The other day I’m surfing around the internet (an activity that, in my youth, was called thumbing through a magazine) and I come across an article “Barista fired for blogging anonymously.” A few clicks away, another article, “Catholic School worker fired for supporting gay marriage on Facebook.” Then, following a link I came to “Judge orders man to take down his blog ‘Psycho Ex Wife.’ “
So let me clarify. Blogging may occur but not on topics about work, religion, sex, legal matters or ex-spouses. Well what the hell else is there? I’m sure sooner or later, every political post will be seized by the government and classified for the protection of national security.
Then
my posts will go like this; I woke up and did something for some time and then
went somewhere else where nothing interesting happened and now I am going to
bed.
To
add to the above infiltration of big brother, I work for a company that is
fairly tense about monitoring activities.
For example, I was instant messaging a co-worker named Karla. I accidently typed kala (full disclosure, I
have no idea what kala means, if anything, so if it something profane skip
ahead.)
Huge
blinking lights emanate from my computer along with a fairly reasonable approximation
of a police siren. Then I’m presented
with cap typed signs directing me to stop immediately. My vocabulary is not indicative of a
professional work environment.
I
also have the laptop camera paranoia thing going. Working from home does not promote following
the dress code (of which there is a manual) or any dress code for that matter.
Well
shit! (And I say that with my work laptop closed and my work phone charging in another room.)
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