{"id":176,"date":"2004-11-16T17:55:22","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T22:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=176"},"modified":"2004-11-17T14:42:36","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T19:42:36","slug":"rule-1-of-blogging-bloggin-and-work-dont-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Rule #1 of Blogging: blogging and work don&#8217;t mix!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems more and more people are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?p=104\">getting fired<\/a> for content they produce while running a blog.  Now, the latest high-profile blog-related firing is the <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsky.journalspace.com\/\">Diary of a Flight Attendant<\/a>.  After posing for pictures on her uniform and posting them to her blog, Ellen Simonetti was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Blog+backfires+for+flight+attendant\/2100-1030_3-5454483.html\">fired by Delta<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In the past, people expected flight attendants to be young and attractive,&#8221; Simonetti, a 29-year old blonde, said from her home in Austin, Texas. &#8220;Maybe I represent the flight attendants of the past.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it is Simonetti&#8217;s very 21st-century activities that she says prompted Delta management to ground her, suspending her from flying in September and then firing her a month later. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The photos posted were apparently provocative (though not obscene), so Delta may actually be somewhat warranted in doing this.  But this is a warning to those of us who run blogs: keep work out of it, or risk the unfortunate and often misguided wrath of the people who sign your paycheck.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, Delta sucks!  I&#8217;m all for pay for performance type arrangements, but <a href=\"http:\/\/queenofsky.journalspace.com\/?cmd=forward&#038;entryid=414\">having your peers evaulate your job performance<\/a>, instead of a supervisor?  That&#8217;s just asking to bring workplace politics and coworkers with axes to grind to a whole new level.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you blog, do NOT bring it to work!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}