Friday, July 01, 2005

Warning: Your clever little Blog could get you Fired

Warning: Your clever little blog could get you fired
By Stephanie Armour / USA TODAY

Like a growing number of employees, Peter Whitney decided to launch a blog on the Internet to chronicle his life, his friends and his job at a division of Wells Fargo.
Then he began taking jabs at a few people he worked with.
His blog at http://gravityspike.blogspot.com did find an audience: his bosses. In August 2004, the 27-year-old was fired from his job handling mail and the front desk, he says, after managers learned of his Web log, or blog.
His story is more than a cautionary tale. Full article here.