Should a witty blog about your job get you fired?
The short answer to this question, is YES, you fucking moron!
"The restaurant server predicted her own demise when she posted these words: “Well, here goes suicide by blog. Stay tuned for the fallout."
Good call. One might almost say, prophetic.
The stupidest thing any blogger can do is blog about their real life, their real job, or their real employer's customers.
Mary seems to disagree.
"The terms “well-written” and “blog” usually don’t coexist locally. But this KU journalism graduate and Wichita native followed the axiom for novice and professional writers alike — write what you know."
Unless you plan on being an unrelenting, enthusiastic shill for who you work for and what you do for a living, this is the dumbest fucking advice in the world.
If you create a blog for the sole purpose of making fun of your job, your employer, and your employer's customers, don't get your panties in a twist when your employer finds out about your blog (as they almost always will) and decides that your continued employment and blogging are not compatible with their corporate strategy and goals.
Ever heard of a "firewall"? It's the thing that protects your PC from getting hacked by the "evil doers".
Bloggers need to have a firewall between the shit they say on their blogs and who they are in real life.
If you don't establish and enforce this firewall of anonymity, there are only 2 outcomes:
1. Your ability to freely express yourself online will be constrained by the fear of real world repercussions such as possible loss of employment, alienation of family, and other unpleasant consequences.
2. You will blatantly flaunt the above precautions, your friends, family and employers WILL find your blog, you WILL be fired, you WILL be denied future opportunities, and you WILL be sorry you every peed in the Internet pool.
If, like me, you view blogging as a creative outlet where you get to say whatever the fuck you want to say because you need to blow off steam, DO NOT follow the advice of Mary Sanchez, local Social Media gurus, or anyone else who uses terms like "Web X.x", "personal branding" or "off the keyboard".
But if you want to turn the mythological "Permanent Record" into a reality and hand it all of your info on a Silver Platter, then by all means, "blog about what you know". I'm sure future employers will be chomping at the bit to hire you when they easily find out that you made derogatory blog posts that you thought were "witty and insightful" about your former employer and their customers.
Because what employer doesn't want it's employees undermining their business and driving away their customers?
