"The culture of this company suggests
that those who are friends with the company's Enemy No. 1, are not around for long."
-- Anonymous@4:41 p.m., commenting on why they're reluctant to join my Facebook friends network. (I'm also on LinkedIn and Twitter!)
If you are that worried, set up privacy levels. It's kind of a no-brainer.
ReplyDeleteI like this tag line on your linked in: "national news media blogger"
ReplyDeleteI say screw it! I friended you. :-)
ReplyDeleteI've been your friend for awhile. But since only my friends can see my friends and I'm not friends with my bosses, it's not a problem.
ReplyDeleteAnd honestly, even if they saw it, I'm not worried. They know I read the blog. They do too.
However, I'd rather they not know I'm sometimes comment - or rather, what I comment. Thus, anonymous.
This just affirms why I hated working at USATODAY: The joint is/was nothing but a bad high school clique, all over again.
ReplyDeleteThis just affirms why I hated working @ USATODAY: the joint is/was nothing but a bad high school clique, all over again.
ReplyDeleteodds are you'll outlast Gannett!
ReplyDeleteI think that's ridiculous. If you do a good job or not, don't think they will base getting rid of you whether or not you are a facebook friend of Jim. If you're that scared tell them you are a spy!
ReplyDeleteI know all of us liberal elitists already heard this on NPR, but if you missed Monday's All Tech Considered, story was "Employees Take To Cyberspace To Vent"
ReplyDeletehttp://tinyurl.com/bqknpb - listen to the audio version, the story doesn't cover everything. The example that was brought up was a number of employees who complained about their airline on facebook were punished for it.
Any reason to avoid severance/unemployment costs!
I accepted your friend request. My department knows I read your blog -- in fact, 75% of them read it themselves. No statements one way or the other have been made at my TV station.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I also remain Anonymous in your comments, for plausible deniability, and I think I've only ever used my work computer once to comment on an article of yours.
2/12/2009 5:26 AM:
ReplyDeleteI heard that too -- was secretly hoping Gannettblog would get a mention in the story (but I got out of my car before it ended anyway).
signed, a former employee who is addicted to this blog.
Jim, has anyone who's accepted you as a friend on Facebook, or followed you on Twitter, ever had to deal with negative consequences at work as a result?
ReplyDelete5:30 pm: Not that I know of. But I'm kind of sure I would have heard about that by now.
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