Stop Speaking Your Mind, You Are Fired!

It looks like another person has been fired for blogging. Now, this case is a little more cut and dry since (from what I can tell) the individual whom was let go published some internal information about what they were doing at Friendster.

At what began as a small story has blossomed to other sources who are all covering the story. Of course, this is not the first person to be fired for having a public weblog.

I was also just looking around and noticed that military people are blogging and it looks like they are being watched.

Oh, and if you have a job, you should be scared to speak your mind. So, if you have a problem with your employer's way of doing things, stand up for yourself and tell them. If they are a jerk and they fire you for taking up with an issue you have, you are better off working somewhere else.

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Shane Birley is a blogger, huge geeky nerd, web developer, poet, and creative writer based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. He is a partner at Left Right Minds, a web development, arts management, business blogging and on line marketing company.

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