Conduct | Senior staffer quits using boss' Twitter account

Over the years, HR Grapevine has reported on several unconventional ways in which an employee has quit their job.

From public rows with the boss, to hanging posters on the wall explaining to customers why they’ve walked and even baking a cake with a resignation letter iced on the top. However, rarely has a resignation been as public, or as damming of the employer than in the recent case of Jared O’Mara.

O’Mara, who is a Member of Parliament for the constituency of Sheffield Hallam – who displaced opponent Nick Clegg in 2017 – discovered that his own Chief of Staff Gareth Arnold had resigned following a thread of damming tweets that he had sent from O’Mara’s own Twitter account on Tuesday night.

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Arnold posted a string of tweets, all of which blasted O’Mara for his conduct not only as a boss, but as a Member of Parliament and for his own personal conduct. “Jared, you are the most disgustingly morally bankrupt person I have ever had the displeasure of working with. You do not care about your constituents. You do not care about anyone but yourself,” Arnold wrote in one tweet, which was reportedly left on the page for over an hour and a half.