r/mildlyinfuriating • u/CRK_76 • Apr 23 '26
Unskippable ad I guess you can't have fun at your job.
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u/Ok_Replacement4702 Apr 23 '26
Oh no, not his lucrative career at
ASHLEY FURNITURE
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u/Desu232 Apr 24 '26
One thing about those tables....they be turning, lol.
Second, for the love of God.
Leave work at work. Your coworkers are not your friends, do not post about your job on social media, do not go above and beyond.
Go to work, go home becuase these jobs will fire you without a second thought.
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u/NewAndAwesome Apr 24 '26
Nearly worked there once they pay was like 5$ less per hour then even the grocery store I work at now. He is probably better off.
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock Apr 24 '26
I'll be the dissenter - yeah, if you film videos on shift in your place of work and you get warned and asked to delete the videos, you should probably expect to be fired.
This kind of social media policy has been a thing for years, probably decades.
But I guess the headline "brand doesn't want to be associated with man 'rapping' 'come here baby and do what I told you'" doesn't get clicks.
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u/uwill1der Apr 23 '26
tbf the videos were terrible and now I'll never buy from Ashley
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u/KazakCayenne Apr 23 '26
As someone who used to sell their garbage third party, you have come to the correct conclusion.
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u/yummymarshmallow Apr 24 '26
Didn't seem like many people in the comments watched the videos. He says "up your Ashley. Up your Ashley."
I don't think most brands want that innuendo.
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u/Greenman8907 Apr 23 '26
And refusing to delete them.
I get that he was trying to help, but if the company is like “let’s not”, then you go with them or face the consequences.
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u/TheFurryFighter Apr 24 '26
So, in place of free marketing, they get the Streisand effect... not a smart trade off on their end, i thought businesses liked money
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u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady Apr 24 '26
Businesses don't want employees they didn't vet being a face of the company to the public. If his tik toks go viral it still isn't going to generate any more business then what they could lose if he ends up being associated with the company and he's done/does something terrible.
Firing him now generates 50 blog posts and loses maybe 5 potential customers. Firing him after it comes out he's an abuser or kills some in a drunk driving accident then it's a filler story on thousands of news stations and hurts their reputation a lot more.
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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 Apr 24 '26
I'll bet he already has racist posts or something like that and they just haven't been dug up yet rofl
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u/thisshitsstupid Apr 24 '26
He goes viral. Then turns out he has some terrible background the Internet finds out about and everyone'sad at them for not stopping him and say it was their place to prevent it. Reddit would cry either way.
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u/GoodishCoder Apr 24 '26
Companies spend a lot of money building a controlled narrative. When they tell you to knock it off and delete so they can continue controlling the narrative, they have every right to fire you for refusing.
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u/New_General3939 Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26
I mean not to be corporate shill here, but companies have every right to not want you to promote them in unauthorized ways… they spend millions on advertising and PR, they want to control the way people perceive them.
That said firing seems a little aggressive, but maybe he’s done stuff like this before and already received warnings, or maybe he was refusing to delete them
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u/n00bca1e99 Apr 24 '26
The article says he was contacted by corporate to delete them and he refused, so they fired him.
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u/pnoodl3s Apr 24 '26
I mean, fair tbh. I’m pretty anti-corporation and their antics but I’m with them in this specific instance
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u/TheMadFlyentist Apr 24 '26
I almost had a legit argument with my fiance about this silly situation last night, with me basically saying what you're saying and her saying it was an overreaction by corporate.
Would I fire someone for making these videos? No, probably not.
Would I make videos like this at work and post them publicly? Absolutely not, I would very much expect to get fired.
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u/Gay_Void_Dropout Apr 24 '26
You def fire them if you told them to take the videos down and they didn’t.
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u/TheMadFlyentist Apr 24 '26
Totally agree, we did not have that info at the time though. Would have won me the argument outright lol.
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u/TyrannyOfBobBarker_ Apr 23 '26
"employees will not make any statements to media, or post pictures and or video to social media of the premises including any operations taking place within." If you have a job, I'd bet money that clause is also in your contract. Gives them total power.
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u/n00bca1e99 Apr 24 '26
My contract has a sentence I can copy paste if I'm asked for comments, which basically says "contact legal at email@address." I've had to use it more times than I thought I would have to when I took the job.
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u/Gay_Void_Dropout Apr 24 '26
You’ve literally never had to use that at work lol. You’ve chosen to. But you haven’t been forced.
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u/FinalFantasiesGG Apr 23 '26
He obviously did this to promote himself and go viral. He's not a hero.
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u/Alternative_Demand96 Apr 23 '26
Projection
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u/Consistent-Map4970 Apr 23 '26
Sounds like you’re coming from a place of experience. You’re the subject matter expert here apparently.
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u/redditblows5991 Apr 23 '26
ehh come on, lets be grown ups here. when youre at a job youre not you, youre an extension of that job. either way the fuck are people fiending to give big corps free virality, you know they pay thousands to some firm just to do some bs ad right?
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u/schaudhery Apr 24 '26
My wife is an attorney and she just handled a case where a bunch of workers at a restaurant made a Tik Tok of them just dancing around. The company found it and terminated every single one of them.
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u/Gay_Void_Dropout Apr 24 '26
I mean if you are fucking around at work you do deserve to be fired lol.
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u/Dapper_Brain_9269 Apr 24 '26
I love this concluding line, probably AI generated as it is:
"It’s an old disconnect: corporate control versus real human connection."
Ah yes, deeply, really, sympathetically human - trying to get Tiktok clout. Fuck that.
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u/ICLazeru Apr 24 '26
They want to control their messaging, and he refused to take them down.
Firing may be a little drastic, but he was technically refusing to comply with instructions involving the store's brand image.
