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Should you talk about your days at work on your online blog?

Yes
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No
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Hey, it's my day at work. My problem. I can talk whatever I want on my personal website.
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75%
I would not if the company has a policy against it.
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25%
They should warn me first before firing me.
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Total votes : 4

Freedom of speech?

Postby MissLT » Thu Jun 16, 2005 1:39 am

Check this news out

If you're too lazy to check it then this is the brief info of that news:

"Like a growing number of employees, Peter Whitney decided to launch a blog on the Internet to chronicle his life, his friends and his job at a division of Wells Fargo. Then he began taking jabs at a few people he worked with. His blog, gravityspike.blogspot.com, did find an audience: his bosses. In August 2004, the 27-year-old was fired from his job handling mail and the front desk, he says, after managers learned of his Web log, or blog.

"Right now, it's too gray. There needs to be clearer guidelines," says Whitney, who has found another job. "Some people go to a bar and complain about workers, I decided to do it online. Some people say I deserve what happened, but it was really harsh. It was unfair."

Wells Fargo declined to comment, but a spokeswoman said in an e-mail that the company doesn't have a blogging policy. "


(quoted from the link above)

So, is it fair that you'd get fired for having your own blog online talking about your personal life including your days at work when your company doesn't even have a policy about blogs?
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