Thorntons, Barrow and blogging

[matgb]

Or, what not to do with your online blog. Enraged locals drive blogger from Barrow-in-Furness | The Register:

Steve Beall, 20, had been relocated from Whitley Bay by choc outfit Thorntons to run a new "Cafe Thorntons" in the sun-kissed Cumbrian paradise. The firm put him up in a local Travelodge, but he evidently wasn't impressed with his new home. Under the name "Stevo", Beall wrote: "Well then what is there to say about Barrow in Furness apart from its a s***-hole!! "How the hell people live there I'll never no [sic]"

Silly damn fool. If you're going to write about work online, then either completely anonymise it (cf NHS Blog Doc, Bystander, etc) or be very very careful about what you say and how you say it.

Or, alternately, use those privacy functions that even MySpace allows (and LJ does so much better) and make sure it's not publicly available. And next time it's my last day and my boss says I can go home when I've done clearing the desk, I'll make sure to set the file transfer of the zip of all my personal stuff up a little earlier... Filezilla is about 42% into a 120Mb upload. Which given we're on ADSL is taking it's time even though I'm the only one here except the Deputy MD...

Still, found some fun old files from years back, including the CV I used to apply for the job.

Comments

[matryx.livejournal.com]

You should get yourself one of those funky USB external hard-drives, and I don't mean a pendrive. Something like a 250gb IOmega should only cost a few quid these days - keep your personal stuff on that and then it's just an unplug and go :)

[matgb]

Yeah, had considered it, but financially not viable until my last payday, which was yesterday, and I hadn't scoped out any options I could go buy at lunch.

Besides, didn't realise how big it was, should've stripped out some stuff or taken my camera in, but forgot. Still, got it all. Will get one soon I suspect, depends on what I end up doing.