The fannish closet

[rachel_martin64]

So I'm talking with my boss's new henchman, or should I say henchwoman. Apropos of nothing, the henchwoman suddenly leaps up, goes to her computer, enters my real name into Google, and dramatically spins the monitor around and shows me the result

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[lilacsigil]

OMG incriminating evidence! Seriously, how childish. And, if you're not doing it on work time, what business is it of hers? There was an Australian guy who got caught chucking a sickie via his facebook, so maybe she read that and got ideas?

[rachel_martin64]

Ah hah, maybe she did get the idea from reading a story about this Australian guy.

No, I do not go near any fannish site or LJ during work hours, on my work computer. But if my fannish pursuits were found out, it wouldn't matter that I pursue them on my own time from my home. It would be the end of my career.

[lilacsigil]

Yes, there's definitely some careers where that is the case. It just annoys me that a creative hobby like fanfic is TERRIBLE and HORRIBLE whereas people who run around dressed up as sports mascots half-naked and drunk in winter are socially encouraged. (Though they may not be at your workplace!)

[rachel_martin64]

people who run around dressed up as sports mascots half-naked and drunk in winter are socially encouraged.

My workplace doesn't encourage it, no, LOL. But you're right, it's irritating that in the larger world, sports-obsessed fans are cool whereas we media fans are beyond the pale.

[dolimir_k]

Yowza!!

That's why I never use "Dolimir" in any work situation. If I forward mail from work, I do it to an account set up for just that reason.

I am dying to know where you work. I know I've said it before, but man, you have some reeeeeeeeeeeeally weird people working around you!!

[rachel_martin64]

I would make a mint writing a book about this place, agreed.

[chasingtides]

That's kind of creepy. I mean... I have no doubt that potential employers google me, but that doesn't mean I want them to do it in front of me.

[rachel_martin64]

It was like a bad scene from CSI. I am sure she was disappointed that I didn't blush, pale, stammer, sweat, scream, etc.

[chasingtides]

I know what happens when you put my name into Google (two pages from my college and a bunch of things that have nothing else to do with me). It helps that at 18 I started going by Mar - a very, very difficult word to search. (Mar is part of my name - it was merely by chance that I started to go by it - but it works wonders. If you search Mar + LASTNAME you get a lot of stuff involving people with my very, very common last name and the month of March, men named Mark, etc.)

I'd still be creeped out.

[rachel_martin64]

It helps that at 18 I started going by Mar - a very, very difficult word to search.

Smart move!

[st_aurafina]

How creepy, and yet how hilarious that she couldn't find anything. Clearly, she subscribes to the 'series of tubes' theory of the internet.

[rachel_martin64]

She thinks she's kewl because she knows about Facebook and MySpace. And there her knowledge base ends, LOL.

[uraniachang]

LOL, tell her she can get off the seat and let someone else have it, cause she must be from the stone-age if she never heard of LJ.

Good thing I don't have a MySpace and Facebook, and no boss that clearly has no life.

[rachel_martin64]

I'm quite happy that LJ is not widely known as a blogging service. Hell, I know plenty of people who think the internet begins and ends with AOL.