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Ha - they offered to hire her back and she declined. Gotta agree there. Who wants to work for a company that outsources its hire/fire decisions to a vote among random Twitter users?

The question now though is, are there any employers left that don't do that?

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I think it'd be naive to suppose that there's some company out there that's gonna stand up to the mob. A company is first and foremost attempting to make money. The mob isn't ever going to review the history and actions of the company either in the moment or even after the fact, groupthink isn't complicated enough for that, so company's will likely default to what Chipotle did.

Corporations can signal their values through acting morally and with regard to the health and safety of society. Check out Patagonia. They donated $10 million saved in tax cuts to environmental groups.

Tyler Cowen covers other instances in his new book: Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero.

So the public exposure of ordinary folks (a.k.a. "social media") has led to an intrusion of PR into HR. Anybody in America tempted to look with scorn on China's new social credit system would do well to notice the similarities. And the differences aren't that surprising either - China's is controlled by the government; ours is controlled by corporations.

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