Beware if your blog is related to work

[davidinalameda]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/24/BUGCEAT1I01.DTL

Be careful what you blog. It could get you fired.

Peter Whitney said Wells Fargo dismissed him after co-workers discovered his online journal. Delta Airlines flight attendant Ellen Simonetti said she got the boot for hers. Even a staffer at Friendster, the social networking site in Mountain View that encourages users to post detailed personal information about themselves online, said she was fired for her blog.

[noamnety]

1. It happened to one of my coworkers a few weeks ago.

Someone found her blog - posted under an anonymous name, and now she's gone. Nothing illegal was in the blog, nobody identified by name, but there were some unflattering comments about coworkers.

[geniph]

2. It's a good idea to falsify company names a bit

It's harder for the companies to justify this kind of action if you refer to the company as Macrosquash, for example. I hate this kind of thing, but that's what happens when you have at-will employment.

[SemperEadem]

3. happened to a former radio reporter in LA

who had a website about industry talk--seems one day he said something unflattering about a female announcer on the site and was canned that same week... they both worked for the same parent company, but he was under the impression that because it was on his home computer and he wasn't on company time, he could say what he wanted.

My advice--if you're gonna blog, don't blog about anything that has to do with your employment or anyone in your place of employment. They can hire computer forensic folks who can locate your IP and nail your butt. The law is in the pocket of corporations, not average citizens.