Just to be clear, when you blog it is not the same as taking the piss out of your boss and the job down at the pub. Blogging is public and universally-accessible so you will be discovered and probably fired if you bite the hand that feeds you.
The other morning NPR had an article about a Brit git who said that he wrote in his blog as if he were down at his local with his mates. This included a lot of vitriolic pissing about his awful boss and crap job. He was indignant when he was kicked to the curb.
Here are some recent articles outlining how “on the dole” blogging smack about your job might put you, lad, as well as some very useful advice.
Washington Post: Free Expression Can Be Costly When Bloggers Bad-Mouth Jobs
CNN Money: Have a blog, lose your job?
SFGate: BLOGS Beware if your blog is related to work
ZDNet Australia: Google blogger: ‘I was terminated’
INVESTORS.COM: Blogger booted by Google
Scotsman: Bookshop worker first to be sacked over internet ‘blog’
If you don’t like your job, just quit; otherwise, I highly recommend nipping down to the pub for real and getting rid of some of that rage. In the pub your insufferable pissing and moaning is ephemeral; on the Internet, your words are forever.
And if you are an employer who wants to find out if your employees or folks in general are blogging about you and what they are saying, pop me an email or call me and I would be happy to talk to you about some very effective solutions indeed.
