Wednesday, April 23, 2008
A blogger for the Washington Post was fired because he was photographed when he was drunk in public. The blogger ended up getting fired because of this. HR people across the board have been jumping on this ban wagon. With facebook and myspace becoming so popular and accessible almost anyone can go on it and look at pictures of you. It is common for many jobs to "creep" on thier employees to find out what they do in their spare time. Do you think we should have to hide or conceal our personal lives in order to protect and uphold a healthy repuation at work? Or you think this is a way to keep professionalism alive?
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Kyle: somehow I deleted my comment to your post. Here goes again. When a journalist gets drunk in public, then writes about it on a blog complete with a photograph and an expletive-filled rant, he puts his job in jeopardy and sullies his paper's reputation. I don't know if the Washington Post trolls its employees' Facebook and Myspace pages for evidence of misconduct. But at The Dispatch, where I worked for more than two decades, we had a policy that computers could not be used for misconduct, mischief or personal use such as buying and selling on eBay. One reporter was fired after he was discovered reselling books on a personal Internet site after he had reviewed the books for the newspaper. With the growing phenomenon of citizen journalism and the ever-expanding blogosphere, it would be prudent not to post potentially embarrassing information on the Internet, especially if you are known to the public through your journalism. I have been impressed this semester with the professionalism displayed by the class members on their individual blogs. I hope this helps.
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