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Be careful what you blog...
It could get you fired.
"Peter Whitney said Wells Fargo dismissed him after co-workers discovered his online journal. Delta Airlines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti said she got the boot for hers. Even a staffer at Friendster, the social networking site in Mountain View that encourages users to post detailed personal information about themselves online, said she was fired for her blog."
It's finally here...big brother is watching. And you can't trust anyone, it seems. I'm self-employed, so I don't sweat this right now--but I know that if someone chose to take offense at anything in my LJ, it might impact whether I could get hired in the future.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/24/BUGCEAT1I01.DTL
"But there are some exceptions. California bars private employers from
sanctioning workers for political activity. So you can't be fired for blogging for Bush, for instance, even if your company is run by a die-hard Democrat."
Of course, we remember the lady fired in the Southeast for her Kerry bumper sticker, so check your state laws before exercising your right to dissent from the boss.
I was reminded today that in 1984, Orwell did not talk about immediate seizure of rights through physical violence...he first talked about enforcing certain word choices. Notice how Social Security "privatization" became "private accounts", and when the focus groups didn't like that one either, we're now up to "personal accounts." And the media seems to be on board with this....
"...totalitarianism starts with the language, not with the secret police."
----Mark A. R. Kleiman
"Peter Whitney said Wells Fargo dismissed him after co-workers discovered his online journal. Delta Airlines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti said she got the boot for hers. Even a staffer at Friendster, the social networking site in Mountain View that encourages users to post detailed personal information about themselves online, said she was fired for her blog."
It's finally here...big brother is watching. And you can't trust anyone, it seems. I'm self-employed, so I don't sweat this right now--but I know that if someone chose to take offense at anything in my LJ, it might impact whether I could get hired in the future.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/01/24/BUGCEAT1I01.DTL
"But there are some exceptions. California bars private employers from
sanctioning workers for political activity. So you can't be fired for blogging for Bush, for instance, even if your company is run by a die-hard Democrat."
Of course, we remember the lady fired in the Southeast for her Kerry bumper sticker, so check your state laws before exercising your right to dissent from the boss.
I was reminded today that in 1984, Orwell did not talk about immediate seizure of rights through physical violence...he first talked about enforcing certain word choices. Notice how Social Security "privatization" became "private accounts", and when the focus groups didn't like that one either, we're now up to "personal accounts." And the media seems to be on board with this....
"...totalitarianism starts with the language, not with the secret police."
----Mark A. R. Kleiman