Intern season is a bit more pronounced in DC proper than it is here out in the 'burbs. During intern season in the District, you'll see packs of all these bright-eyed congressional and executive branch interns who go out to the local happy hour watering holes with their credentials still prominently displayed around their necks. (It's considered very gauche and pooh-poohed by the natives, who are probably just insanely jealous of the utter awesomeness conveyed by an ID badge on a bead-chain.)
Anyway, one of the more recent hazards of internships is of course, blogging indiscretely about your shiny new summer job. An article in yesterday's New York Times entitled "Interns? No Bloggers Need Apply" (free registration required, try BugMeNot.com) lists out some of the perils of not knowing the "First Commandment" of blogging about your job:
"Thou Shalt Not Blab About the Company's Internal Business."Of course, it's not just interns who get in trouble for what they blog about (either revealing too much about their job to the world, or too much about their personal life to their bosses). The NYT article also talks about Jessa, the blogger I previously wrote about who lost her job because her employers didn't like her blog.
Some busted bloggers manage to make some lemonade out of their lemons, using their newfound fame or notoriety to get new jobs, book deals, etc., though this is probably not a realistic fallback position for most people.
In a related story, BusinessWeek's Blogspotting has an item today featuring some blogs about workblogs (both anonymous and public).
Getting back to my own work blogging, I will get this week's Guest Editor's Picks up in a bit.
Thanks -- Joe
Tag: Busted for Blogging
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