Intern? Bloggers Need Not Apply

westlake writes "Short, funny, and to the point, a good read from the NYT about the realities of blogging in the corporate world." From the article: "Most experienced employees know: Thou Shalt Not Blab About the Company's Internal Business. But the line between what is public and what is private is increasingly fuzzy for young people comfortable with broadcasting nearly every aspect of their lives on the Web, posting pictures of their grandmother at graduation next to one of them eating whipped cream off a woman's belly. For them, shifting from a like-minded audience of peers to an intergenerational, hierarchical workplace can be jarring."

Yeah, it's real

[Southpaw018]

My coworkers and I were sharing stories at lunch the other day; thankfully, my office is blissfuly absent of corporate culture ("professional, but relaxed"). A coworker who has a daughter my age said that when her daughter started working as a receptionist at a hospital, she came home after a few months on the job and said "Mom...you never told me Dilbert was real..."

Encourage the rich/connected to Blog/myspace

[hguorbray]

On the other hand -if we encouraged all of the Poli Sci, Business and Law students to not only blog, but to also to post pictures of their exploits on myspace we might be able to weed out some of our future idiot/corrupt politicos and business people.

Just think if this have been around in the '80s when King George was partying his brains out....

-What's the Speed of Dark?

But Whose Belly?

[__aalomb7276]

Was the woman his grandmother? I wouldn't hire that dude at all.

Re:Blackmail

[eln]

But I thought the only reason people joined the Religious Right is because they're bitter that they never got invited to those sorts of parties in college...

Re:Blackmail

[jbrader]

You appear to have forgotten the history of our current beloved leader.

WTF?

[Anonymous Coward]

posting pictures of their grandmother at graduation next to one of them eating whipped cream off a woman's belly

Anyone who does this is a fucking moron. Anyone with such a galactic dearth of common sense deserves to be shut out of the corporate world. And the rest of society for that matter. This is the kind of person that doesn't care when everyone loses their rights to privacy, since they don't use any of theirs. They can all burn in a fiery pit and go straight to hell.

[/rant]

missing link.

[Anonymous Coward]

Shouldn't "eating whipped cream off a woman's belly" be a link above?

Jeez. Gotta be careful about those intros...

[penguinstorm]

I thought that said "eating whipped cream off their grandmother's belly."

Come to think of it, gotta be careful what you post at Slashdot: all that anti-Microsoft hatred that can get spewed could be problematic when The (Wo)Man goes to sign a paycheque.

Re:Blackmail

[gEvil (beta)]

It's only when politics and morality are caught in the same bed together that things get really sticky.

Thanks for getting that nasty vision stuck in my head...

Re:job hunting

[Anonymous Coward]

..mooning someone with a half-shaved-ass. I do/have done stupid shit just for laughs, just like everyone else.

Such as that time you were shaving your ass, and halfway through the process, someone very moon-able walked by.

Re:missing link.

[dema]

eating whipped cream off a woman's belly [facebook.com]

Re:missing link.

[Khaed]

Omigod.

MOM?!

Re:A chilling future

[Anonymous Coward]

neighbour who videoed the nude sunbather

Link plz.

Re:missing link.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll never get why so many people pretend to be shocked about completely normal behavior.

It's called a "joke", you dipshit.

Re:That MySpace blog is there for everyone to see

[Ratbert42]

Every few weeks I'll see one of the high school kids I know at church and say, "I was looking at your MySpace and ..." It's fun watching the blood drain out of their face.

Re:I regret nothing!

[frank_adrian314159]

OK, the cheaply done artwork is fine - I mean who doesn't like to doodle. And, I can even understand the pagan coven - I mean, we all have to nurture our spiritual side. But the Dr. Who fanfic? That's sick man. You should get some counselling. Oh well, at least it's not Star Trek...