A single mom who worked for COMPANY X by day and wrote a sex blog anonymously at night, has been fired from her day gig after company execs demanded all employees be given a thorough “google” search.
We are marching cumbersomely along some slippery slopes my friends. Slippery slopes indeed. And who’s that dude spraying the sides down with Astro-Glide and massage oil?? Why it’s our good friend Big Brother! You remember him from your high school days, when that teacher you couldn’t stand made you read a book by George Orwell, and the philosophy of things in your head, understood so far, was forever turned into a shiny glob of tarball.
Her boss was able to find her true identity due to an unintended Twitter related caching issue. She had entered her real name in her profile and then changed it as soon as she realized it was publicly visible. She immediately changed it, but the damage was done. One of the search engines had already cached the information. That’s when everything came to a screechingly crashy halt.
On one hand, this is utterly repulsive. People should be allowed to do whatever they want, with whomever they want, wherever they want, while not on the company clock. On the OTHER, more warty and unclean hand, it is standard business procedure these days to do “ego checks” on would be new employees. As unfortunate as that is, it’s the sad, unsaid truth.
Admittedly I’m pretty certain that my bosses are not going to have a problem with the porn that is on my desktop nor the subjects I write about on MY daily porn site. Oh yeah, cuz that’s what I was hired to do. Lucky me.
YOU, however, need to be careful out there. Make sure your shit is private. Keep your stage names and superhero alter-ego’s closely shrouded in mystery. And don’t let any pesky Vicki Vale’s in.
{Funny Aside: COMPANY X would make a GREAT porno name. You’re welcome. Send my 20% in care of Orgasm.com}