Another Blogger Fired

Jeremy C. Wright of Ensight was just fired from his job for blogging:

But, they fired me.

My Posts About Work

What did they fire me for? This post:

Getting to surf the web for 3 hours while being paid: Priceless.
Getting to blog for 3 hours while being paid: Priceless.
Sitting around doing nothing for 3 hours while being paid: Priceless.
Installing Windows 2000 Server on a P2 300: Bloody Freaking Priceless.

Again, the reason wasn’t that I was insulting (though I guess it could be interpreted that way. It certainly wasn’t in the best taste when viewed from my employer’s perspective). It was that I was “divulging company secrets".

This is why I don't talk about my work very often on this blog. Of course I would never divulge any sensitive data on this public blog, but why risk it when something as innocuous as that post can get someone fired?

The upshot is that I now know who Jeremy is and I have subscribed to his feed (I am sure he isn't that excited about that though).

Comments

[John Federico]

I'm going to guess that it was more than just this single post that got Jeremy fired.

I'm not suggesting that he didn't perform his job well or anything like that, but someone who wasn't a fan of Jeremy's probably just saw this as an opportunity and decided to take advantage of it.

[Jeremy C. Wright]

Yeah, it was probably political with this being a decent reason to fire me. Ah well, I'm moving on. Oh, and I'm VERY honoured to have a new subscriber! :D

[David]

I dunno, imo, I could absolutely see where he would get fired over that post. You can't just tell the world that you don't do anything at work for several hours every day and not have repercussions.

[nunya]

At first, I thought there was more behind it than that. Why? Because one would not get fired for making a silly comment on a public forum or even "divulging company secrets" (this being that he was installing 2000 on a p2 machine). Than I thought, with todays asshole managers or paranoid company, they could have contrwed this as bad publicity. But all over one thing? No. And, he has technically resigned. So instead of them taking heat over this, they baited him into resigning giving him a piddly months severance. All because of their paranoia. They didn't want the publicity from this. That is my take on it anyway. This is the biggest reason why not to weae ties. It cuts blood circulation to the brain. Yes, it may get you to be a top peckerhead at a company, but it sure isn't worth knowing your a company whore when you go to sleep at night.

[Todd Charske]

The "technically resigned" thing is for the company by the way not for him even if that's what they say. The reason, If someone "resigns" or even "technically resigns" they can not file for unemployement. Well I guess they could file for it but resigning makes it much hard to actually receive any money. Not to bring the a. . . hole managers into it again but I did.

Todd Charske