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Jan. 12th, 2005 01:34 pmThis blogging dismissal issue has really got to me. An article in the Guardian had a brief comment from one of its editors saying that he feels you shouldn't make defamatory remarks about your employers in a personal blog. How far will this go? What do you term to be a defamatory remark: " I had a crap day". Calling your boss a loon? Saying that you had a horrible customer in and you hope he dies of syphillis contracted from a child prostitute (which I did)?
I most certainly will not stop making mention of my working life. As it takes up such an obscene amount of my time what else is there to talk about if it doesn't figure in it somewhere? Admittedly I talk about work less than I did , but that's really because there's nothing to tell. I sit at a computer, I watch the sun on the Tate Modern at lunchtime, I sit at a computer, have meetings, go home. Life in the bookshop was much more varied and interesting and much easier to talk about.
I was once indirectly reprimanded for letting the staff under my management post comments about their living expenses on the group message boards. Admittedly it was during working hours, but one person at a terminal on a very quiet afternoon, whilst the others look after customers is no great loss when they are exercising their right to comment on how difficult it is making ends meet with a job in retail.
I most certainly will not stop making mention of my working life. As it takes up such an obscene amount of my time what else is there to talk about if it doesn't figure in it somewhere? Admittedly I talk about work less than I did , but that's really because there's nothing to tell. I sit at a computer, I watch the sun on the Tate Modern at lunchtime, I sit at a computer, have meetings, go home. Life in the bookshop was much more varied and interesting and much easier to talk about.
I was once indirectly reprimanded for letting the staff under my management post comments about their living expenses on the group message boards. Admittedly it was during working hours, but one person at a terminal on a very quiet afternoon, whilst the others look after customers is no great loss when they are exercising their right to comment on how difficult it is making ends meet with a job in retail.