Google Blogger Fired
Yet another blogger bites the dust for blogging about his job...
"Mark is no longer an employee at Google," a Google representative said in response to an inquiry Tuesday. Efforts to reach Jen for comment were not immediately successful.
Jen's departure comes less than a month after he joined Google as part of a wave of new hires and began recording his impressions of his new employer, including criticisms, in his blog.
[Source: CNet News]
I'm not sure what this guy wrote about Google and working there that got him fired. But I do know from previous stories of other people that it doesn't always have to be a good enough reason.
Anyway some people do take it too far and deserve to be fired for what they blog.
My stand on this whole issue is that if you're going to blog about your job, you might as well keep yourself anonymous and make sure no one from your company knows about it.
You never know what it is that you'll write that will piss them off.
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Posted by: Jenn at February 9, 2005 09:11 AMOops... I see it now. :-P hehe!
Look! You already got 3 comments on this entry!
Posted by: Jenn at February 9, 2005 09:13 AMlooool...
Let your boyfriend take a look at Google's job page. (Google > About Google > Jobs at Google)
Maybe he'll find something there.
Good luck :)
Posted by: MMM at February 9, 2005 11:48 AMHm, I don't know why I was surprised. Google hit me to be one of those very liberal companies who don't tether their employees... Ibsar.
Posted by: Roba at February 9, 2005 01:23 PMYeah me too.
I think this guy must have written about something really confidential or something really bad to be fired for it because I too have the impression that Google are a friendly and cool bunch of people.
