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Google Fires Blogger?
Thomas Hawk writes "CNET is reporting that Mark Jen, a blogger whose candid comments about life on the job at Google sparked controversy last month, has left the company. CNET reports that it is not clear if he resigned or was fired but references a post at Google Blogoscoped where it was suggested that he may have been fired over his blog Ninetyninezeros. Given Google's push into the blogging space with their recent acquisition of Blogger it might be interesting to see how this shakes out."
You know what happens if people shut up and just do their work and never tell to the outside what is going on? Especially in large companies it eventually creates an atmosphere of repression, and the feeling in the back of your head that you need to be carefull with what you say.
Hey, they are free to express their opinions just as Google is free to fire them for expressing them. As long as you are ok with the employee being terminated and you aren't in the camp that says "he was just blogging outside of work!" then we're fine. If you really think that what Google did was wrong then that's a whole other ball game.
Who the fuck cares if companies lose touch with reality? Is that really our problem? No. That's the company and their employees problem. Don't like it? Leave. You can complain all you like after you're gone.