My boss discovered my secret blog

It seems like it isn't so much "discovered" as that she made the boneheaded decision to talk to the press for an article about the blog that would include her real name and the name of her company.

Doesn't like every company ever tell you that you are not permitted to make statements to the press on the behalf of the company, and that all press inquiries should be directed to the PR department? I thought this was too obvious to need stating, but I guess it isn't to everyone. Not to say you should never do it of course, just that if you do, you should take appropriate precautions and be prepared for the potential consequences.

> I found myself with an offer to appear in, and be photographed for, a Sunday Times article about blogging.

So, the “boss discovered”? In any case, this seems like another facet of the impression of privacy and solitude at the keyboard, made possible by one’s apparent separation from “real life”. Another facet is that of people whose online behavior is far from what they would exhibit in person, or in a public meeting. _Caveat poster_

> A few months later I was back in the same office, being made redundant. I can’t be sure the two events were linked, but if you have to let someone go, the person who wrote about how boring her job was might not be the worst choice. “Why are you still here if you hate it?” the HR manager had hissed at me one day in passing. It was a fair question, and unhappy as I was, my redundancy felt like a fair cop.

> I didn’t try to find another legal job: my indiscretion had made me unemployable in the sector. That was terrifying, but also galvanising: I needed to find another way of earning my living, fast. Blogging had showed me that living could, just possibly, be writing: 12 years later, it turns out it is.

For the record, everything work related I ever complain about on here refers to a former employer.

“My boss discovered my blog” is an interesting way to phrase “I disclosed my blog to the press using my real name”.

On the bright side she wasn’t claiming disability then posting pictures of her jet skiing in Aruba. That seems to happen a lot in NYC, particularly among the police and transit workers. You think they would notice their buddies on the front page of the NY Post and not do that.

A lot of relationships end out of boredom. And a lot of people end them that way, with chatter about little infidelities here and there.

Nothing acknowledging the fact that she was literally stealing from her employers because she wrote extensively on a personal blog during company time?

A world in which one can't even expose the fact that your boring job is boring without fear of losing your livelihood is a world not worth building and the right of management to run their company like their own tiny kingdom is not worth protecting especially if 99% of the people voting on the ground rules are the peons.