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This Seems A Little Harsh (if it’s true)
By JLP | February 7, 2007
I found this on Consumerist:
Sprint/Nextel employees caught commenting or contributing to online venues, blogs, or consumer report-venues would be researched, identified, and documented via Corporate Security team and fired, announced Sprint senior council Len Kennedy via intracompany email Monday.
You can read the entire post here.
If this is true, I wonder if this means ANY blog or just blogs pertaining to information about Sprint/Nextel. Surely, this could not hold up in court. It seems a little intrusive to me.
Topics: Miscellaneous | 5 Comments »
February 8th, 2007 at 5:44 am
Corporations have more and more rights while employees have less and less. Unfortunately, that is the way it is.
February 8th, 2007 at 6:19 am
I used to have Nextel and had a post on my old blog about their horrible customer service. Over a period of about 6 months, I probably had 10 people comment stating that they were either current employees of Sprint/Nextel or previous employees.
All complained and nobody had anything good to say. From what I read, it seemes like nobody is happy there and it’s just their way of venting frustration.
Unfortunately, if you’re doing it on company time, I’m sure they can legally let you go. I’m not sure what the legal basis would be if you did it from your own personal computer on your own time. Maybe it would be in their best interest to find other jobs anyway.
February 8th, 2007 at 9:14 am
If you’re on their network, they own you. If you’re outside the network, you’ve got a good case.
February 8th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
It seems a lot more than a little harsh, especially if they’re talking about ANY kind of contributions to online forums, etc. (Not just Sprint/Nextel bashing.)
February 9th, 2007 at 11:16 am
From reading the whole post, it sounds like information related to the company itself, not like they’re firing all bloggers who happen to work at Sprint. Of course, employees should know better.
And besides, it seems horribly stupid to even blog while at work because the IT people can see absolutely *everything* you look at and do online. And yes, if you screw around too much on the job they can fire you, and should.