Man in Singapore Fired For Throwing Tantrum on Facebook About Pokémon GO

Sonny Truyen used rage. It's not very effective...

The hype for Pokémon GO is very real and people are losing their jobs over it. Sonny Truyen, an Australian who just started working at Singapore property site 99.co as the vice president of digital marketing, has been fired for posting an angry rant about not having Pokémon GO yet.

Sonny got into a spat with a Singaporean named Adelene Kong, which started when Sonny called Singapore a "sh*t country."

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People tracked down Sonny and started leaving comments on his company's Facebook page

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99.co's CEO, Darius Cheung, tried to calm the storm by posting an apology. Also, letting people know that Sonny had been sacked.

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