Another one I’ve got no sympathy for.
Another blogger bites the dust after being fired for her blog. There’s no reason given for why she was fired, but speculation on a Metafilter discussion about it is that it seems like many of the blog’s postings were done during normal work hours, since there’s really nothing work-related as far as anyone can tell, and that her employer probably canned her for misuse of company time.
And while I do think that Blogebrity is correct in warning people to watch their backs, I don’t think it’s an issue with clueless employers. I think it’s the employees who are clueless (and fuck, I’m allowed to rag on them since I was fired for my page only a couple of months after Heather Armstrong became the first major blogger to be dooced). If you’re going to say anything work-related on your blog, make sure that you’re not giving out your URL to coworkers, and don’t do the shit from the office computers. Your bosses on not the complete technological dingleberries you assume they are. Employers know how to use the internet. They know how to Google people. The only thing that they may be guilty of at times is not knowing the difference between things you do on work time and things you do on personal time, but if you’re blogging from work when you’re supposed to be working, then you had it coming.
Tags: blog, dooced, fired, jessaism, rants, rants, work, work
May 18th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
I keep what I do for work very vague but I do worry about getting in trouble for being online during work hours.
May 18th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Back when I was fired, I kept the name of the bank a secret, so even if I did use a customer name (only the famous ones!), no one knew where they were banking anyway.
May 20th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I agree, kinda find it hilarious that people still think their employers are clueless about what they do on the web. Hell, I was playing WoW with a friend one day when he was supposedly “working” and an employer apparently canned him the next day, despite him not even being at work when the “act” supposedly happened.
Turns out the employer played on the same server as him and found out his account name. Good Game No Rematch.