this NY times article about blogging versus employment is funny. they make it sound like every other person blogging about work gossip either ends up fired or with a book deal. bitch, please. most people don’t care who annoys you at work, and if they do and you write using identifiable names or details and end up getting caught, it’s because you are not very smart.

incidentally, i chose a long long time ago the benefits of using my real name (old friends, relatives, etc. can easily find me, sometimes even by accident; i get to be the number one person in the world with my first and last name on google) versus those of writing anonymously (being able to air petty grievances, incriminating rants, or truly regrettable stories in a public diary without them being traceable). mostly because i find the internet a more useful tool for communication purposes than exhibitionism. plus, me doing something seedy or being pissed at someone one day doesn’t necessarily need to be recorded permanently anywhere other than my own memory, does it? it’d be like letting someone wiretap your brain. you may not be guilty of much, but it’s still just not a real good idea to have permanent records of everything.

i did have a slightly similar incident though during one of my college internships with a small company in the very infant days of collapsing (please do not go back in the archives to look, those old entries are embarrasing). i won’t bore you with details but i ended up erasing all references to them and moving on with my life. now i work for a successful large player in the advertising business, and their company no longer exists.

YES, i find that fairly satisfying. i’d like to think i brought them down from the inside.