Blog Fallout: Nasty times at New Times

I remember working for a large fortune 500 company a few years ago when a memo came from senior management that a website had been created called www.companynameSUCKS.com and how no employees were to become affiliated with the site, post comments or otherwise contribute. The company sued the site owners and if I recall correctly, the site remained operational until the site owners became bored or got tired of paying for it.

Now that the latest craze is web blogs, we now see that employees of companies are feeling free to voice their objections to their employers and coworkers in the blogs. Companies, having learned from earlier experience, may not be suing, but instead firing the blogging employees instead.

Link: Daily Business Review.

Nasty times at New Times

Blogging - the publication by individuals of comments on personal Internet sites called Web logs - is becoming a growing legal and personnel headache for employers across the country.

Derogatory comments about employers and fellow workers, leaks of proprietary information and other objectionable material broadcast into cyberspace have led to firings and lawsuits in dozens of cases nationwide.

If you have a blog, don’t burn those bridges…Imagine the interview questions for your next job. “So why were you fired?” “Uh-huh…so why did you feel you had to state your objections about the company to the entire world?”