Most experienced employees know: Thou Shalt Not Blab About the Company’s Internal Business. But the line between what is public and what is private is increasingly fuzzy for young people comfortable with broadcasting nearly every aspect of their lives on the Web, posting pictures of their grandmother at graduation next to one of them eating whipped cream off a woman’s belly. For them, shifting from a like-minded audience of peers to an intergenerational, hierarchical workplace can be jarring.
from
“Interns? No bloggers need apply.”, an article by anna bahney for the new york times, on blogging about your workplace.
it’s a tricky subject. when i was at fnac, i didn’t have any trouble with that – the work was fun (at least in the beggining, but then i quit anyway) and not top-secret at all (though i did print some weird stuff…) and i even wore a tshirt saying “i’m blogging this” under the yellow-green jacket. they were ok with that.
now the situation has changed. i’ve skimmed through pages of non-disclosure information agreements in dutch that no-one really bothered to translate for me and signed them in the end. and i do realize that the information i’m dealing with is marked as confidential.
it all comes down to common sense, i think.
i wonder wether my office co-workers would mind knowing their shirt’s color is being blogged. :)
because for me, he’s ahead of everything.
