Comments on: Suggested Blog Reading – Thursday/Friday July 19th/20th, 2007 http://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/168 the website of a devastatingly handsome author, sporadic blogger, bbq junkie, and security strong man Fri, 21 May 2010 04:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: LonerVamp http://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/168/comment-page-1#comment-2375 LonerVamp Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:54:00 +0000 http://www.andrewhay.ca/archives/168#comment-2375 I agree with the gut feelings of the author of that post in that not that many people have been fired over blogs. I almost posted about this myself on my blog, but I'll use your comments as my soapbox. :) I don't think as many companies as were surveyed really have people actually reading emails for analysis, or have that many people fired for blog/board postings. It's an IM company giving the survey, most likely to companies who are already clients and thus a bit more concerned about email/messaging/blogs. And I bet the number of rightfully fired people due to postings is far smaller (I bet there's a lot of grey area or overly strict policies that a reasonable employee wouldn't think is fair). And so on... At any rate, this is why I don't talk about my current employer directly, ever. In fact, only people who know me IRL in this area know where I actually work. (Although careful bloggers watching the IP I use during the days may deduce it...of course!) :) FYI, today was a nicely technical day of links! Too bad Darknet is filtered at work (lame!). I agree with the gut feelings of the author of that post in that not that many people have been fired over blogs. I almost posted about this myself on my blog, but I’ll use your comments as my soapbox. :)

I don’t think as many companies as were surveyed really have people actually reading emails for analysis, or have that many people fired for blog/board postings. It’s an IM company giving the survey, most likely to companies who are already clients and thus a bit more concerned about email/messaging/blogs. And I bet the number of rightfully fired people due to postings is far smaller (I bet there’s a lot of grey area or overly strict policies that a reasonable employee wouldn’t think is fair). And so on…

At any rate, this is why I don’t talk about my current employer directly, ever. In fact, only people who know me IRL in this area know where I actually work. (Although careful bloggers watching the IP I use during the days may deduce it…of course!) :)

FYI, today was a nicely technical day of links! Too bad Darknet is filtered at work (lame!).

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