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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t just find a way to work with his abilities in that sense instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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