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Blogging? You are so fired
Posted by Fired Fred on July 19, 2007 4:20 PM
I suggest you take the figures Wired cited for firings related to blogging with a grain of salt the size of a truck. They're saying about ten percent of companies have fired people for violating corporate blogging or message board policies.
Even the guy who wrote the Wired article politely suggested the survey may have a subtle essence of eau du bullshit. It's a company that sells stuff to detect such nefarious blogging and forum postings, I mean really be a little more obvious, people...
Nearly ten percent of companies have fired an employee for violating corporate blogging or message board policies, and 19 percent have disciplined an employee for the same infractions, according to a new survey from Proofpoint, a messaging security company.The whole country would have fired-for-blogging people wandering around like the infected people in 28 Days Later. They'd be pulling me off my bike in front of In-N-Out, trying to take my phone and do some texting.
If you've got some kind of health condition, skip the grain of salt. Not to mention scary surveys.