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Sep. 17th, 2008 11:22 pmAs for internet monitoring, many companies do this these days. In fact I myself use the information gathered by such a service at my place of employment. The service in question monitors all media and brings in any news concerning us, our customers or our competitors. It really helps me keep up on the lastest rumor, event or news in the field.
Of cousre the question is, what do you do with this information? For the most part store it away in the memory bank, sometimes use it in a customer fitness for use meeting.
As of late the question of blogs as a source of information has risen. First off, the use of a blog as a news source is highly questionable, this journal as an example. For a business to take some sort of action based on the contents of the ramblings of Mojocatt, would put their judgement into serious question. I never include specific names in my journal for the sake of privacy, and that is mostly for safety, as someone could figure out quite a bit about me in these pages, they don't need to know my exact location. But this has now developed into a second purpose, to defend against my current and future employer using my free speech on the internet as a reason to discriminate against me.
But actulally my current employer is fairly cool about these things for a international mega-company. I certainly don't trust them about my blog, but then again I'd not loose sleep over my boss reading it. But my employer has been showing a great deal more interest in my private life today as compared to ten years ago. Mostly they cover it by saying that they care for me and my well being. On a local level this is actually true to a great extent, the leadership of where I work has been very caring towards my safety and well being. But the flip side of that coin is that this approach is good business, and you need to keep that in mind.
As for if I was put into a situation where I was presented with a fellow employee's online negative opinion, I see no real connection to my job. If the online rambling was a threat of violence rather than a negative opinion, this would be different.
The way I look at personal time and at work time is the two are separated by a brick wall. One is over there and one is over here. If you have anal sex with 50 people, drink a keg of beer, join the communist party, drive drunk, blog, smoke weed like cigarettes, and launch cats out of cannons at passing traffic...and it's the weekend...I DON'T CARE. I don't care, not my business to care as long as the person shows up and does his job on Monday.
Of cousre the question is, what do you do with this information? For the most part store it away in the memory bank, sometimes use it in a customer fitness for use meeting.
As of late the question of blogs as a source of information has risen. First off, the use of a blog as a news source is highly questionable, this journal as an example. For a business to take some sort of action based on the contents of the ramblings of Mojocatt, would put their judgement into serious question. I never include specific names in my journal for the sake of privacy, and that is mostly for safety, as someone could figure out quite a bit about me in these pages, they don't need to know my exact location. But this has now developed into a second purpose, to defend against my current and future employer using my free speech on the internet as a reason to discriminate against me.
But actulally my current employer is fairly cool about these things for a international mega-company. I certainly don't trust them about my blog, but then again I'd not loose sleep over my boss reading it. But my employer has been showing a great deal more interest in my private life today as compared to ten years ago. Mostly they cover it by saying that they care for me and my well being. On a local level this is actually true to a great extent, the leadership of where I work has been very caring towards my safety and well being. But the flip side of that coin is that this approach is good business, and you need to keep that in mind.
As for if I was put into a situation where I was presented with a fellow employee's online negative opinion, I see no real connection to my job. If the online rambling was a threat of violence rather than a negative opinion, this would be different.
The way I look at personal time and at work time is the two are separated by a brick wall. One is over there and one is over here. If you have anal sex with 50 people, drink a keg of beer, join the communist party, drive drunk, blog, smoke weed like cigarettes, and launch cats out of cannons at passing traffic...and it's the weekend...I DON'T CARE. I don't care, not my business to care as long as the person shows up and does his job on Monday.
