Re: I was fired for blogging

In article <shbsh1hsn4n2vibselcnu9dpbrrd95edc5@xxxxxxx>,
Ablang <HilaryDuffPerfectGirl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was fired for blogging

That should be expected. If you have a problem at work, you
are supposed to follow your chain of command. You committed
the cardinal sin of bypassing the chain of command and publishing
your gripes in public. That made the company look bad, and it
aired their "dirty laundy" in public. Worse yet, you use official
company logos when doing this.

The fact is that companies work very hard and spend lots of money
establishing and maintaining an image. If the company wants
information made public, they have a communications group to do
that. If they want pictures or logos published, they have a
marketing and public relations group to do that. But took matters
in your own hands, decided that these groups didn't know what
they were doing, and you published your own version of what
the airline was like. Rather than being shocked at being fired,
it looks like you did everything you could to invite it.

> Then, on Oct. 29, 2004, three weeks after I filed that discrimination
> complaint, I received a call from my supervisor. He advised me over
> the phone that my employment with Delta Air Lines had been terminated
> due to "inappropriate pictures in uniform on the Web."

You made public information without having it cleared by corporate
communications. That is a terminatable offense in most companies.

If you want to rant and rave on the Internet, do it on your
own time with your own computer, and keep your identity separate
from your job. Most of all, don't bite the hand that feeds you.

-john-

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