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HF Blogger fired from day job

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HF Blogger fired from day job

Post by Margaret » Sun January 9th, 2011, 8:20 pm

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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Post by rockygirl » Sun January 9th, 2011, 9:13 pm

Ridiculous. Is this the United States or what?

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Post by Misfit » Sun January 9th, 2011, 9:43 pm

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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Post by Divia » Sun January 9th, 2011, 10:01 pm

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.
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Post by Libby » Mon January 10th, 2011, 8:19 pm

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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Post by Michy » Mon January 10th, 2011, 9:20 pm

Without knowing more of the details, I would say that the only legal grounds this company has for firing this employee is if she had signed an employment contract that prohibited her from such activities.

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Post by wendy » Mon January 10th, 2011, 10:26 pm

Wow! Yet another reason I'm glad I'm not a banker!
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Post by Michy » Mon January 10th, 2011, 10:38 pm

I don't know if that was the case, or not. I'm just guessing, since I can't think of any other reason why they would fire her on those grounds and expect to get away with it.

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Post by cw gortner » Tue January 11th, 2011, 5:35 pm

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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