Maybe the NBA isn’t a great employer after all
Zachary Faria
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Even some of the biggest businesses in the world sometimes forget to make sure that only current, nondisgruntled employees are running their social media accounts.
A former employee for the NBA who had access to the league’s Facebook account gave a final sign-off after not having “worked here in weeks.” Among his grievances were that the NBA doesn’t provide health insurance until you are employed for 90 days and worked this particular social media employee on 14-hour shifts without breaks.
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All for the measly salary of $50,000 (after taxes). Some people really have it rough out there in the Biden economy, it seems.
Apparently, this same employee also used the NBA’s Facebook account to advertise his new business, meaning that he is less a hero of the $50,000-after-taxes working class and more an attempted entrepreneur trying to leech off his former employer and some social media buzz. You just can’t trust disgruntled employees to give you an honest assessment of their workplace anymore.
Of course, it isn’t hard to believe that the NBA “overextends” its social media team “greatly to the detriment of their health and social lives.” It’s a league with a heavy focus on social media, a fervent social media fanbase, and a track record of allying with a country that runs concentration camps. If those children in the sweatshops can work around the clock to help Nike sell NBA players’ signature sneakers, surely a social media page admin can put in a 14-hour day clipping highlights for NBA fans to scroll past and argue in the comments of.
It could always be worse. The social media team could be physically abused like the children at NBA camps in China were. If the league never had to answer for that, it probably won’t have to answer for helping our angry entrepreneur take home $50,000 for 14-hour days either.