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Doesn't sound like you'll miss it too much, but it must be a pain in the arse, nonetheless. Good luck finding your next post.

Sorry, or not so sorry to hear that, Alday. To many more happy memories and bucks at your new job. :)

Sounds like the part-time/freelance job I was recently fired from.

Where my work was recently featured in a case study by the company who's system we use.

But my boss decided that "I was just too hard to get ahold of."

Apparently email and a cell phone are just not enough options for him.

this sucks. good luck

Congratulations on your freedom, Alday! Yes, it does sound like that place wasn't doing you any favors if they'd can you over three minutes of lax time out of an eight-hour work day. Wake up tomorrow and play Gears of War 'til your eyes bleed! You've deserved it.

We're all behind you - think of each of them aliens as your bosses. ;)

jobs are overrated. work for yourself!

Good luck in your search, Alday!

I'm working for the man right now too, so I know how you feel - and as soon as they scope my blog I'm gone as well! You're almost certainly better off in the long run, even if cash is tight for a while. Good luck!

Unfair.Dismissal.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone, I'll land on my feet. I have money in savings, the wife makes more than me anyway and we have a very supportive family.

I'm thinking that after I get another job I'm going to make a blog post detailing all the salacious shit going on at my former job, the alcoholic management that wouldn't know a profitable business if it teabagged them, the fact that the FTC basically shut us down last year and how they've had to duck and dive to get around the FTC ruling, all the while flat out lying to the customers (Oh we chose not to renew our not for profit status? Funny, I thought the FTC stripped us of it for failing to meet basic criteria?). I'll wait until after I get a job, I don't want potential employers to see me trashing my last job if they google me.

I'm going to make a blog post detailing all the salacious shit going on at my former job...I'll wait until after I get a job, I don't want potential employers to see me trashing my last job if they google me.

That, my friend, would be the least of your concerns (although a rather important one). There's also that whole "libel" thing that you could get slapped with, if your bosses were lawyer-happy.

An example: I worked at a job once where the boss would routinely talk bad in front of all employees (all 8 or so of us) about employees who had just been fired or resigned. The guy would have horrible mood swings and would, by his own admission, go to Vegas in the weekends, loose a bunch of money, and take out on the employees when he came back to work. After being fired from that job (I actually wanted to be fired, since my finances weren't as good as yours at the time and I needed the unemployment benefits) I wrote a blog post detailing all manner of things I saw while there. I was immediately threatened with a lawsuit (the guy already had 9 going, what was one more?) for libel if I didn't immediately take down the content. Since I didn't have any written documentation of what had happened (although I had various eye witness, all of which would have been quickly labeled hostile witnesses in a court, since no one ever left that company in good terms -- 1.5 years, company of 8 total with a revolving door: 18 people left between the time I was hired and fired) I wouldn't have been able to prove anything. Having not enough money at the time to get a lawyer myself or to support legal bills, I simply deleted the offending lines in the post.

Ah good 'ol free speech in America. I could risk it though, the company doesn't have much luck with lawsuits.

Ah good 'ol free speech in America.

Yeah. Too bad "libel" now encompasses negative information about someone even if it's true. (I was foolish enough once to believe that "libel" and "slander" only applied in cases where the information being put forth was false.)

Please don't burn bridges! Think twice and even three times about this because you just never, ever know who you might need in the future. Or who is reading your stuff that gives them pause on hiring you. Best of luck!

"Ah good 'ol free speech in America."

There's free speech, then there is shooting yourself, in the foot, with a howitzer, just to feel better. ;)

You have zero way of knowing if any future employers, be they a fleeting contract, or a longer proposition will read what you write. And bad mouthing a (shit, or otherwise) previous employer is a sure way to, err, be "less interesting" to the next.

Despite the inevitable ineptitude of middle management when it comes to "that thar interweb thang" - some have a nasty habit of actually knowing how to drive it.

If they know the word google comes before dot and com - then you're in even more trouble.

If you're going to post anyway - really wise to not name names (people or companies) - if nothing else, if some prospective employer comes along, they can see whilst you don't take shit from anyone, you won't burn bridges in the process.

Such is life, we win some, we lose some.

If your company rules mandated that you not read personal documents, private email, etc., on their time (even for one minute), then it is their choice, their company policy, etc. If there was no policy, then it is a different story.

It doesn't sound like things are really all that bad for you, if you were getting a 50" TV delivered.

Sorry, no sympathy here.