Just found this tidbit in New York Magazine: Woman Torn Between Unpaid Historical Fiction Blogging and Job at Chase. Weird. She was fired from her banking job for blogging about historical novels on her own time. Apparently bankers aren't allowed to blog about anything! Sounds like a free speech issue to me.
Wonder if the blogger is a member here?
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HF Blogger fired from day job
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Oh FGS. It's not like she's off hot in the political arena using her real name or something. I fail to see how a blog, or writing fiction qualifies as posting online personal speeches.
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Super lame.
If she couldn't blog about banking or something like that I could understand. I mean its tied to her job...but dude, its historical fiction, which according to a few comments people have no idea what it is anyway.
I could see teachers getting in trouble for their blogs. I'm super careful what I say on mine since its linked to my school's webpage. I could see mine being yanked or me being spoken to before the other lady.
If she couldn't blog about banking or something like that I could understand. I mean its tied to her job...but dude, its historical fiction, which according to a few comments people have no idea what it is anyway.
I could see teachers getting in trouble for their blogs. I'm super careful what I say on mine since its linked to my school's webpage. I could see mine being yanked or me being spoken to before the other lady.
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It worries me that an employer should have so much power over an employee's personal life. I can understand that businesses don't want their employees talking about work related issues online, but this seems too much of an infringement of freedom. I wonder how many of the bank's employees are on Facebook or Twitter? And how they would run their business if they sacked them all.
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Wow! Yet another reason I'm glad I'm not a banker!
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Chase recently bought our mortage. In the last two years, both my credit cards have also been subsumed by them. They're a corporate monster stomping on the world and living off fees. I hope she wins her lawsuit.
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