Getting fired cause of a blog?

I was reading some articles online about the history of blogging, and I came across a lot of incidents where bloggers are getting fired cause of what they write in their blogs. I thought the internet was a place for freedom of speech? I know I am guilty sometimes of bitching and complaining about work, but what other place can I do that at? I think some bloggers out there are stupid. They put their real names, and they even have their domain names as their full name. They describe their work environment and the name of the company they are at. I find it quite ridiculous. I mean if you want to talk about your work and you want to bitch about it, than be a little bit more considerate. You are putting the reputation of your employer and company on the line. If you do have a problem with your job, than go talk to your boss about it! No work environment is perfect. If you want a jacuzzi, sauna, and gym at your work place, than expect to be the company’s slave at that point.

I am not defending companies nor am I defending bloggers. I think blogging is a great tool to communicate with the world. I also think that blogging is a truthful exaggeration of one’s life. I don’t want to say I fear for my job cause of this blog. I could care less. I have nothing to hide. If I have a problem I will spill it out. I actually got a few people asking for my resume and want to hire me due to my writing style, thoughts and my web design talent. Anyways, I do not need a blog to complain about an incident at work and not do anything about it but bitch and complain here. Most of the time I don’t even talk about what goes on at my work. I don’t find it amusing enough to write about. It gets quite boring. I cannot exaggerate the truth enough to keep one reading my post to the end when it comes to work.

I also read about employers who do an extensive search for personal life style and way of thinking of a candidate to be interviewed. Do I think it is a right thing to do? It depends on the company and the employer. At times I do find it necessary to know more about a person before hiring them. I think it is great to find out that they can write and have a hobby. I am the type of person that I would rather hire someone based on their thinking, their lifestyle, their thought process, and the way they view life. Work is not everything; there is also life that effects work! Even if I had current employees I would want to read about their life. To understand why one day they are not happy and moody and not performing their best at work. I would just want to know about the reasoning behind someone’s actions. I cannot judge a person on their mood of that day. Something must have happened. They don’t want to talk to you about it, but why not read about it? I mean it is all based on the level of confidence between employer and employee and also about the type of employer. Is the employer tolerant? Compassionate? Down to earth person who understands that work is not everything and life is a bitch?

So for how long can employers tolerate bloggers? Is blogging the worst thing that has happened to the free speech world or the best psychological employment hiring method? I rather pick the latter because I rather know about the truth behind people’s actions, their thinking, and not be shocked at their behavior on certain days. No one is perfect, and truthfully, I would rather read an employer’s blog and understand them a bit better my self.

I have read some employer’s blogs out there, and holy smokes, they are not evil dictators as they try to portray them selves to be at work!

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