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Monday, March 14, 2005

Is This Okay, Dear?

The AZ Republic has an article about some employees who got fired for blogging:

Flight attendant Ellen Simonetti and former Google employee Mark Jen have more in common than their love of blogging: They both got fired over it. Simonetti had posted suggestive photographs of herself in uniform, while Jen speculated online about his employer's finances. In neither case were their bosses happy when they found out. Though many companies have Internet guidelines that prohibit visiting porn sites or forwarding racist jokes, few of the policies directly cover blogs, or Web journals, particularly those written outside of work hours. "There needs to be a dialogue going on between employers and employees," said Heather Armstrong, a Web designer fired for commenting on her blog about goings-on at work. "There's this power of personal publishing, and there needs to be rules about what you can or cannot say about the workplace. "On blogs, which are by their very nature public forums, people often muse about their likes and dislikes of family, friends or co-workers. About 27 percent of online U.S. adults read blogs, and 7 percent pen them, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.


Well, hmm. You probably won't ever see a picture of me on this blog, fully clothed in my CPA attire (complete with arm band and green visor - okay, not really) hunkered over a desk full of papers, much less in an inappropriate way; and thankfully, our office staff really do enjoy being together (five of the six in the office are family, and the sixth one acts like family). And it's a little bit harder to get fired for blogging when you're married to the boss. But I do run some of my posts by him, because I want to share the feel of our office and planning goings-on without embarrassing anyone or jumping the gun on proposed events.

So far, he's only been unhappy with one post; and I'm saving that one, in case things change later. Is this okay, Dear?

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