Unrelenting optimism
May 25, 2006At the New York Times there’s an article on interns and blogging, two topics somewhat close to my own heart. Basically, everybody wants to be famous, even if it’s Internet famous, and dishing the dirt they get upon entering the world of industry seems to be the fast track to gaining notoriety. Some people have the typical “whaaaaaaa? you mean I can get fired for badmouthing co-workers, insulting my boss, and spreading all the juicy insider info?” Others don’t really give a damn and want to get fired since they know of the fame and fortune that await:
“Everybody I’ve read about that got fired for having a blog is on to such great things,” said Kelly Kreth, 36, who was fired from her job as the marketing and public relations director at a real estate firm in Manhattan last fall for blogging about her co-workers.
“I’ve had my online diary for six years, and it is very important to me,” Ms. Kreth said, calling the firing the best thing that happened to her. “It led to me opening my own business and making triple what I was making before.”
:scream:
Of course, you don’t hear as much about the people that screw up and quietly get fired, since they don’t tend to be the ones that get book deals. And still, as a wise man once said, no one’s ever been fired for blogging. They’ve been fired for being morons, or for their supervisors being morons, or for a shared level of moronity.