After getting fired, Rachel Gilmore recorded and posted the conversation she had with CTV
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Summary
On this week's episode of Thick & Thin, the guys talk about the fallout from a controversial video of a woman who recorded herself being fired from a job and put it out on social media to get sympathy for herself, and the backlash she received.
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So I guess she recorded the conversation where she got fired.
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And of course, because everything she does, she does it for clicks.
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Let's play this clip and hear what that sounded like.
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I have to say, I knew that you had that troll base and I knew that you would get, you know, some sort of reaction.
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But I really did not realize the extent of the volume of that pushback that we had.
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My goal as the EP for the show is I just want to do election coverage.
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just you know it's a critical election for canadians we've got trump we've got terrorists
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we've got crazy amounts of information coming in we just want to be able to get back to people
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but the who we're talking to is kind of drowning out the what we're talking about right now
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um and i don't feel like we have the bandwidth to deal with it so uh i i feel terrible about
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doing this but i'm just gonna call down the segment that we were planning to do with you
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because i just don't think we have the bandwidth to be able to keep the focus where we need to
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i don't know about you mario i don't know if you've ever been fired from a job but i don't
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understand the impulse to record like probably a personally devastating conversation and then
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instantly put it out i guess to get sympathy i i don't quite understand why maybe this is like a
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trend uh online that people like to record themselves getting fired and then share it
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to get sympathy um what do you what do you make of that honestly when you're trying to make
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your career as a social media person you're trying to be this credible person as a journalist you
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have been given this opportunity there's more elegant ways of parting ways and this i believe
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is the absolute worst thing you could possibly do like i don't understand how it makes any sort of
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sense imagine and it's no different than an nba player if an nba player says you know uh f this
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team f the coach f these people and you're a problem no one's gonna want you