Blogging is perilous
October 23rd, 2004 - 12:46pm - No Comments »
Posting your personal and private feelings and experiences is sometimes difficult enough without having to worry about losing your job or being sued. Well, it’s happened in the past, and it’s still happening.
Last year, a Microsoft employee posted (on his personal blog) a photo of a stack of G5s arriving at a Microsoft office. A few days later, the guy was fired; the termination was a direct result of the earlier post.
Earlier this year, an employee of Friendster just happened to make two posts regarding what work she’d done at Friendster. A couple of weeks later, she too was fired.
More recently, Sun’s CEO’s personal blogging regarding HP’s business strategies has landed him into some trouble with HP sending a nasty letter. Of course, Sun isn’t going to back down (I wonder what they’d have done if it wasn’t their CEO?) and responded telling HP to get stuffed.
A bit worrying really; I can see the reasons for the actions taken against the (now) ex-employees but to be honest they’re a bit over-the-top and I’d hate to ever be in such a position just for writing my opinion.
