mrkipling

I also live in London and can fortunately say that my experiences are more in line with the author's than yours.

> And like someone pointed out, English is not his first language.

I didn't register that part, no. In that case his use of English is fine. The emoticons, not so much for a blog post.

I still don't agree that writing this sort of post is professional or will do him any favours.

This is exactly what I was going to say. Writing a blog post riddled with grammatical errors (and emoticons!) slagging off your former employer is not a good look as far as future employers are concerned.