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CibbuanoWarning: Blogging may cost you your job. – Part 3
September 20th 2006 00:14
Step one for covering yourself against a workplace bitching blog backlash is to know your workplace. Some companies like to be big dark faceless corporations. They don’t like the idea of any information and activities being leak for what goes on between their four walls. It’ll probably feel like working for the KGB, however, if you value your job it really isn’t worth the risk of leaking any identifiable or specific information. Bigger companies will have public relations sectors that will actively bust arse to keep a publicly clean and squeaky image.
The corporate policy of your company will be detailed in your employment contract and you should pay particular attention to any intellectual policy clauses in there as they may hold some guidance against any bitchy blog posting or other public leaking of corporate information.
Blogging can be much like any other non-work related activity that people may find themselves doing during their employment hours. When it comes to lay time, some people like to browse porn, other like to keep up their blogs. Non-productive hours are part of everyday work life. We are not machines and we can’t go nose to the grindstone for 8 hours straight, 5 days a week. I’d say that most employers would be aware that a portion of the time that you are at work is going to be non-productive and will be spent in general chit chat, checking emails and other miscellaneous tasks.
That said, having your boss round the corner to find you intensely typing away at your latest blog entry is not a good look. If being sneaky and blogging at work is your game there are actually some products that are available for quickly getting yourself out of a bad situation. The Web Fire Escape is a simple device which has been designed to allow readers of weblogs to instantly replace a Web Fire Escape equipped blog with an alternate work-safe site or a fake word processor or spreadsheet application.
Then there is hardware such as the StealthSwitch
It hides in the shadows and just a light tap of your toes will let it work its magic. Based on your preferences, it can hide the current window, hide all windows, or hide all windows except for specified windows. Not just minimize, mind you, but totally erase from your screen. The Stealth Switch can also mute the sound, hide the taskbar, hide the desktop icons, and password protect the restore function.
If you want to blog from work, test the waters and see what is kosher in the workplace. If you feel the need to bitch about work I'd suggest venting on a site such as BossBitching rather than tarnishing your blog with nasty titbits.
The corporate policy of your company will be detailed in your employment contract and you should pay particular attention to any intellectual policy clauses in there as they may hold some guidance against any bitchy blog posting or other public leaking of corporate information.
That said, having your boss round the corner to find you intensely typing away at your latest blog entry is not a good look. If being sneaky and blogging at work is your game there are actually some products that are available for quickly getting yourself out of a bad situation. The Web Fire Escape is a simple device which has been designed to allow readers of weblogs to instantly replace a Web Fire Escape equipped blog with an alternate work-safe site or a fake word processor or spreadsheet application.
Then there is hardware such as the StealthSwitch
It hides in the shadows and just a light tap of your toes will let it work its magic. Based on your preferences, it can hide the current window, hide all windows, or hide all windows except for specified windows. Not just minimize, mind you, but totally erase from your screen. The Stealth Switch can also mute the sound, hide the taskbar, hide the desktop icons, and password protect the restore function.
If you want to blog from work, test the waters and see what is kosher in the workplace. If you feel the need to bitch about work I'd suggest venting on a site such as BossBitching rather than tarnishing your blog with nasty titbits.
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