Blogging can get you fired!

Tempest · Post by **Tempest** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:41 pm

Free Expression can be costly...

Am I the only one that thinks that it's stupid to get fired over something like this? I mean - the point of having a blog/journal is to vent about things like your job, school and the people around you.

While I can see the argument of 'It makes our company look bad", is that really something that warrants termination? Some people like a wide audience for their journal, as stated by the author of "Waiter Rant", but others have it only for their personal entertainment/therapy.

I can also see some concern blogging on company time. If it takes time away from the job they are getting paid to do, like while they are supposed to be working and not on a break, then yes I can see how this can be upsetting to an employer. I just have a hard time seeing people getting fired over what they do on their personal time. Especially something as petty as this.

peachvampiress · Post by **peachvampiress** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 10:44 pm

I read that story yesterday. If the person writing it is completely annoyimous and doesn't mention any names, then it's pretty stupid to fire them. But I can see how if someone figured out where a person works, it can be bad for the company.

Post by **Tiff** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:14 am

*Rolls eyes and shakes head*

Hah. I shoulda been fired a looong time ago, then.

Good thing I work for a rather ignorant company. ^_^

What next? They're going to start raiding message boards (like this), and hunt down members who want to vent?

Hell, why not take it a step further and just have someone with a clipboard, standing there during coffee and lunch breaks, writing down nameso f everyone that complains or vents?

RoastedTwinkies · Post by **RoastedTwinkies** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 12:17 am

I agree. That's just retarded. When I started my journal in high school, I made it friends only from the beginning, simply because I didn't always have the best things to say about my classmates. If someone found my journal, read my negative comments and took a spazz over it, I could have well gotten into trouble at school. I wish I could make my journal public, but I vent a lot about just about everything and I don't want to get into trouble for it.

Em · Post by Em » Sun Feb 13, 2005 8:10 pm

Even thought she was fired for "other reason" as well metioning her blog post was just stuipd what ever happned to freedom of speech?

As Tempest said posting on compony time would make senes as would giving the componay a bad name. But all in all it'sd just a few people nit picking.

And as for the message borad I've been banned from the internet at college for comming on them ^^;

yoshmaster5 · Post by **yoshmaster5** » Sun Feb 13, 2005 10:46 pm

Even thought she was fired for "other reason" as well metioning her blog post was just stuipd what ever happned to freedom of speech?

meet america, where our rights are given to us, but until it gets to the supreme court, we don't care about our amendments. unless you are in civics class, or U.S. history, or AP US. ugh...

honestly, we have freedom of speech/expression. what happens when you are at a completely conservative school and you say something constructive about Bush? "TRAITOR!!! YOU UNAMERICAN TRAITOR! YOU ARE A FUCKING TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!!!"

honestly...

ParaKiss_Groupie · Post by **ParaKiss_Groupie** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 2:33 am

yoshmaster5 wrote:
Even thought she was fired for "other reason" as well metioning her blog post was just stuipd what ever happned to freedom of speech?
meet america, where our rights are given to us, but until it gets to the supreme court, we don't care about our amendments. unless you are in civics class, or U.S. history, or AP US. ugh...

honestly, we have freedom of speech/expression. what happens when you are at a completely conservative school and you say something constructive about Bush? "TRAITOR!!! YOU UNAMERICAN TRAITOR! YOU ARE A FUCKING TERRORIST!!!!!!!!!!!!"

honestly...

*Mod Mode*

Yoshmaster....What the fuck does ANYTHING in this topic have to do with Bush? We all get it, you don't like him. Neither do many of us. But do you really have to illustrate this in every post? Chill out.

Akarui Kibuno · Post by **Akarui Kibuno** » Mon Feb 14, 2005 6:57 am

I think this story is retarded as well.

I would understand the firing if :

1) The person did it during working time (while this is not such a big mistake... OMFG the employee typed a few words that probably took him 5 minutes to type, which could have been used to go to the toilet during the day so it's the same anyway ¬_¬ ... ) .

2) The person gave out secrets from the company that NO ONE should know of. Like posting pictures should be a no-no if it's recognizable ^^;;

3) The person said really bad things about people directly (like insults and all).

Other than that, I don't see what would be the difference between a blogger saying the company suck and an newspaper article saying the same thing, since there ARE newspaper articles saying such things... right ?

U_U ...

Ayane · Post by **Ayane** » Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:00 am

I've read Queen of Sky's journal...she's on the same site as my main journal. Seriously, they were trying to deny her unemployment and everything because of the nature of the firing...and her bosses couldn't even tell her why exactly they fired her. They tried to say that the pictures she posted were "lewd" or something like that, when she was only showing a little bit of leg, nothing tasteless at all. Then they changed their story several more times before they refused to give her an exact reason, saying something like they weren't obligated to.