[Jack_]

When Mufadal Jiwaji sent TV critic Grace Dent an insulting tweet during her appearance on Sunday night’s Have I Got News For You he probably thought it was a throwaway witty comment which might amuse his handful of followers.
He didn’t realise that she was a client of the PR firm he works for and that it could end up losing him his job.

He commented, “@gracedent reminds me of a girlfriend I once had. By girlfriend I mean that time I accidentally made love to an ugly abhorrent horse.” And while it was written in better English than most trolling comments, it was just as unfunny to the person on the receiving end.



With 112K followers I don’t know how much of this sort of abuse Dent has to put up with herself, but something led her to take a moment to look this guy up and find out who is. And she discovered that he works for PR firm Hill+Knowlton, of whom she is a client. Cue massive climbdown from Juwaji.

@gracedent: “I’m wondering, as a public relations person for a firm I work with, what your thinking was in sending me this message?

@mufadal: “it was naive and ill-warranted. I won’t delete it, as I ought to bare the full brunt of my idiocy.” [Not such great English]

@gracedent: “You’ll bear the brunt of your idiocy at 10am tomorrow morning when you’re unemployed. Good luck.”

Source

Thoughts? Fair, or too far?

[MTVN]

Pathetic, ruin someone's career because you were jokingly insulted on Twitter, being on the receiving end of things like this is part and parcel of being a well known figure in the public eye

[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Pathetic, ruin someone's career because you were jokingly insulted on Twitter, being on the receiving end of things like this is part and parcel of being a well known figure in the public eye

Yup, this

[bbfan1991]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Pathetic, ruin someone's career because you were jokingly insulted on Twitter, being on the receiving end of things like this is part and parcel of being a well known figure in the public eye

This...

[arista]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Pathetic, ruin someone's career because you were jokingly insulted on Twitter, being on the receiving end of things like this is part and parcel of being a well known figure in the public eye

No Grace is a Tough Lady
he should not of messed with her.


If you are in a High Profile Job
and go on Public Twitter
to have a go at a Media Lady
of the Great GuardianMedia
you have chosed to Cross That Line.
Fact

[arista]

“You’ll bear the brunt of your idiocy at 10am tomorrow morning when you’re unemployed. Good luck.”

Grace is a Tough Lady
he was stupid to pick a Fight with her,
she is Sexy as well.

[Tom4784]

What a bitch. Given that she makes a living slagging off people's work you'd think she'd have thicker skin.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

What a bitch. Given that she makes a living slagging off people's work you'd think she'd have thicker skin.

She Does
but if you are High Profile
and Cross the Line she will
Attack back.


Thats Fair Dezzy

[InOne]

Don't mess with Grace Dent, that is the moral of the story.

[arista]

Originally Posted by InOne

Don't mess with Grace Dent, that is the moral of the story.

Yes she can Spank

[Scarlett.]

She's a client of the company he works for, which is a PR company, and he does the exact opposite of what a PR company is supposed to do. Sounds fair tbh.

[Pyramid*]

Originally Posted by Chewy

She's a client of the company he works for, which is a PR company, and he does the exact opposite of what a PR company is supposed to do. Sounds fair tbh.

This. Regardless of who she is or what she does for a living; she is a client of the company that pay his wages - ie: her money for their services keeps (kept!) him employed. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.

[Z]

Considering his line of work, he should have known better. If he was in an entirely unrelated job then she'd have had no chance of doing anything to him, everyone's entitled to their opinion - but he's in PR, she's in PR and at his company, he made a dumb move and I guess these are the consequences. Interested to hear if he will be fired or not.

[Marc]

Grace Dent

[MTVN]

I don't see why it matters that much what he does, not like he sent the tweet from the company account, can't people keep their work and personal lives separate to some degree?

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I don't see why it matters that much what he does, not like he sent the tweet from the company account, can't people keep their work and personal lives separate to some degree?

I agree with this, it's not like he was insulting her while he was working, and everyone has insulted somebody else in the past and have never been punished so why is he?

[arista]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I don't see why it matters that much what he does, not like he sent the tweet from the company account, can't people keep their work and personal lives separate to some degree?

Point it goes Full Public.
Who you work for Matters 100%.


If he did not have a job
it may not even be news.

This 2012 not 1999.

[Kazanne]

it would be really nasty of her to lose this person their job,not everyone thinks she is as wonderful as she does.

[King Gizzard]

She does come across as a cow anytime she speaks. This is a bit pathetic

Will probably struggle to find another job in the industry. He did explain himself as well

[Marc]

I don't agree with the whole 'punish them for what they say on Twitter' like that guy with the Muamba tweets, though it was ridiculous and disgusting, they shouldn't be prosecuted for it!

[King Gizzard]

Originally Posted by Marc

I don't agree with the whole 'punish them for what they say on Twitter' like that guy with the Muamba tweets, though it was ridiculous and disgusting, they shouldn't be prosecuted for it!

We'd need 438989438943 new prisons if every offensive racist tweet was prosecuted. Heavy heavy fines and to be sacked from whatever you do is enough

[Marc]

Originally Posted by Nathan

We'd need 438989438943 new prisons if every offensive racist tweet was prosecuted. Heavy heavy fines and to be sacked from whatever you do is enough

I mean Sickipedia would create 10 new prisons alone

[Niamh.]

To be fair though, an employee of a PR firm shouldn't be so stupid

[King Gizzard]

yeah, however wrong the guy being racist towards muamba was to do what he did, he was victimized and probably one of only a few that will lose everything because of it

[MTVN]

It's pretty hypocritical of Dent as well considering she's often mocking and insulting people as part of her job, I guess she only doesn't like it when she's on the receiving end