See Nick Jesdanun's article in AP: "Firms Take Action Against Worker Blogs." Not much new here, but Nick is helping to take this story to the mainstream. Excerpt:
"Flight attendant Ellen Simonetti and former Google employee Mark Jen have more in common than their love of blogging: They both got fired over it. Though many companies have Internet guidelines that prohibit visiting porn sites or forwarding racist jokes, few of the policies directly cover blogs, or Web journals, particularly those written outside of work hours.
"Simonetti had posted suggestive photographs of herself in uniform, while Jen speculated online about his employer's finances. In neither case were their bosses happy when they found out.
"'There needs to be a dialogue going on between employers and employees', said Heather Armstrong, a Web designer fired for commenting on her blog about goings on at work. 'There's this power of personal publishing, and there needs to be rules about what you can or cannot say about the workplace'."
"Flight attendant Ellen Simonetti and former Google employee Mark Jen have more in common than their love of blogging: They both got fired over it. Though many companies have Internet guidelines that prohibit visiting porn sites or forwarding racist jokes, few of the policies directly cover blogs, or Web journals, particularly those written outside of work hours.
"Simonetti had posted suggestive photographs of herself in uniform, while Jen speculated online about his employer's finances. In neither case were their bosses happy when they found out.
"'There needs to be a dialogue going on between employers and employees', said Heather Armstrong, a Web designer fired for commenting on her blog about goings on at work. 'There's this power of personal publishing, and there needs to be rules about what you can or cannot say about the workplace'."
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