Ouch!

OK, I know it's wrong to laugh at others' misfortune but this just made me giggle:

“One of my employees created a MySpace page,” says Wilson Solovic. “He also set me up with one. Over the holiday break I knew he was going to propose to his girlfriend. So I went on his page to see if he had blogged about it. Sure enough, he had a blog entry titled ‘She Said Yes.’ So while I was there I decided to read a few more entries. That’s when I found one talking about his ‘chicken s____’ bosses and how he hates his job and so on and so forth. I was livid.

I know many young workers struggle to separate private life from business online, but was it really hard for this kid to figure out that if he got his boss on MySpace, he should probably watch what he said? Seesh!

Comments

[Phil Gerbyshak]

Wow, that's really dumb. Amazing dumb. But whatever. MySpace is totally private, right? :)

[Jonathan]

As a Boss, does the opinion of your employees provide you with an indication of how you are doing as a boss? Is a holding a good opinion of you in his job description?
or Maybe he has a valid point? Maybe ones sensitivity to the opinion of others clouds judgement, and good decision making? If reading a comment like that makes you Livid, maybe you do suck as a boss?

Or is it irrelevant. If my boss sucked, I might not really care if he learned of my opinion.
But If he did, I'd probably think it more useful to talk to him about it directly.
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if a little indirect criticism pushed my boss over the edge (more than once), I'd probably already be actively looking for another job..

so??

[K Guerin]

While people may be entitled to their own opinions, it is not in best taste to criticize one's employer in the absence of said employer. Also, the employee set the employer up with a myspace page. Natural curiosity would lead the employer to the employee's page. So, it wasn't too bright for the employee to do that if he had information posted that he didn't want his employer to see.