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The Cargo Cult of Business » Getting fired for Blogging

Getting fired for Blogging

Published on 5 Aug 2005 at 12:21 am | No Comments | Trackback
Filed under And Stock Options For All, Technopolitical, Blogosphere, Business and Corporation Related, Information Technology.

Am I missing something here? Shouldn’t this all be very simple? If you’re using your employer’s resources, time, network connection, computer system, you follow their rules. If you’re using your own, you follow your rules. (which should also include legal issues such as NDA, libel, fraud, slander, etc.)

The only grey area I can see is this question of whether you’re representing the company or not. That needs to be made clear in the same way that if you are active in a political party or a civic group you wouldn’t reference your employer and if you’re speaking at a trade association etc. you might or might not depending upon company approval, and if you’re negotiating with a supplier, you definitely are. This seems to me to one of those areas where traditional "world of atoms" rules are entirely adequate and the technology aspect of it is largely superficial.

On the other hand, if you have an employer who will fire you for the difference in appearance, you’ve got bigger problems and you’ll have to work it out for yourself whether you want to work for someone with such a superficial understanding of the dynamics of business and technology. It might at first seem smart to "go along to get along" and perhaps that is a viable short term strategy, but I think these things all come out in the wash, and eventually an employer hung up on superficialities and/or in the habit of over reaching into an employee’s personal life is going to be a bigger problem than finding a new job.

-- John
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