A couple of friends have had problems with employers finding and reading their blogs.
I realize this is a very real possibility, hence what you see here is the very bland white bread daily mediocrity level of my existance and not anything I really wouldn't want my bosses to know... Well at least most of it... I think...
But, I don't get it, why some people give a shit if you take 5 minutes to pop a post to your online journal when you're at work.
Personally, I've worked late and through countless lunches, always get my job done, am always ASKING for more work any time things are slow... I feel like my friends have probably done the same.
I guess some people have to work for bosses that are just miserable, nosy, vindictive, and petty.
Sad, really.
And if any of those people find and read this, I would like to take this opportunity to say:
Get a life (and stop judging and vicariously living everyone else's),
you pathetic monkey.
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7 comments:
Amen. Amen times 100.
Rhi
ah! Nice way to cover your ass! I have been getting harrassed as of late at work about my blogging...ya know, I don't bitch when my fellow co=workers go downstairs to smoke, shoot pool or play ping pong for a half hour. If I choose to sit at my desk for lunch then so be it.
Evil-
I wouldn't really say that this post covers my ass in any way. If someone is the type of person that has a problem with you doing something non-work related, it can happen whether you are basically a good employee and put in extra efforts or not. Personally, guess its time for me to cut off my work posting... Just because I feel like my direct boss won't have an issue with it doesn't mean that the whole company (which just got bought by a much larger company) won't start getting tracked.
You know...
When you're a fast typer, like I am, and you can slap up a post in a couple of minutes-- it doesn't seem like a big deal. But, the computers are theirs so they have the right to make the rules. The problem I have is when there is no policy-- written or verbal, when co-workers take information from your blog (that they are secretly reading) and share that information with other co-workers and even your boss-- whether they know it's true or not, and when a whole elaborate behind-your-back thing goes on to passively agressively block the blog activity. Why not just say something? The sneaky part makes me feel icky and also makes me wonder what else they are sneaky about.
Anon- Oh yeah. Agreed. I never get the whole rumor mill whispering thing, it makes me pretty sick and I'm so naive I'm usually the victim of it.
And, ultimately, the computers are theirs, our time in the office is theirs...
If I had the cash, I'd just buy the laptop, hit the wifi at Starbuck's on lunch and start taking the 15 minute breaks with the smokers to draft my posts.
Like it or not, if you don't own your own business, you're working for 'the man'. And if you do own your own business, you ARE the man, so you're working all the time anyway.
I got one for you. A co-worker told me and an outside vendor about their blog, then gets upset for people knowing what they wrote about. Go figure. If you don't want people you know reading it, then don't tell them about it. This co-worker ended up getting fired, not for what they wrote, but for the fact that they weren't doing their job and for the amount of time spent posting. They felt like their post here and there didn't amount to that much time, when it fact it counted for several hours over the course of the day..and that was in addition to taking breaks and lunches.
I used to be more "open" and personal on my blog until it was brought up at a job interview in a negative way. Now I am boring, responsible, etc...
That being said, I KNOW everyone I work with (at both jobs) reads my blog and since I'm a public employee, posts time stamped during work time is just not a good idea. (Of course, I hope they never know I can edit the time stamps).
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