French Blogger Fired for Blogging About Boss

MiniMicrosoft, Microsoft's anonymous blogger, has so far). This person obviously didn't stay anonymous enough. It's why I don't advise anyone try the anonymous route: either be straight up with your boss and everyone, or stay off the Internet. The lawsuit that springs out of this will be interesting to watch. If it succeeds it'll set back corporate blogging in Europe because corporations will just adopt a zero tolerance policy toward any blogging out of school. I hope she gets kicked out of court. Here in California and Washington we are an "work at will" state. I can get fired for pretty much any reason, especially when I talk about my workplace on stage in public (my contracts with all my recent employers says that and rubs it in). Such a lawsuit would be laughed out of court here. Anytime you are identifyable with your company you've gotta be professional about your behavior. It's why at Microsoft we said the policy was "be smart." That roughly translated to "don't piss off your boss." Add to DiggThis | Furl Scobleizer blog. He works as Scobleizer ...