News Suicide by Blogging?

**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?

06-11-2009, 11:33 AM	Topic Starter
gblowfish Be Kind To Your Pets Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Glorious Independence, MO Casino cash: $16886178 VARSITY	Suicide by Blogging? 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?
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