News Suicide by Blogging? - Page 2

**gblowfish** · 06-11-2009, 11:33 AM

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?

**Slainte** · 06-11-2009, 01:33 PM

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So the next time you sit down for lunch with your office mates and feel very superior to your server, remember that she is probably happy, tan from her recent vacation, skinny, rich, and drunk.

Yep. That's pretty much the job description for professional waitresses, I guess...

KCChiefsMan · 06-11-2009, 01:36 PM

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Originally Posted by wutamess

Do waiters make that much to be considered rich to where she wouldn't feel the nudge of a 42 flat screen purchase? Am I in the wrong profession?

ya, at a place like that. I knew one guy who worked at....Plaza 5? or whatever that steakhouse on the plaza is called. He said he worked 3, 6 hour shifts a week and was pulling in $50K a year. Now that's not rich, but that's pretty damn nice.

**Gonzo** · 06-11-2009, 01:37 PM

I believe Mizzou is a "Right to work state."

Meaning you can fire anyone for any reason, you'd just better be ready to pay unemployment.

**The Franchise** · 06-11-2009, 01:52 PM

The chick comes off as a stupid bitch in her blog. **** her and the dildo she rode in on.

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