Fired social media supervisor goes rogue on N.J. city’s TikTok account

Graham Colligan was putting up quaint movie from Summit Diner just months back, promoting the area small business.

But in the previous handful of days, the tenor of his TikTok posts improved significantly.

Instantly, he was spouting off about his least favored New Jersey malls, the significant price tag of nearby households and alleged mistreatment by his previous employer.

But this wasn’t his private account.

The posts, shared by @summitdowntown, emerged weeks after Colligan suggests he was fired from his position as social media supervisor for Summit Downtown, the nonprofit business that represents enterprises in the Union County city’s downtown Exclusive Enhancement District.

Early Thursday, he was even now putting up from the institutional TikTok account.

“Summit NJ fired me as their social media manager but I’m still logged into their TikTok account lmao,” Colligan wrote in the caption of 1 movie. And below: “Alright time to commence some Nj drama.”

Colligan appeared in that video clip and a series of many others posted to the account, which has because been deleted.

His apparent commandeering of the Summit account, wherever the mentioned description was “What’s happening ideal now in the outlets, dining establishments, & corporations of Summit NJ,” did not go unnoticed by its 1,375 followers.

A TikTok account for the Downtown Naperville Alliance of Naperville, Illinois, replied to his video clip.

“Looking for a person to assistance launch our TikTok website page,” their concept reported. “But not anyone that will get it in excess of and lock us out.”

Colligan highlighted the information and shipped an respond to in another video that appeared to expose some of the difficulties at the root of his departure.

“Listen, as very long as you address your employee well, and pay them the volume that you agreed upon and didn’t fireplace them for likely on holiday that you OK’d with three months in progress, I’m positive, like, there’s no cause why anyone would lock you out of your account, in particular following a month of being fired.”

In one more movie railing in opposition to the value of multimillion greenback homes in the Summit location, Colligan claimed he created $23 an hour and labored 10 to 15 hours a 7 days in his section-time Summit Downtown occupation.

He prefaced a single movie in which he mentioned his picks for worst malls: “My old bosses told me to never discuss poorly about Short Hills Mall so because I never perform there any longer…”

You know what’s coming.

The Shopping mall at Limited Hills is “mega capitalist corporate America variety sh-t. Like, cookie-cutter stealing away from, like, small firms … just, I really do not f— with it.” Westfield Garden Condition Plaza, Ocean County Shopping mall and Monmouth Shopping mall also manufactured his record, in scenario you’re curious.

Colligan was still shown as “marketing admin” on the Summit Downtown internet site Thursday, which also had a occupation listing for a advertising admin and social media manager position. The same day, his title had been scrubbed from the web-site and the TikTok account was gone.

Nancy Adams, executive director of Summit Downtown, dealt with the off-manufacturer TikTok posts Thursday when reached by NJ Progress Media.

“Summit Downtown Inc. has deleted the articles posted on our Tik Tok account by a recalcitrant former worker,” she wrote in an email. “He has been recommended that even further motion will be taken if he makes an attempt to accessibility the social media channel or any SDI platform in the future.”

Colligan did not respond to NJ Progress Media requests for comment.

A mention of his time operating for Summit Downtown, which was listed along with other social media employment on his LinkedIn website page just hrs previously, experienced been deleted. Colligan started the position in September and claimed he was fired in December.

The Summit Downtown board of trustees is produced up of business enterprise proprietors, citizens, council associates, the mayor and metropolis administrator. The business is funded by way of an assessment on properties in the district, with money going toward promoting and events like Summit Farmers Current market, Trick-or-Address Downtown and Summit Road Seems.

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Amy Kuperinsky might be arrived at at [email protected] and followed at @AmyKup on Twitter.