Have you been dooced?

Article on Yahoo! news about bloggers who've been fired from their jobs. Here's the Link. The article is promoting the use of the word "dooce" (verb) to describe someone who's been fired for blogging, the term originating at dooce.com by Heather Armstrong. Armstrong was fired for what she wrote on her blog, which is why she coined it. I don't know if it will catch on, but I'm willing to give it a shot.

Now, the only jobs I bother complaining about are my temp jobs, but I'm done with them. They did inspire some great sarcasm, though. I do have an irritating co-worker I blogged about, but I took it down because she turns out to be slightly less irritating than I thought. And I'd like to give her a better chance. Somehow having something written down about a person or a thing, and being reminded of it daily, isn't a way to be open-minded.

*BUT*

I don't think a company should fire a worker for blogging about work. What we do on our own time, in our own space, with our own equipment, is our business. No employer can stop an employee from talking about work outside of work (well, maybe the NSA or CIA....). Sure there are certain particular we know not to divulge--they're usually written into our contract--but complaining about a management decision or a company policy? C'mon!

Let freedom of speech reign. That's what blogs are for. Er, but I won't be putting my real name anywhere on this blog. In spite of my relative fearlessness, I'm not wanting any supervisor of mine to google me. I still value my privacy, even if it's only from the people I work with. (Hence the "adult content" sticker: You have to be a JU member to read this stuff, as far as I know.)

If my company fired me for blogging--and I doubt they will as I have few bones to pick with them, ergo few things to complain about--I'd not want to work for them, anyway.

Now if my irritating co-worker got fired for blogging, I might be able to swallow that.

Whoops, there I go being un-open-minded again.

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