Yesterday, the top leaders of the company attended the Town Hall meeting. There was a strange feeling watching only a few people attend the event - the ones that were left in our building. Most of the employees moved to the new site.

Something came up when the VP and Country Manager was on stage: blogging about our company. It's true that I've read a significant amount of blogs against people in the workplace. Some were completely false (as I have witnessed some of the events they shared on the sites) and some were 100% true.

I got kinda scared when he said he hired someone whose job is to go through these blogs and find out what people (especially employees who left the company) are saying about us. I blurted out 'Oh shit!' as he might have found this blog too. (hehe!)

Last year, I got into a super small dilemma because of one of my blogs. I wrote about how I felt about this time when a manager was trying to recruit one of my subordinates and how I felt about him setting the wrong expectations with that employee. Okay, I was pissed. I was so furious when I wrote that post that I went on a rampage.

Fast forward some months later, that manager was kind of idle and he decided to google his name. It was so silly of me not to realize he can easily do this and find my blog and read that entry. I didn't bother giving him an alias! When he read it, the same employee he recruited (and eventually hired) told me that he read the blog entry and was very upset about it.

I was shocked. Damn, why didn't I give him a freaking alias? Why did I not set that post to 'private'? Why did I even write about him in the first place? Good thing he was travelling from one site to another (we have facilities all over the country). When he finally came back, I realized I should talk to him.

I went to his desk and told him we should talk. He was nice as usual and he said it's water under the bridge. I didn't say, I'm sorry I wrote those things because I really felt that way and I'm not going to take back what I said in that entry. I told him I was sorry because I posted it there for everyone to see and that I didn't have the guts to tell him about my feelings when that thing happened.

Lesson learned: do not blog about work! OR if you can't help it, try using an alias. Remember that Delta Airlines flight attendant who got fired because of her blog?

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