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echo: barktopus
to: JaneL
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2005-02-10 15:33:20
subject: Re: Fired for blogging ( dooced? )

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I agree that one should use a bit of common sense while discussing your
company in a blog.  The Heather Armstrong  firing seemed a bit odd as
according to the ABC News article

"No names were used in her blog - not hers, her co-workers', nor her
company's. But she was terminated after company executives were tipped off
and read her posts, which included unflattering descriptions of many of
them"

I'd like to see her take them to court where they have to testify 'Yes I am
the  jackass supervisor that Heather wrote about" :-)

It looks like she was flustered by the ABC interview

http://www.dooce.com/

 ABC, easy as 123
Wednesday, 09 February 2005
UPDATE: The piece will run TONIGHT on ABC World News.

Right now they are filming me writing on my website and I feel like such a
dork. I am a dork. Dork dork dork. Dork. And I feel like such a dork.
Catiptla D Ork . I think he is doing a close-up and I'm a little sweaty. I
am probably shiny right now. Shiny and Such a dork. Dork . Dork. I wonder
if he can tell that I am typing Dork Dork Dork Dokrmoroimkruoiiujrrfjj. And
guess what? My sister just showed up with her twin boys. THE MONSTERS ARE
HERE.

So he just got a close-up of me typing and I never took typing in high
school so I'm pecking. Peck peck peck with three of my fingers. And now my
fingers are sweating. I am singing DORK in my head. I so hope that he gets
me typing dork and they show it on television beacuse that would be very
neat. Dork. That's all I can think of. How big of a dork can I be. Dork.
Dork.

Dork and Mindy. Donald Dork. Dork Dork Goose.

Now he is panning down to see my fingers typing. Will he see D O R K. That
I am one? A HUGE ONE. ALL CAPS. BABY. DO YOU HEAR ME NOW, JASON?

And so I will continue to dork beacuse he needs more footage. This is real
time dorking.

He totally just filmed me typing dork.

Knock knock. Who's there?

DORK.


"JaneL"  wrote in message
news:420bbb65$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Someone at a previous employer of mine was fired recently for posting some
> company material on her blog as an example of the stupidly simple things
> she
> was working on.  I think the word stupid says it all...
>
>

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