insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
| She gave out info.
Good thing she is canned. Now other employees of that stupid company and others will think twice about discussing work on their blogs. Yea you can argue that what she gave out was benign or completely obvious, but if her company wanted to post that info, they would have done it on their main page. If businesses can't force employees to keep business within the company than the business world is going to be in trouble. What if another company with a competing page saw that and say they were using jsp too. They may have had a jumpstart on switching over to catch friendster in the speed increase that php gave them. Anyone supporting this chick is just stupid. She has a propensity to leak company info, I hope she no longer can employed anywhere. |
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Trivista
join:2003-11-11
Longview, TX | The fact that they use php is on their front page. If they wanted to hide it they should have configured their webserver to hide it.
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If the company did not wish their employees to discuss their work and non-confidential information about work, they should have a clear policy stating as much.
This is clearly a very poor decision made by someone who doesn't understand the dynamics of Internet communities: ie the CEO of Friendster. Kind of ironic for a company whose business is the Internet communities.
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
1 edit | You can't be serious? It has nothing to do with the CEO not knowing what a blog is. So by your thinking anything is ok as long as its on a blog. It doesn't matter how serious the information she gave out was, its the fact that she had no problems posting private company business without asking permission. If it was left to continue, sooner or later something dammning would probably have been posted. A member of this site should be fully aware of issues like this. Why do you think employees of companies will post anonymously about things. If their bosses knew they were posting company business on this site, those guys would be canned. Ignorance is no excuse! |
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devrandom
I got a pot, full of random stuff here
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join:2003-06-28
| Blogging works like going to a podium and giving a speech. You don't know who is listening, but you sure know that its a lot of people out there.
When you're up at a podium, you're going to try and make yourself and whatever you do shine.
Joyce has stated she loved Friendster; if you go through her posts she actually took heart to the Friendster team. If anything negative would have happened at Friendster, i'm sure she would have dealt with it on her own. She is a smart girl, and would have known what it meant to post something negative (a canning for those who are not following).
I honestly don't see anything against Friendster on her blog..up to her termination (which meant any obligations that she had became moot unless a post-NDA or such was in effect)..i'm only seeing how much she loved that company up to the point of her getting thrown out.
You can't really judge what is right and wrong since its a subjective issue-, only what your company tells you, and some of what you define; and when there is no policy, its free for all. Or so a lot of people say. Self-moderation. Abuse the freedom, get the chain yanked..yadda yadda.
I'm lucky a lot of my work set conditions for blogging. I also show some self-restraint for personal items, and projects which I partially lead.
Public speaking is like that. Self-restraint. Joyce showed all of those requirements, and still got canned. They just got rid of a fantastic engineer they didn't want to pay for. |
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tcp1
Premium
join:2000-04-17
Herndon, VA | reply to insomniac84
Giving out info?
Telling somebody that your website runs PHP or JSP is about as secret as telling somebody standing on the side of the road that your car is red. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN
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She didn't show anything that you speak off. And now you add as long as you love the company its ok. Simple fact is, if your place of work doesn't tell you what's ok to post online, by default nothing is. To stick up for her is just plain dumb. Its this simple, don't talk about company business without permission. |
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ravenbase200
join:2004-04-24
Concord, NH | you need your sleep |
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