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Whoops, Nikki Haley Tweets her snobbery

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U.N. Ambassador Haley gets backlash after tweeting about July 4 work forgetting just how many US military are also working on the 4th.
“Spending my 4th in meetings all day,” Haley wrote on Twitter. “#ThanksNorthKorea.”
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The reply was swift:
“While I appreciate your service to our nation, perhaps you should be thanking the nearly 200,000 US troops serving overseas on #FourthOfJuly,” Andrew Weinstein, a lawyer and former Obama administration appointee, wrote on Twitter, “not to mention those protecting our homeland, including the police officers, firefighters, and other first responders keeping us safe today.”
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I'm left confused. What was wrong with her tweet? (Apart from the general wrongness of all tweets?)
 
Darat said:
I'm left confused. What was wrong with her tweet? (Apart from the general wrongness of all tweets?)
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Only certain sectors of the 24 hour workforce are allowed to lament their working hours on twitter?

She's not in a laudable enough occupation to qualify?
 
Darat said:
I'm left confused. What was wrong with her tweet? (Apart from the general wrongness of all tweets?)
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Poor wittle Nikki, has to spend the holiday in meetings. Maybe if Trump wasn't egging on an megalomanic with nukes because ... Trump's ego, she could have had the day off. :rolleyes:
 
What concerns me is her implication the Trumpites are getting ready to do something to North Korea. :(
 
Darat said:
I'm left confused. What was wrong with her tweet? (Apart from the general wrongness of all tweets?)
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Apparently, the problem is that she complained about having to work on July 4th without acknowledging the fact that hundreds of thousands of U.S. military also had to work on 4 July.

Of course those military will be rostered off at some point in the future so that their service on the 4th July was business as usual as opposed to Nikki Haley who won't get a day off in lieu. People in the military are the only ones who matter (with the possible exception of first responders). No-one is clamouring for Ms. Haley to thank people working in the fast food industry for (quite literally) their service. It also plays to the notion that public servants are just that, servants who open themselves up to criticism whenever they take a day off, play a game of golf or complain about being overworked.
 
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It's not "snobbery", it's unprofessionalism. For a diplomat to complain of having to work because of a diplomatic crisis involving a hostile nuclear power suggests unfitness for the job. That's not an attitude one wants for someone in that job. Just like you wouldn't like to hear your heart surgeon bitching about having to work the day of your surgery when she'd rather be on the beach, would you? What kind of job performance do you think you're getting from someone who announces, publicly, how much they are annoyed by having to do their job?

I may resent having to work nights, weekends, and holidays in my job but I sure as hell never let the people I'm doing work for at those times know that. As far as they know I adore being woken up at 2 a.m. on Thanksgiving to deal with their emergency.
 
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It's not "snobbery", it's unprofessionalism. For a diplomat to complain of having to work because of a diplomatic crisis involving a hostile nuclear power suggests unfitness for the job. That's not an attitude one wants for someone in that job. Just like you wouldn't like to hear your heart surgeon bitching about having to work the day of your surgery when she'd rather be on the beach, would you? What kind of job performance do you think you're getting from someone who announces, publicly, how much they are annoyed by having to do their job?

I may resent having to work nights, weekends, and holidays in my job but I sure as hell never let the people I'm doing work for at those times know that. As far as they know I adore being woken up at 2 a.m. on Thanksgiving to deal with their emergency.
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I like it when people like doctors acknowledge that I is crappy to work holidays. It is good bedside manner and builds rapport to join in a very human tradition about complaining working holidays.
 
Even though she had to work, why couldn't she have been more upbeat and in the spirit on this special national holiday?!

"Looking forward to the fireworks." #ThanksNorthKorea

"...and the rockets' red glare!" #ThanksNorthKorea

"The bombs bursting in air!" #ThanksNorthKorea
 
I also don’t get any “snobbery” about the tweet. As TragicMonkey said, it may be viewed as unprofessional for an ambassador to complain about this, but I went to the local “quickie mart” in my town on the morning of the 4th because we were out of eggs for breakfast, and I sympathized with the clerk who had to work on the morning of.

As someone who used to work retail I will listen to anyone complain that they have to work on a holiday.
 
Shepherd said:
Even though she had to work, why couldn't she have been more upbeat and in the spirit on this special national holiday?!

"Looking forward to the fireworks." #ThanksNorthKorea

"...and the rockets' red glare!" #ThanksNorthKorea

"The bombs bursting in air!" #ThanksNorthKorea
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Lol Shepard. To me at least that sounds like some kind of veiled threat to NK.
 
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