MORE ON OFF DUTY JOB BEHAVIOR

This reminds me of when someone I know used to write about work experiences she was very careful not to name names or anything like that . Her job is such that it had a lot of traffic flow (customers, clients) and she would talk about the happenings at work. We all enjoyed the stories some were funny some were sad and some were very inlightening. In any case they made good reading.
Well one of the 'CATS' (meow) that worked there was obviously jealous of her, found out about her blog and tried to cause her trouble. My blogger friend is very well liked I thought it was going to cause a war. Haven't heard any more about it? Maybe someone cut out the cats tongue lol.


WARNING: YOUR CLEVER LITTLE BLOG COULD GET YOU FIRED


Like a growing number of employees, Peter Whitney decided to launch a blog on the Internet to chronicle his life, his friends and his job at a division of Wells Fargo.

Then he began taking jabs at a few people he worked with.

His blog, gravityspike.blogspot.com, did find an audience: his bosses. In August 2004, the 27-year-old was fired from his job handling mail and the front desk, he says, after managers learned of his Web log, or blog

His story is more than a cautionary tale. Delta Air Lines, Google and other major companies are firing and disciplining employees for what they say about work on their blogs, which are personal sites that often contain a mix of frank commentary, freewheeling opinions and journaling.

And it's hardly just an issue for employees: Some major employers such as IBM are now passing first-of-their-kind employee blogging guidelines designed to prevent problems, such as the online publishing of trade secrets, without stifling the kinds of blogs that can also create valuable buzz about a company.

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