Auto club fires 27 workers over blog posts
How many people are going to get fired for blogging before people start paying attention? Blogging does not give you the right to say anything and everything; you may think that while blogging on the net, you have a right to freedom of speech…well, you do have a right to freedom of speech, but that right doesn’t protect you from the concequences. Talk bad about your coworkers, bosses, or company policies and be prepared for the worst. The government agrees you have the right to say it but it doesn’t say you can’t be fired for it.
Apparently these 27 bloggers commented on co-workers’ weights and sexual orientations — I’m assuming not in a nice way. They also used their blogs to conspire against their company. Not so bright, many of them used their own names.
People seem to think that just by putting their words on the internet, they are being anonymous. They seem to think their loved ones, their friends, their coworkers, their bosses will never know — even when they use their own names. Those people know how to google too.
Part of the point of blogging, unless you password protect your blog, is to express yourself to the world, which is why it’s important to blog safe. Learn to protect yourself. Blog annonymously. Don’t discuss work. Don’t say anything you wouldn’t want your boss or mother to know.
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