Bloggers, please beware...
Dua minggu lalu, seorang pegawai toko buku menjadi the first
blogger di Inggris yang dipecat gara-gara isi blognya. Dalam blognya ia
menuliskan tentang his bad days at work dan his’’sandal wearing’’boss.
Joe Gordon (37) yang bekerja di Waterstone’s Edinburgh selama
11 tahun dipecat tanpa warning karena ‘’gross misconduct’’ dan dianggap ‘’bringing
the company in to disrepute’’ melalui komentar-komentar yang ia tulis dalam
blognya.
Para penulis buku dan sekitar 5 juta bloggers dari seluruh belahan
dunia menyebut sebagai ‘’extraordinary’’ untuk memecat Joe Gordon, yang menulis
dalam waktu senggangnya segala hal diblognya. Dari mulai pemilihan presiden
Amerika sampai kota tempat ia tinggal, Edinburgh.
Gordon
yang jarang menuliskan pekerjaannya dalam blognya serta tidak pernah directly
indetify his Branch of Waterstone’s menyatakan, ketika dicisiplinary meeting ia
disuruh berhenti mem-posting segala sesuatu yang berhubungan dengan
pekerjaannya.
Menurut
serikat pekerjanya, Waterstone’s menolak pembelaannya (plea) meskipun mereka
tidak punya guideline apakah karyawannya diperbolehkan/tidak mempunyai weblog.
"This wasn't a sustained attack.I was not
deliberately trying to harm the company. I was venting my spleen. This was
moaning about not getting your birthday off or not getting on with your boss. I
wasn't libelling anyone or giving away trade secrets." Kata Gordon seperti dikutip the Guardian.
Gordon, bergabung dengan Waterstone’s ketika masih
student di tahun 1993, setahun setelah ia memulai blogging yang ia beri judul Woolamaloo Gazette. Yang diambil
dari fiksi karya Monty Python, University of Woolloomooloo.
Blognya yang punya link dengan blog lain diseluruh dunia
dan dengan beberapa website, lebih banyak membahas current affairs dan favourite
film. Bahkan –-Waterstone’s justru diuntungkan—sebagian besar blognya devoted
to extrolling the virtues of reading dan juga novel-novel favoritnya.
Dalam dua bulan terakhir sebelum pemecatannya, ia hanya
dua kali mentioned his work.
Salah satunya, ia menuliskan tentang his ‘’sandal-
wearing’’ manager yang ia juluki ‘’Evil Boss’’. Yang menurut Gordon adalah
karikatur seperti ‘’Pointy Haired Boss’’ dalam the Dilbert cartoon.
Di postingan yang lain, Gordon joke about
‘’Bastardstone’s’’.
Setelah sempat disuspended selama diadakan investigasi
atas blognya, ia dipanggil dalam formal disiplinary meeting dan sacked last
week.
Pemecatan itu juga alarmed the global internet
community. Dimana Gordon menerima
puluhan email dari bloggers lain dan beberapa diantaranya mengajak untuk memboikot Waterstone’s.
Di Amerika, Ellen Simonetti dipecat dari pekerjaannya
sebagai a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines setelah bosnya melihat fotonya--
yang memakai seragam-- dalam blognya, yang ia katakan sebagai adventure of an
anonymous flight attendant who work for ‘’Anonymous Airline’’.
Adventures with Evil Boss
Monday, Dec 13 2004
On the way home from a dreadful day at work (I should
really have phoned in sick but couldn't face the hassle this causes), I walked
rather than catching the bus to get the blood flowing a little. Not far from my
flat is a new bakery/pastry store, The Old Bakehouse, which also has an art
gallery in the basement. Delicious pastries and artwork? Now how cool is that?
Groovy.
Tuesday, Nov 16
Bad things recently. Having to pay Edinburgh bastard
moneygrubbing council's tax, may they choke on every penny. Return to shift
working as Evil Boss decrees even those now in stockroom must do late and early
shifts, which is a waste of time for that post.
Xmas working hours brought in early - first shift now
starts at 7.30 bloody am, which is fucking ridiculous.
Evil Boss fucking me off by refusing my requests for a
day's holiday on the 31st of December for my birthday and the first week of
January off as I have taken for the last few years ...
Evil Boss then has cheek to ask me to work one of the
bloody bank holidays in the week he refused me off. Cheeky smegger. Said no.
Noticing he has put me down for one of those days
anyway, the sandal-wearing bastard. Words will be exchanged - if he gives me my
birthday off I will do his bank holiday day. If not, he can kiss my magnificent
Celtic ass, since it is voluntary.
Monday Nov 8
Yes, my day slaving for Bastardstone's was lightened
(never an easy task on a Monday) by one of the avalanche of humour books that
appear before Xmas, Far From [Dull] and Other Places by Dominic Greyer ...
Amusing myself this week with Rich Hall's excellent
biography of his redneck "uncle", Otis Lee Crenshaw: I Blame Society,
and probably pissing everyone in our staffroom out by laughing my arse off.
(some of the article taken from Guardian and the Woolamaloo Gazette
foto: simonetti on her blog , bbc.co.uk)
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