Your blog can cost you your job.
OK, you've probably heard some stories about a blogger who was let go from a place of emploment, for things said or shown on their blogs.
Joe Gordon, the author of the The Woolamaloo Gazette experienced that first hand.
There has been more than one tale circulating across the internet of how someone has been fired, harassed, or reprimanded for blogging about work. boing boing came up with a list about a month ago of companies who "fired, threatened, disciplined, fined or not hired people because of their blog."
Here are some of the blogs that cost people their jobs, and posts that talk about the experience.:
Diary of a Flight Attendant: Queen of Sky Story Summary
eclecticism: Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Ninetininezeros: the official story, straight from the source
Dooce: Collecting Unemployment
The Sarcastic Journalist: Freedom of Speech
Troutgirl: Shitcanned
I just came across a list, which includes many of those bloggers above, and others who where fired for their blogs: Update 1: List of Fired Bloggers
In Joe Gordon's case, the experience seems to have had a Happy ending. Comic book chain Forbidden Planet has hired him. Because of his blog...
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