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- gargantuan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm encouraging my employer to treat bloggers the same way they treat press. In press, Edtorial is king. Online, getting positive feedback in a blogg is the best form of marketing. Now don't lynch me for trying to ruin something pure, the majority of blogs are slanted and biased, but my angle is not to buy coverage, but to get genuine comments from people who form opinions for other people. I think my company is cool as ***** and makes great stuff, so I'm prepared to take the risk by letting someone we have no control over speak about our product.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5the beauty of blogs, is they tend to swarm all over a particular subject, making control of the information impossible.
- DrumsNWhistles, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I wish this weren't limited just to tech. I've been blogging as loudly as I can about Caremark's shoddy practices but getting any attention on it is difficult. Another blogging friend just had her house burned to the ground and is now taking crap from insurance adjusters about paying under the contract she paid for. If more bloggers would step up and stop taking this crap from their insurance companies, maybe they'd actually change their practices.
- twatwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This is the very reason that libel is the most popular cause of litigation at this point and time.
I offer my own run in with the situation as testimony.
It never went to litigation, but they company did call my manager of my current company at the time, and in that time frame I was turned down for a job at a group (within my company) that dealt with the same technology as the company I interviewed with.
Here is the post that ruffled feathers.
http://notquiteleet.com/?p=22 - twatwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yeah this is true - they say word of mouth advertising is the most powerful....
all I can say is welcome to the internet.
lol - freakystyley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Goner, hehe, considered it, but I wanted to be constructive :P.
- dangmoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2love it
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Read about the fall from grace of this Time Warner product:
http://nancygrace.info/ - twatwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@thewebguy
I know they owe me nothing - I wasnt the one making legal threats, they were. I did however have a lawyer volunteer to take them on for free if they decided to be that stupid. - thewebguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2give me a BREAK
this character may have been a d bag, but who cares? they owe you nothing, it is a company you interviewed for. just be glad you didn't get hired there.. - Goner, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1www.*****.com anyone? :)
- DontSayFanboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2twatwaffle:
Since you've freely published that exchange, allow me to offer some feedback from an objective, random source. All I have to go on here is your side of the story, so it's remarkable at how bad you come across. The tone of that post is arrogant and childish. I understand it's meant to be a personal rant, but...wow.
First of all, I'm used to being interviewed by non-technical people. I don't hold it against them if they trip up on some jargon and certainly won't call them idiots for it. Many questions in an interview are meant to give the interviewer a sense of your communication skills. I can only imagine what the actual interview was like, but based on your retelling I don't have a very good impression of you.
Secondly, you were late. You say you left later than you should have. That's your bad. It's pretty much common sense that you should plan on arriving 20-30 minutes early just in case. Showing up early gives a good first impression. Being late and making excuses about the phone number just leave another bad impression about you.
Finally, ranting on the internet, insulting them and naming names is simply unprofessional. Why are you surprised when they file a formal complaint with your employer? Why are you surprised when your work sees this unprofessional behavior and passes you over for a position? You openly admit that you stayed home from work to interview at another company!
I'm just some random douchebag on the internet, but really, get over yourself and grow up. - freakystyley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Dugg, good post. As someone who was dooced after 5 years of sevitude to an ungrateful company, I have to agree -- companies definitely need to pay more attention to what blogs are saying, ESPECIALLY when the criticism is coming from within.
What I'm interested to know is if it's at all possible for an employee to blog criticisms about their company in a way that is constructive. I'd like to do that right now, but I'm afraid of getting dooced again. It's rather unfortunate -- I feel that I'm sitting on some very good content. - TheReport, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3This isn't a brand new phenomenon, Companies have been listening to the online buzz for years now, hell Snakes on a Plane is a great example of the Blogospheres power over multimedia outlets and Corporations. In this day and age it would almost be suicide to not establish a presence online of some sort
- twatwaffle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@ DontSayFanboy
First of all, a manager of their professional technical services should certainly be a technical individual. So in that I was being interviewed by a technical person, or at least one who was trying to talk out of his ass.
Secondly, what I was thinking in my head does not equivocate in to what was coming out of my mouth. In fact I was very respectful during the interview, what was going through my head was not so much.
Third, I was late due to a high priority at my current employer, of which that company was trying to hire me away from. As I admitted there is a realm of being reasonable about the issue, but I didn't feel the manager was in it, and I have every right to reflect that.
Fourth, when an interview like this (the telephone interview) is the first contact/impression I have of communication with that company, and the technical services manager engages in technical conversation that eludes me to reasonably believe he's a dumbass, how can you expect someone to take them seriously as a professional or a company that can back up what it preaches?
Fifth, I stayed at home for the technical phone interview, and because I took a sick day due to not feeling well. If your reading comprehension was up to par, you would notice that the in person interview was on a separate occasion. My management knew I was interviewing, who the hell do you think were my references there smart guy? In fact, at the time I was an intern, the purpose of my employment as an intern is to learn as much as I could during my rotation, and apply that to obtain a job - the whole principle of being an intern.
Sixth, they didn't file a former complaint with my employer, they have no right to be speaking to my employer in the first place. They have no concrete evidence that I owned the blog, all they know is that a blog entry exists on the Internet that had an account of the situation I was involved in. They made an informal phone call to my employer making veiled threats indirectly to me through my management. That is more unprofessional than anything I did, and a legally actionable offense.
But thanks for your insight. - danjal, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i agree with gargantuan
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