fact that you were sacked.

You get one by updating your CV and actually applying for stuff.

Oh shes proper upset isn’t she, but she should really have thought it through. Most unprofessional

is the author the person who wrote vox?

if she is I dunno why weepy waterstones lady is slagging her off for not being well known

"People should see the impact their actions have on others"
Like the impact you wanted to have on others?

"because of the actions of a really hatefull person" yep you. You did this.

The hypocrisy and lack of self awareness is off the charts. Perhaps some time to reflect will benefit her. There seems to be a lot of measuring comparing language in that woe is me. Upset the author had enough sway, guessing how many followers the author had, comparing that to how many books she thinks she's sold. Seems very mercenary and bean county in determining a person's worth. Judge not lest ye be judged too.

Every tiny step towards reality is a blessing. Well done Waterstones.

Oh great! I'm a big fan of waterstones. Went there today.

Am I being a bit thick? What has weepy Waterstones woman done (yes I am assuming her gender) - is she the same person as ‘Rina’? If not, why has she been sacked?

We shouldn't worry about her for too long, she's looking for work in the Brightness n area so she will be embraced by non-bigoted bookselling folkx.

precision matters.

i fail to see how this is waterstones being gc. This is a company saying that employees who openly post about letting political views bias their work responsibilities are a problem.

It could work in any direction and if the company has any real ethics and cares about profitability, it should.

we are all entitled to our opinions. That does not mean we are entitled to let our opinions damage the quality of our work. There is a difference.

@IsadoraBathrobe I was wondering the same thing. What did weepy woman actually do? Her twitter handle is not visible on the screenshots.

Looks like she said she was going to rip up books.

Always check your company's social media policy (and yes, I am wearing my smug face)

It's about time some of these nasty little bullies got a taste of their own medicine. How on earth did she think this was going to play out?

Good on Waterstones.

Looks like she said she was going to rip up books

well even the little bit of sympathy i had has dissipated now 😳

So - did she tweet that she was going to go to work and throw away the products that were to be sold?
And she thinks it's someone else's fault that Waterstones took issue with this?

Leaving aside any GC/trans arguments, whatever you think of the woman or the author, that was quite obviously a very stupid thing to tweet.

What a prat.

That's it, I have nothing more to say

😱 rip up books!! And she calls herself a book lover??

Yes - if she had written “I think that people who are gender critical are stinky poo poos” then she probably would have been fine. But you can’t imply that Waterstones thinks that it is ok to rip up a book of someone who has a completely legally held belief.

Sorry but you’re celebrating a trans phobic author getting someone fired for calling her out on her hate?!

Those are fake tears. My three year old could pretend better than that 🙄

So she threatened to throw away books by an author and then wonders why that person complained. Even my three year old understood consequences. She really doesn't have any brain cells, does she.

No

Personally I'm not celebrating it. But equally it's not ok to tell authors you're going to rip up and bin their books because you don't like the content. That's grim censorship and it's good that Waterstones have some reasonable standards and policies in place. I wouldn't stand for GC publishers ripping up trans activists books either for what it's worth. In fact the more people see of that silly ideology the better.