Fired bloggers’ revenge against bosses
By Louisa Hearn
When it comes to hiring and firing, the boss traditionally gets the last word. But the tables may be set to turn as disgruntled ex-employees find a powerful new voice in community forums and online diaries.
Trailblazing this movement are perhaps not surprisingly the very staff who were fired for writing personal online diaries or “blogs” in the first place.
In many cases, the writers unwittingly included comments about their workplaces in their daily web diaries that later attracted the wrath of superiors.
Mark Jen, the blogger who gained notoriety for confessing a little too much about his new job at Google only to lose it soon after, is one such example. In response to being fired from the web search engine company, his blog attempts to make sense of Google’s actions.
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Corra found this an interesting article. The article is written about circumstances that may be more complex than they first appear.
On one hand Corra has always been ambivalent about employers monitoring their employee’s social networking sites. On the other, if you are foolishly bad mouthing your employer or, as they say, “putting their business on the street,” then you maybe deserve to get fired.
Corra suggests employers conduct background checks in order to determine behavior pattern and screen out those who may not fit in with your business environment. It is much easier to filter through the preemployment screening process than to dismiss someone after they have been established. For one thing, there are compliance issues, and for another it is always more expensive to fire someone who has even relative tenure.
Disgruntled employees often reveal this sensibility long before they do any damage to your business. Psychological profiling may also help weed out the undesireables. But the rule applies that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
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