Paul Gardner: my doom revisited
December 2nd, 2009
Paul mentioned an issue with Tweetdeck at work, and it made me think about bloggers ‘doing what they do’ during their ‘day jobs’. I’m not saying Paul’s doing or not doing just that…it just made me think.
It’s getting more common, people doing things at work that fall in a grey area.
If you’re a blogger at your day job, do you have the right to use work time for your personal or professional pursuits?
It’s an ethical and moral thing to consider as bloggers, something I don’t and haven’t seen too much of in the last three years of my peers. It was something I touched on professionally when working for America Online prior to the Time Warner merger when creating technical resources for my peers both internal and external at other companies.
Just remember, until you can quit your day job going ‘pro’, you won’t be able to think about orlando vacations if you get canned for Twittering on a company’s time.
If it were that innocent, me and my friends wouldn’t have gotten reamed for playing Doom cross country between call centers.
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There’s way more activity on the social side of the Blogiverse during working hours …….. just sayin’
People usually don’t bring spouses to work, no?
When I was at an office job, I tried very hard not to do ‘personal’ interwebbing from work. Given that my workload was time sensitive and such that I really couldn’t waste my work time and not end up having to take the work home in order to keep up on time, it wasn’t that hard to stick to work… but truthfully… if I did do any personal stuff online, I *always* kept track of the amount of time and gave that time back to the company by staying later.
Honest.
Their IT guy was (still is) a friend and someone I really respect and the last thing I wanted to do was give him a reason to think less of me.
An ethical and moral slacker. I respect that. Modblog?
I was hardly a slacker. The damn job was closer to 12 hours a day than 8, and on Mother’s Day that year I was in the office (because the project was behind due to some technical issues that had slowed the work down) instead of being treated to cake or something at home.
What is Modblog? Not sure what your question is there.
It’s ok, Fracas…I’m here for ya. (back pat noddin’ head) Here…have a cookie.
It’s been a few years, I’m over it I think. lol.
But I really did want to know what your question was. You said:
Modblog?
And I have no idea what that meant. 70steen is the only one I know with a modblog… and that’s just ’cause there are mirror balls and stuff on it.
Either you know or you don’t know. You being you and me being me, I thought you’d know what I meant when I said what I did…that you say you don’t…forget it.
Ok.. it’s code. I will put on my thinking cap (maybe I need some rum too?) and see if anything happens…
Isn’t any language when you get right down to it?
I can tell you’ve been watching DP’s videos.
I try not to. I have only so many hours of cognitive therapy allowed each six months.