Marc Jacobs Intern Has Public Meltdown On Brand’s Twitter Account

by Julia Rubin | 3:10 pm, March 26th, 2011

Last month Marc Jacobs announced that it was looking for someone to take over its then Robert Duffy-helmed Twitter account. The company is still looking for someone to fill the position, and has had an intern tweeting for the time being. That is, until now. Because said intern had a full-on meltdown on the @MarcJacobsIntl account.

The tweets no longer exist, but the Daily Mail has a play-by-play of the action:

You guys and gals have no idea how difficult Robert is. I am only an intern. My last day is tomorrow. I wouldn’t be tweeting this if not!

I was asked to do this until we found a replacement… I hate this job. Hope they find someone soon. Robert is so picky! We have presented him with 50 people. He’s not happy.

Good luck! I pray for you all. If you get the job! I’m out of here. See ya! Son’t want to be ya! Roberts a tyrant! Seriously! He is tough!

I can call him out! I’m out! Won’t work in this town again! I know that! Learned a lot. But, I don’t have the energy for what is expected!

Yea, walk in my MJ shoes! Don’t judge me! I’m alone in this office having to try and entertain you all. This isn’t easy. I have tried. Done!

Yikes. Awkward, unprofessional and embarrassing. As a means of damage control, the brand tweeted a pair of responses seen above and below: “All is well here at MJ. Twitter is a crazy place. Protect your passwords.” and “Things are crazy in the twittersphere. Never let your phone too far out of sight.” While these statements place the blame on a hacker (or phone stealer?) of sorts instead of an internal source, we’re not totally convinced — the offending tweets certainly read like those of a disgruntled employee.

[Daily Mail]

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http://theeverydayman.livejournal.com/ The Everyday Man

What an ungraceful way to exit. Some people just lack class. Sorry that he/she had it rough but others would have killed to get that job. Even if he/she was just an intern I’m sure he/she learned and experienced a lot of invaluable stuff from working in such a big fashion company, what a way to pay them off.
http://www.mediastrut.com J Danielle

Oh I have to link to this on my blog! I’m so tired of the “I was hacked” excuse. If they fired the intern anyway, why not just say they’re going to be more careful with their hires going forward. (and maybe nicer too? haha)
http://twitter.com/JamesBurgePR James Burge

If MJ is not able to tweet himself, he shouldn’t do it at all!
http://twitter.com/CestDerrode Derrode L. Rowe

But in all fairness a lot of fashion companies do abuses their interns too much, but you DO NOT explode on a twitter account (that is not yours) and say stuff like that. Especially when you work for a high profile company. It’s not about the intern having class. It’s about the intern being professional & smart enough know what to say on a public website for one as big as MJ.

This should teach companies like MJ a lesson about working on what for the company!
http://twitter.com/wavyJACKS Jacqueline Frances

I actually saw this on Twitter live, while the intern was tweeting. I was completely dumfounded. How unprofessional. I thought I was going crazy reading the tweets from the MJ account… like, really? Who let this fool have access to the account? HOW EMBARRASSING!

News flash, people: the fashion industry is not nice to people in general, PERIOD … this not NEW news. Everyone thinks they’re better than every other person standing in the room. Catch my drift? However, given the fact that the intern tweeting dropped names (Robert’s, specifically) & also tweeted about having to tweet “alone in the office trying to please [us] people” — I knew it wasn’t a case of “hacking.” No matter how overworked one may be, there’s no excuse to lash out publicly via the company’s ONLY Twitter account.

Let this be a lesson for all of the people who think working in fashion is easy. It’s not, unless you happen to know people and have money.
Grow up

If you can last being an intern than you can “maybe” last in the job. ” maybe”
Anonymous

Soon, instead of random drug testing being a company policy, mental competency exams will be given before allowing a person to be the voice of their global brand to the masses…

Because you never know what someone is dying to say to the whole virtual world and if they might just be too tempted not to say it.

http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2011/03/marc-jacobs-intern-has-a-very-public-breakdown/
http://www.fashionscollective.com Eli

Am I the only person who thinks this could have been planted for PR purposes??
Sparklepops

I highly doubt something so negative was a pr stunt. However, I am SURE that they ended up with a ton of new followers. Not to mention a ton more applicants for the postion, who will surely be including “Qualifications” on their resume like Knows when to keep mouth shut, Adept at taking crap from superiors and not tweeting it later on the company Twitter feed.

I guess it just goes to prove yet again that not all bad press is bad press… Unless you’re BP.

Marc Jacobs Intern Has Public Meltdown On Brand’s Twitter Account

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