November 15, 2024

STLToday: Blog slog can get you in trouble in the workplace

Posted by: of ExecutiveSummary.com on 08/9/04

Sensible words of warning: don’t blog about your sex life or your boss’s dirty laundry without considering the impact it could have on your job security. At some jobs, it doesn’t really matter what you blog about; you boss or your boss’s boss just might not like blogs, or, more likely, understand them. Bottom line is unedited self-publishing online is threatening to some people. In which case, it comes down to which you like better — your blog or your job. Or, blog anonymously.

As if there weren’t enough examples of this sorry phenomenon already, here’s the latest: Penny Cholmondeley fired from her job working for Nunavut Tourism in the Arctic region of Canada due to one anonymous complaint about her blog Polar Penny.

STLToday: Blog slog can get you in trouble in the workplace

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