Paranoia has its limits
After receiving feedback from friends who I trust, I decided to take down yesterday’s post about my employer for the following reasons:
(1) I want to keep my job.
(2) See reason (1).
I recently read someone’s blog about how she got fired for writing about her work. What she wrote about her employer wasn’t negative, she didn’t reveal anything about where she worked, and she didn’t have a large readership, but they fired her anyway. A casual Google search of “fired because of blog” gave me a bevy of cases where people were canned for some reason or another because of their blog. Also, Blogger gives advice on how to avoid the sack when blogging and warns you to be careful.
I wish I could have kept yesterday’s post up because I liked it and The Princess thought it was funny. I may have a broken link now, but at least I still have my job.
(1) I want to keep my job.
(2) See reason (1).
I recently read someone’s blog about how she got fired for writing about her work. What she wrote about her employer wasn’t negative, she didn’t reveal anything about where she worked, and she didn’t have a large readership, but they fired her anyway. A casual Google search of “fired because of blog” gave me a bevy of cases where people were canned for some reason or another because of their blog. Also, Blogger gives advice on how to avoid the sack when blogging and warns you to be careful.
I wish I could have kept yesterday’s post up because I liked it and The Princess thought it was funny. I may have a broken link now, but at least I still have my job.
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on Wednesday, September 20, 2006 at 2:42 PM.
