dooce, as posted by Mark. In particular, check out her about page, 'cause that's where the fun is.
I'm not really sure what her name is. Can't find it anywhere. Doesn't matter though. The issue I'm concerned with is that she was fired for her weblog.
As I've mentioned, I got a job. However, you might have noticed that I didn't say where. The above mentioned episode is why. No one quite knows where the line is between free speech and job security. That kind of worries me.
This is my personal site. I write what I want. However, every email I send to a company with resume and cover letter attached gives people a path back here. What if they don't like my writing or my opinions? I could get another email address, yahoo or hotmail, but a quick search for my name on the internet and they'd probably be able to find me. Especially with all the info they can get from my resume.
So what can you do? It's a sucky situation and unfortunately Dooce isn't alone. Mark, mentioned above, was in a similar situation. Ideas? Thoughts? Comments? Post away.
My paranoia meter just shot off the charts. I'm tempted to find anybody who has any ocntrol over my general well-being and offer them blowjobs.
I try to keep from talking about work on my site. But I did today. I like to believe that people have better things to do than investigate their employees opinions about the world at large. I'm hired to do a job, not offer my world commentary, if someone wants to get rid of me based on that, screw them. Screw them for judging me. I tell it like it is. I do it online as well as to their face. People should have nothing to hide.
Mark posted about the anniversary of his firing today. Although I think Dave is right about not hiding things, I also don't believe that companies are so morally competent as to do the right thing. It gets even worse when you're dealing with code and you discuss it on your personal site, or engineering for example. Where is the line between what is yours and what is the company's? For example, if you are being paid a salary, you're effectively on the clock 24/7. Does that mean that at midnight when you spring from your sleep in full sweat with the answer to that problem you've been trying to solve all day your company owns it? I'm sure they think so, and you've probably signed papers that say so as well. Will we be signing papers in the near future keeping us from discussing such things on our personal sites? I'm afraid to think about where we could be heading.
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