There was a very interesting piece of news today in regards to a local bus driver that got fired as a result of a blog that he maintained. The situation basically was that the person was a newly hired as a bus driver and was currently within his 6 month probationary period. As it turns out, he thought that it would be a great idea to blog about his experiences about his new job to friends and family members. A point of note, this was a career change for him from a freelance writer.
People here know that during the past month or so snow has been horrible here and as a result the transit system was put to its knees in many ways. The person then blogged about his opinion of the situation such as how he thought there was a lot of disorganization in the company. As it turns out, the transit company found that offensive and therefore they fired him on that basis.
As it turns out, since he was in a 6 months probationary period the company could fire him for any reason similar to most other companies too. Interesting enough, if he had waited 6 months after and then wrote the post it would have been a semi different story. So that should make you think about the digital medium and sharing your thoughts if you are a newly hired person.
I found this interesting too as there are actually companies nowadays that promote blogging as a way to get further exposure for a company and our transit system here actually has a public blog. Makes you wonder why they didn’t just find a way to work with his abilities in that sense instead.