There is a balance to be struck, definitely. I've spent a couple years all but paralyzed over whether my personal blog can be found and it'd somehow affect my career because I express some strong (while still largely mainstream) political beliefs in it. Most people have at least has one bad boss story, and in my case, it'd weaken the story to irrelevance if I redacted too much of it to not identify the company or person, so with my method, I simply can't share it online. Even the straightforward purpose of Glassdoor.com is tough for me, since I've mostly worked for small companies wherein I was one of a small and distinct UX team.
So yes, I completely agree, we should be careful, but on the other hand, you choose your level of risk. A former boss and current friend pretty much speaks his mind openly in a way that sometimes makes me cringe when I think about "oh noes! potential job opportunity, chance for promotion or networking!" He simply views the situation differently: he'll take that risk for the freedom to say what he wants. I'm trying to find the middle ground :] Cheers, Scott On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Chauncey Wilson<[email protected]> wrote: > There was a message earlier today that had a lively discussion about > printing out passwords, but the subject line brings up another > meta-issue of how we address those we work with/for. The subject line > referred to "crazy client". In this world of social networking and > myriad connections, should we be careful about references to those we > work with. I've seen Twitter messages where people are talking about > their "bad manager" and "their crazy company" and wonder how these > references might hurt in the long run. I know of a few instances > where private things got back to managers and the result was not > pretty. You never know who is on a discussion for sure - your client > or manager might be "on the line" without awareness or someone in > his/her organization. > > I'm curious what others think about this. > > Thanks, > Chauncey > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [email protected] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
