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Old 06-11-2009, 12:06 PM   #5
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Originally Posted by gblowfish View Post
Should blogging about your job, even if you do it anonymously, give cause for termination if your employer discovers the blog and doesn't like it?

Interesting article in today's KC Star's website:

http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/1245713.html

Girl named CJ wrote a blog about her experiences as a server in a fancy Plaza KC restaurant. The restaurant manager found out about the blog, and fired her over it. She never mentioned the restaurant until after they whacked her. The restaurant was the Capital Grille.

Is this a first amendment issue? Does an employee have a right to blog about his or her workplace on the internet especially if they never mention the name of the place, or their real name, or any of the other employees real names? Or does a person undertake that at their own risk, "Suicide by Blogging" as CJ called it?

Whaddya think?
Moral to the story is......if you don't want people to find out about things, don't post shit up on the internet.

It also I guess depends what she was writing about and if she used an alias, how did the manager at Capital Grille find that it was her blog?
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