Just a sec: editing my own post for slanderous insensitivity

Please wait while I edit a pre­vi­ous post for slan­der­ous insensitivity.

But really. I posted about an expe­ri­ence I had today, at work. The Inter­net is rife with exam­ples of peo­ple get­ting fired (extreme result, yes) for post­ing about work on their blogs. For the most part they either work(ed) for huge, mono­lithic, head-up-their-butt com­pa­nies (see: guy who got fired by Microsoft for post­ing pho­tos of their load­ing dock), or they totally rip on their boss and their boss’ dog Fluffy.

I had an expe­ri­ence where some­one I think is rep­re­sen­ta­tive of much of the coun­try made a com­ment I just could not believe, it was so dumb. I wrote a post that explained the cir­cum­stances, the com­ment, and my reac­tion to it.

My orig­i­nal post did not hide the fact that I worked, and that this expe­ri­ence took place at work, and while this was not within my work con­text, nor with the clien­tele I work with… well, I can see that as a rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the place I work (you all read ear­lier posts in this blog, right? Is it too late to be vague now?) I should maybe just shut the hell up. After all, a poten­tial client might see me rip­ping on some poor inno­cent I met in the com­pany cafe­te­ria, and decide they don’t want to take the same risk, tak­ing their busi­ness else­where. I can under­stand that this would be a bad out­come, which is why I edited the post in ques­tion to remove any trace of my work envi­ron­ment. I just abstracted it all to pieces. I hope it still makes sense.

And yet.

Stu­pid peo­ple deserve to be called on being stu­pid, although not in a slan­der­ous way (unless they are our #$@!%!! President).

I’m a really nice, rea­son­able guy.

I spend almost half my wak­ing hours at work, and I’m not sup­posed to blog about it?!!

There are prob­a­bly bet­ter things to do, I just have to find them.