How To Avoid The Blog Firing
Believe it or not you can get fired for writing a blog and it’s called foolish blogging – let me explain. Employees are getting fired for wring blogs related to the company which is illegal if against company policy. Writing about things that may cause offense to someone in a blog bears the same consequence if you were to do it in public.
Most companies now have it in their policy that no employee shall share company information with the general public and this means in blogs too. This also applies to writing about your employer, boss or colleagues in the workplace that would be offensive or rude in anyway. This can be a sacking offence. In fact, simply writing a blog could be against company policy, particularly if the blog is about your job or your work. You will be amazed at how many will actually copy work content for their blogs to make them popular and if you do this and you are caught then you could be fired from your job.
Many have made their blogs well known and some even famous by committing the above offenses. Peter Whitney who was an employee at Wells Fargo was sacked for writing behind-the-scenes blog posts - his blog continues at gravityspike.blogspot.com
Delta Air Lines, Google and other major companies are firing and disciplining their employees because of the blogs they write containing comments relating to the workplace or saying wrong things about employers or disclosing confidential information about the company or an employee/employer that are against company policy.
If you are a blogger and you have a full time or part time job then you should read the following to avoid blog firing:
- Find out what your company policy says about blogging and if it is allowed before blogging about anything related to your work. Some Companies will not allow so it’s best to make sure.
- Don’t be a secretive blogger even behind the scenes; let your supervisor or manager know. A personal blog is bound to touch on the work place and you can still get into trouble if they find out your blabbing away about them or sharing confidential information about then in your blog.
I imagine this problem will get worse as blogging becomes a part of more and more people’s lives. Just remember that a blog is a live published website that everyone in the world can see so don’t post anything that you wouldn’t say in public.
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