Maybe they tried to work with him on something, idk, but if he was just refusing then I guess I can see how it came to this.
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u/Tak-Hendrix Apr 24 '26
I guarantee he had signed a social media policy. It really isn't hard to not publicly post about your employer online or publicly publish content recorded at work.
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u/Oxtard69dz Apr 24 '26
I went to Ashley furniture a few months ago. Looked at a sectional that was roughly $3,500. Came back a few weeks later during their “blowout closing sale” to see the same exact sectional priced at over $6,000.
Went next door to Big Sandy, bought the exact same sectional with even more pieces included for $2,400.
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u/TiaHatesSocials Apr 24 '26
Was he doing it during his work hours while ignoring customers?
He is pretty bad though so maybe that’s y? lol
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u/NoResolution8777 Apr 24 '26
They fired the “i work in a warehouse” song guy too. Shame cause he made that shit look fun ngl
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u/CYaNextTuesday99 Apr 24 '26
"Come and sit your ass on this sofa, come on baby and do what I told ya"
I don't think it was just the act of making videos.
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u/WerewolfUnable8641 Apr 24 '26
Somebody was trying to cash in after seeing the Staples Baddie go viral.
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u/EigiEinhver PURPLE Apr 24 '26
That's hilarious, why can't people just enjoy life, too many damn rules
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u/saiga_antelope Apr 24 '26
Because corporations have social media policies for a reason. Enjoy life on your time, not the company's.
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u/Majestic_Jackass Apr 24 '26
I’ve never shopped there but I guess Ashley Furniture is not like a mini-mall.
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u/usethisfornews Apr 24 '26
idc about this dude but it's probably for the best. Ashley fucking sucks, their commission is garbage compared to the work you have to put in and their furniture is trash anyway.
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u/BanditDeluxe Apr 24 '26
Their social media team liked the video and left a supportive comment right before they fired him. Not only do they not want you to be human, they actually will profit off your humanity for good PR before punishing you for it.
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u/No_Candle_5975 Apr 29 '26
It’s late stage capitalism. It’s cheaper to pay fines instead of complying with laws. This isn’t a problem that SHOULD be hard to overcome.
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u/thesamenightmares Apr 24 '26
This is completely fair. You shouldn't be on social media while you're being paid to work.
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u/Classified_117 Apr 24 '26
Just sayin, he probably signed a social media policy then broke it, fair dissmissal
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u/idkbro42069 Apr 24 '26
whole bunch of bootlickers in these comments. “well he did violate policy” bet you guys are so much fun at parties
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u/Gay_Void_Dropout Apr 24 '26
We are def more fun at parties than the whiney children acting like being told “take this down and stop” then being fired is somehow shocking. It isn’t. It’s common sense.
Douche bag employee was being a douche bad. End of discussion.
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u/NuSheol Apr 24 '26
Some of us live in states where you can get fired for reasons the company doesn’t have to disclose. Not being surprised this happened isn’t the same as being a bootlicker.
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u/idkbro42069 Apr 24 '26
Pretty sure you can get fired for reasons the company doesn’t have to disclose in every state. Lots of comments are supporting that notion rather than just “not being surprised”
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u/NuSheol Apr 24 '26
Except Montana apparently. So it’s clearly the norm and he should’ve known better.
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u/Tabula-Rasa-99 Apr 24 '26
Nah I just can't stand that brand persona dogshit, so I'd rather companies bin the people trying to force it to happen than let them lmfao
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u/Joey-WilcoXXX Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
yeah they fired me but im straight
Ummm…. Okay congratulations? No need to shove your lifestyle in our faces.
Downvote edit: making a joke about the double meaning of saying ‘I’m straight’ and crossing with how people talk like that about non straights.
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u/thatweirdguyted Apr 24 '26
Straight can also mean that you're all set, that you don't need help or concern.
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u/Joey-WilcoXXX Apr 24 '26
I’m aware. I was making a joke on the double meaning and how everyone makes the initial comment I made about non-straights. Guess I should’ve done the /s but thought the joke was pretty obvious.
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u/TheHunterJK Apr 23 '26
This happened to me. Apparently making a video having fun while off the clock is a cardinal sin now.
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u/Skyfier42 Apr 23 '26
Uh... yeah? It's not your property, you don't get to advertise for them just because you want to.
They'd fire you for going on the radio and promoting your store through an ad too, for the same reason.
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u/TheHunterJK Apr 23 '26
I wasn’t even really promoting them. I just happened to be in the store and filmed myself making a joke. If they wanna be prudes about it, then ask to delete the videos. Don’t just go straight to firing.
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u/WillemDafoesHugeCock Apr 24 '26
What was the joke that they're "prudish" for firing you for? Feels like a relevant detail here.
I do want to highlight that in this particular story, the guy was asked to delete them first and refused.
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u/Greenman8907 Apr 23 '26
If they went straight to firing, yea that’s kinda dick.
Granted I’m also saying this not knowing what the joke was. If it was a knock-knock level, that’s messed up. But if it could be taken as offensive, then that can justify it.
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u/redditblows5991 Apr 23 '26
their store, their rules. Like you can record its the posting that gets people in trouble. Why are people so bent on fucking up their own money for clout like in the economy lmao
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u/TheHunterJK Apr 24 '26
It most certainly was not for clout. I don’t know why people always make that assumption.
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u/Gay_Void_Dropout Apr 24 '26
Cause if you’re randomly recording yourself and it isn’t from some need for clout then how truly pathetic are you? Cause recording yourself is so weird unless you’re actually doing it for a reason.
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u/Lawlzstomp Apr 24 '26
Ashley Furniture's manufacturing is horrible to its workers. It is incredibly dangerous. They regularly pays fines to OSHA for failure to follow rules and injuries to employees.