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Corporate Blogs, From Bellyache To Headache

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the burning-bridges-and-other-bad-methods-for-promotion dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Washington Post is running an article about corporate blogging and the headaches that come with it. From the article: 'Like anonymous blogs supposedly written by employees of Microsoft Corp. and Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the BearingPoint blog is, in many ways, just like happy-hour conversations that employees are apt to hold after work. They gripe about inane training programs, grouse about absurd corporate policies and ruminate about management incompetence. But transferred to cyberspace, where the audience is global, the management headaches associated with such grumblings become instantly more severe.'"

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  1. I learned my lesson 15 years ago by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Those usenet postings are just a search away on Google groups. Sometimes I pull a few up just to shiver at what an idiot I was. Heh, maybe in 15 years I'll be Googling my old slashdot posts. Posting on the internet is like getting a tatoo only a tatoo is easier to erase.

  2. Recommendations? by Chagatai · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Are there any good blogs that Slashdotters read about corporate life, or directories that break down blogs by company? I don't have any businesses specifically in mind, I'm just looking for funny and juicy stories about how companies fare.

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    1. Re:Recommendations? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: 2, Interesting

      http://minimsft.blogspot.com/

      You might hate 'em, but it's fascinating stuff to read.

    2. Re:Recommendations? by FryingDutchman · · Score: 2, Funny

      http://www.bentwookie.com/ - I blogged heavily about my previous job and thankfully resigned about the time they caught wind of it and wanted to press charges for referring to the CEO by the pseudonym "cockfag". Seemed better than a real name considering the assinine things he would do.

  3. Re:Hmm by Tachikoma · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But they'll just fire everyone instead.
    unless you work for state/federal government. we have all the "inane, absurd and incompetent" (on a larger, more incompetent scale) without that "get fired" thing

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