I've seen it happen once. Sort of.
Right now I've got a work in progress that would definitely cause me some work trouble. It's about my work, specifically. Nothing illegal or threatening, but it's not kind to the workplace.
Anyone out there done something like this?
Every day. I tell stories about people that I run into every day, and that means I don't paint them in the best light. If they wanted better lighting, they should have acted better. Or at least realized someone with poor lighting was near.
These days? Shit, did you hear about that guy at google? You can't even quote well established science anymore.
Yes. Every other day on facebook. That's why I don't have my employer listed on my (facebook) profile.
I have some major concerns around the current climate of "purity politics" and "call out culture". Where you could say/write something either well intended or in jest, and because it doesn't meet someone elses particular moral world view, you wind up being the victim of an online witch burning.
It's more than online these days. Thus the firings.
Yes I have broken rules at a job I had.
Anyone experienced the consequences? What were they?
For me I was pulled into a meeting and asked to remove my employers name from my facebook profile. Fortunitely I have a good employer, who didn't want to stop me from expressing free speech.
That is fortunate. And sad. Fortunate it worked out that way, sad that it's definitely "fortunate" that we live in a world where it's fortunate that an employer is cool with you expressing yourself on your own time.
Luckily no one from my old military unit has read my work so I've not had to deal with them.
But, as an old saying goes, if you wanted me to write better of you, you should have acted better.
I think for me it was showing people how I did the rough draft on the back of corporate forms at a job I used to have a few years ago, not my current gig. They were old ones that needed to be thrown out anyway but I'd seen people fired out for way less.
Definitely. But I haven't put much up where they could see it, certainly not any current work and I've limited who can view it.
On Facebook I've lost a few "friends" from a former job (comic books) because of a couple of things I've said there. Not to mention the image (vocalist from Pussy Riot giving the finger) I used at the top of my page. I think I have some former employers names on the account but the not my current one.
As for publishing my fiction, I've decided to use a pen name.
"If you think of yourself as part of normal society you'll never write anything worth reading a second time."
Nelson Algren
Shit, in 2017, if you think of yourself as a part of normal society, writing at all is as foreign as eating nutritious food, turning the boob-tube off, and reading something besides social media.
Yes, it's why I never put my real name on anything.
