Noses on the payroll

[cdward]

This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.

   Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.

💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9

[pauliewalnuts]

This is the latest tweet from our Bluenose.
He must be loving this, getting paid to read all the responses to this tweet.

   Aston Villa FC (@AVFCOfficial)
17/02/2017, 22:30
Injury news: @MicahRichards back in training.

💬️⚽️ Steve Bruce: “Micah is terrific around the place. I could do with him on the pitch.” pic.twitter.com/1WNqIlNOw9

Is that what we're getting angry about?

Who is this bloke?

[cdward]

@jeavons24
He is our Social Media Executive.

[pauliewalnuts]

Is that it?

Honestly, who gives a fuck who he supports just so long as he does his job properly.

If only we had something bigger and more important to worry about than this.

[BC54 VFC]

[pauliewalnuts]

Thats hardly damning evidence, is it?

Honestly, I am always up for a bit of righteous indignation, but is that it? Man reveals he's a Blues fan on social media then 3 years later gets a job at Villa?

Am I missing something else?

This is the sort of thing Small Heath or Albion fans would get annoyed about - it's small time.

He's a nose yet

1. He can read and write.
2. He's got a job.

You've got to be impressed by that.

[pauliewalnuts]

Oh, and I feel nothing but sympathy for anyone whose paid work is to, in front of the whole world, try to put a positive spin on anything - anything - which has come out of this club in the last year.

[PeterWithesShin]

He deleted a bunch of them that aren't on that screen shot.

[BC54 VFC]

Not really. Screen shot was taken at the point when the majority of tweets had been removed. I think Jimbo put it most eloquently earlier in this thread and I won't repeat all he said, but the issue is clearly with the muppets already employed at Villa Park who employed him without undertaking appropriate due diligence. Now he is employed, and has been spoken to on this matter, then I am sure he will learn quickly and I notice he has now removed reference to #BCFC on his 'front page'.

I'm afraid the media department at Villa Park is a joke and has been going downhill for a good while and certainly well before this guy was employed. I am aware of someone, well qualified, having previously applied for an advertised position within the department and having been dealt with very poorly when they enquired on the telephone as to the status of their application. I emailed the department, per the address on the official website, in January last year on a media matter and never received a response.   

[OzVilla]

It's not great from a few angles but I'm not going to call for this lad to lose his job. He's a nose, some of my family are noses, he'll learn.  If he doesn't he won't last.

Now he has the job he should keep it if he's performing, it's the people who recruited him that should feel the embarrassed.

[brian green]

It is, as has been said correctly, very small time but it is a perfect little example of what a sloppy arsed anything-goes club we had become in the final days of the Lerner ownership. 

[The Edge]

To be fair, I work at the Sty regularly as a contractor and carry out my duties professionally as I would for any other client, there's a lad in the ticket office who is Villa fan and another girl in admin that I know of.

But this is back office stuff. I'd say the role he's undertaking is a fair bit more sensitive, and given the shit he's displayed to all and sundry, it really should put him to the back of the pile of candidates in the first place.

I don't blame him, a job is a job and everyone has to work, but you have to ask questions of the recruitment. It's the kind of appointment Trump would make, giving the job to someone diametrically opposed its existence.

My son also works there. He loves the villa as much as i do. They all know who he supports but its not a problem as they know he's damn good at his job.This whole thing kicked off after I mentioned my son in a previous thread. We're better than this. This lad should only be judged on his ability to do the job the club has employed him to do. I suspect if we were running away with the league this wouldn't have even got a mention. Can we not just show some class as I've always believed that's what sets us apart from our rivals?

[Marlon From Bearwood]

I changed jobs last year and before I could start, my new employer conducted a full background social media check on me. My job has nothing to do with social media - they  just wanted to see if I'd posted anything inappropriate in the past.

To think that a company looking to employ someone in their, you know, social media department didn't do likewise is actually quite mind- boggling.

[London Villan]

As a social media exec you would hope he had the brain cells to consider his own profile before going for the job.

[cdward]

I would have thought answers to a few questions like, "what are your favourite Villa games/goals/players of the last 5/10 years", would have been enough to rule him out of a job that is supposed to connect with Villa supporters, and increase our fan base.