Getting fired for your blog

[ses5909]

This is the latest I have read....

Game Over - News - The Stranger, Seattles Only Newspaper (http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=322407)

[Michael Martin]

From the sounds of things, she was writing slander. Clearly she wasn't careful enough if she was identified. It's doubtful that the boss found it herself. More likely someone else found it and told the boss. How would you feel if someone you were supposed to be in a team with was writing such horrible things about you? :( (And that the whole office was now guaranteed to read it all. Gossip travels fast.)

[BPartch]

Looks like her blog is gone now, it was there just awhile ago.

[shyflower]

Looks like her blog is gone now, it was there just awhile ago.

I just read it, but it looks like its been radically cleaned up.

[smittenbite]

but it says that she never mentioned any real names which i think would be a requirement to prove anything (if she wanted to take it to court).

[Michael Martin]

but it says that she never mentioned any real names which i think would be a requirement to prove anything (if she wanted to take it to court).

She posted photos. :)

[davemcnally]

It's not there any more by the looks of it. Just says its not available. Guess a few people at nintendo took offence!

[Michael Martin]

If it got you fired from one job, you'd be likely to delete it all any way. What are the odds of her getting a new job with that in the background? (Especially as it's much more traceable now, through all the media attention it must have gotten)

[goldfries]

I highlighted it in my post
http://www.goldfries.com/websites-blogging/what-makes-content-a-good-king/

here's what i said

Recently I came by a blog, the author talked about the stress and many other things she face in her line of work. There she also hurled quite a few opinion about her boss. Now contents like this do make a blog interesting but what happens if your boss happen to find out the blog? Where would you stand now in your relationship with your superior? And what about future employment?

one should understand their company policies and 101 other stuff before deciding to post content that could potentially damage their living.

[Prettyfem]

Nothing's ever anonymous on the internet.

[mccormicky]

I don't don't think she deserved to get fired but I do think what she did was a little foolish.

As Michael Martin said, she might find it difficult to find work in her field any time soon.
Who would hire her knowing she likes to type behind folks' backs?
I just hate to hear anyone is getting Big Brothered.But that is the corporate world...
I have "cleaned up" posts I have thought 2x about, I wish she hadn't. That kind of publicity is valuable and she might have been able to parley blogging into a full time job. Or some online mag...that wouldn't surprise me.
the problem is she wrote about her job and now that source of inspiration is gone so any further writings might be kinda dull.