Oh FYI: Today was my last day at TIDAL.

I appreciate everyone who has reached out to congratulate me on quitting, but to be clear—I was fired.

The severance amount was insulting so I didn't accept or sign the shaky NDA because I rather have the ability to speak for myself.

Remember when TIDAL was dragged for hosting a Drink Champs ep about BLM ft. Russell Simmons? & people concluded they don't respect/support Black women?

Somehow, the internal response to that was to fire the Black woman whose job it is to tweet promotion for said show...

FYI: Before anything gets to a social team, it has to be approved by everyone above. And in this case, this a show TIDAL doesn't even produce — just hosts in app.

So there's room to not publish questionable content. Still, everyone saw it & said "*shrug* Cool."

I reluctantly posted (not the first time I posted something I didn't agree with) but that's the job I suppose.

When I flagged the online dragging the senior mgmt narrative flipped into: "I had ~no idea~ of Russell's assault allegations. If YOU knew, why would you post it?"

And I was gone the next day.

In any other case, I'd be embarrassed to admit to being fired. But being dropped for not agreeing with distasteful decision making doesn't feel like an L to me.

After two terrible social media jobs, I say all that to say this: In every company, social managers don't make the calls but are always at fault when shit hits the fan.

So please think about that before applying to your next cool job. </end>