This morning I checked my webstats and was completely surprised that someone came to my blog from a Google search on my ex-manager’s name as the keyword. This blog shows up as the 2nd search result when you do a search on his name. After looking at the times that this person did the search, one time at noonish (lunch) time and the other time at 5:54pm I know for sure that this person was my ex-boss himself. He has no life except his work, and usually stays until 6pm or later in his dingy little office.
I then checked on what pages he read, and it seems like he read the “About” page and also the post I wrote about my lay off, and how he was a total robot about the whole letting go process and how everyone in the sales department hated him. To this day I still think he has no personality. I’m sure that after he reads the posts and pages he will know who I am.
Anyway, when I wrote the post about him…well let’s just say I was still in the anger stage of the coming to terms with losing a job and there were some unkind words. I frankly don’t care my ex-boss reads the post, if anything he can learn something from it, like being more compassionate and less of an a-hole. This is a blog and a blogger can rant and rave right?
The funny thing is the company I used to work for is losing customers like crazy and for the last year its hosted email and email defense solutions has been completely unreliable and unstable. Currently, the company sent a bunch of e-mails to their customers apologizing for some serious migration issues…hmmm not good.
Given the above state of company I use to work for, I don’t think my ex-manager’s job is safe either, the company is not growing revenue and his head will be on the chopping block soon too. Over the last year as well, the company has had a really high employee attrition rate, no shred of a lie we are talking about 10 people per month either fired or quit and this happens month after month. This type of employee attrition from a company of 150 people…hmmm not good.
Anyway back to the point of this posts which is “If you write about someone on the net, they will find out.” Blogs are very good at getting picked up by search engines, and most people check the web about themselves by searching for their own name and my ex-manager was no different. There is no such thing as “privacy” on the internet. Like, I said I don’t care what he thinks if he has read my previous posts about him, what is he going to do come after me with a baseball bat? I think he shouldn’t care what I think and get on with his life, after all I was only venting.
So if you don’t want someone to find out what you are saying about them, then don’t write about them on a blog and website. However, if you don’t care, then rant, ramble and blog away.
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