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Mixing Blogs With Business

Warning: Your clever little blog could get you fired
By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY

Like a growing number of employees, Peter Whitney decided to launch a blog on the Internet to chronicle his life, his friends and his job at a division of Wells Fargo.

Then he began taking jabs at a few people he worked with.

His blog, gravityspike.blogspot.com, did find an audience: his bosses. In August 2004, the 27-year-old was fired from his job handling mail and the front desk, he says, after managers learned of his Web log, or blog.
Ref. https://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-06-...logs-usat_x.htm

Business Blogs Mixing

First off, you should never, ever write about your place of employment in the public forum. Its and unwritten rule that you don't talk about work on the inside to the public on the outside. If you decide that you are clever enough to get away with it, then you should use a completely anonymous user name and not post at work. You cant be tracked with false info and posting from home. This guy was either a dim bulb or was very sloppy, or maybe both.