An interesting post regarding the attitude of a company called Cardone towards privacy is here. If you have time, why not take a look and make up your own mind?
Well, everything else aside, I do feel is it a bit silly to - on your first day at a new job - post publically about it on the Internet calling your new employers "mental" and "Jesus freaks".
I'd certainly be disappointed by someone's character if I employed them and found them doing that.
Exactly. Yes, they're mad fundies; but the OP clearly wasn't applying the standards of responsibility and disrection that even a reasonable employer would expect.
If he'd posted the comments from work, or made them to another colleague in the staff canteen then I would agree that this would have been improper behaviour. However, the fact that someone pays me a wage means I have to act the part while in work, or when it might reflect badly on their business. It does not allow them to dictate how I think or feel, nor give them to right to actively go out looking for anything bad I might say or think.
If you've posted it in public, and I can search for it, how are you going to *stop* me searching for it?
If you don't want something seen DON'T SAY IT IN PUBLIC. Ideally, DON'T SAY IT ON THE INTERNET. It's about the same as writing it on a postcard, handing it to the first passing stranger and asking them to give it to, oh, anyone really.
As Scott McNealy says re: Internet privacy: "You have none. Get over it."
Or, if you want to be a twat, use strong cryptography and only be a twat in front of people you trust completely.
...and if he had been saying that he thought that his employers were a bunch of incompetent fools, as demonstrated by, for example, their religious faith, then he would have been most unwise. He fell a very long way short of this, though. I definitely would not have said what he did in a public post. I would have advised anyone else against doing so also out of simple self-interest. That does not make their response in this case reasonable, however.
To be honest I agree the guy is an idiot to name his employers - La Petite Anglaise got fired and she didn't even mention the name of the people she was working for. That's unfortunate, though she did get a book deal out of it. But this guy strikes me as being a bit of an idiot.
That said, I wouldn't rush out and work for Cardone tomorrow, they sound like a pack of plonkers.
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I'd certainly be disappointed by someone's character if I employed them and found them doing that.
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If you don't want something seen DON'T SAY IT IN PUBLIC. Ideally, DON'T SAY IT ON THE INTERNET. It's about the same as writing it on a postcard, handing it to the first passing stranger and asking them to give it to, oh, anyone really.
As Scott McNealy says re: Internet privacy: "You have none. Get over it."
Or, if you want to be a twat, use strong cryptography and only be a twat in front of people you trust completely.
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That said, I wouldn't rush out and work for Cardone tomorrow, they sound like a pack of plonkers.
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