Blogging against the policies...

Blogging against the policies of your company can put you in big big trouble. I came across the story of a blogger who was fired for blogging something that is against the policies of the company he works for. What a profile this guy has? He interned at IBM, worked full time at Microsoft for 18 months before started to work with the COOL COMPANY, Google.

In his own words, he was part of IBM in the tailend of its era, Microsoft at the inflection point leading to maturity and Google at the beginnig of what would become an empire. He is recently fired for blogging about few things that were not supposed to be revealed to the general public. Google is known to recruit only brainees and am sure they did the right thing having this guy on board. He was little more excited to blog (read bullshit) about few things that were not expected to go beyond google. Read on if you are curious about what he wrote. This post may not be the only reason for Google management to sack him but lot of news portals on WEB carried the news. Google definitely picked on this guy.

This man is now with Plaxo and is currently drafting Internet communication policy for Plaxo.Plaxo is one of those companies who respects the freedom of speech (read blogging). I am quite sure about the security standards and policies of TCS but not really aware if we have blogging policies/rules. I will keep an eye on that for sure.

Getting fired for blogging something stupid is most horrible thing that can happen to anyone and I could sense what Mark Yen would have gone through when he was between jobs. Given his credentials, it is not hard to find a job but leaving GOOGLE ADSESNSE group is something that he can never forget to regret.