Bloggery in the work place... posted by Richard Seymour

It can get you fired apparently. Of course, if you consult the blog in question, you will see that its author was dismissed for maintaining a blog on his own personal time at his own expense and for the sake of entertaining and enlightening a devoted audience he had built up over the years. In it, he allegedly made comments that brought Waterstones, the company he worked for, into disrepute. On which note, I would like to point out that Waterstones is a filthy residue clinging to the epicentre of Satan's anal circle. Can't fire me.

But it seems, from what I have read, that what in fact happened was that a new manager started work at the Edinburgh branch at which the author worked and preached sci-fi. The new boss didn't like the look of him, decided he was the wrong face, shifted the Sci-Fi section to some reclusive section of the store and sent his employee packing to the outer regions of the cleaning room. Eventually, on some spurious pretext, he was fired. Encouragingly, there are tonnes of comments from present and former employees of Waterstones on his blog, offering solidarity and so on. No one has told them, apparently, that 'the class war is over'.

Via Ken McLeod and Charlie .