Company Edits...
So I received a phone call from the company's Chicago office this morning.
A man introduced himself as Eric (I knew of him, but was pretty sure that we have never talked before) and he proceeded to tell me that he had been doing a Google search on an abbreviation that our company uses pretty often. Most of the sites that come up for some reason are Chinese photo sharing sites, but somewhere on the second page of this Google search this blog happens to pop up. Well...
The first thing that popped into my mind was "Queen of the Sky". For those of you who don't know, "Queen of the Sky" was a Delta stewardess who wrote about her travels on her online blog. Well, not long ago she was fired from her job thanks to a corporate dude at Delta finding what she wrote (and some "inappropriate" pictures) on her blog and deciding that they didn't paint the company in the best of lights.
So, immediately, the first thing that goes through my mind is that I'm getting ready to be fired for any of the number of posts that I've written on here about the company1. There's me complaining about sharing an office, complaining about account managers, complaining about my boss and my boss's boss, even my boss's boss's boss. Basically me complaining about a lot of things, since we all know that... "The internet is a communications tool, used the world over, where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography with each other.2" I'm just doing what the internet was made for, complaining about something in anonymity.
Well, to my surprise Eric goes on to tell me how amazing my blog is, and how spot on everything is about the company, specifically my post about someone that we both share the pleasure of working with. Relieved, I let him know how surprised I was that he found it, how glad I was to be providing him with enjoyable reading material, and let him know that their will be more written about our shared acquaintance later on today.
I'm also planning on looking for a bit of code that prevent crawlers from looking at the site, and thus keeps you off of search engines most of the time. I like my job, I like the company and I like 99% of the people I work with, so it'd be a shame to be fired over something as petty and absurd as this should a suit come across it. Right? RIGHT?!
... not the best way to start a vacation.
1 I've gone back and edited old entries so you will no longer find the name of the company written anywhere on the site to deter from coming up in Search Engines.
2 Holden from Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back