Comments on: Borders Non-Blogging Contract? http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/ The Art and Times of Eric Iverson Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2383 Anonymous Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:44:45 +0000 http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2383 <p>I've had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.</p> <p>Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children's toy. (Ha! I don't work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were "encouraged" to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.</p> <p>It doesn't surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship...!</p> I’ve had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.

Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children’s toy. (Ha! I don’t work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were “encouraged” to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.

It doesn’t surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship…!

]]> By: Anonymous http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2459 Anonymous Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:44:45 +0000 http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2459 <p>I've had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.</p> <p>Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children's toy. (Ha! I don't work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were "encouraged" to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.</p> <p>It doesn't surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship...!</p> I’ve had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.

Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children’s toy. (Ha! I don’t work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were “encouraged” to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.

It doesn’t surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship…!

]]> By: Anonymous http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2534 Anonymous Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:44:45 +0000 http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2534 <p>I've had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.</p> <p>Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children's toy. (Ha! I don't work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were "encouraged" to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.</p> <p>It doesn't surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship...!</p> I’ve had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.

Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children’s toy. (Ha! I don’t work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were “encouraged” to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.

It doesn’t surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship…!

]]> By: Anonymous http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2608 Anonymous Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:44:45 +0000 http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2608 <p>I've had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.</p> <p>Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children's toy. (Ha! I don't work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were "encouraged" to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.</p> <p>It doesn't surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship...!</p> I’ve had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.

Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children’s toy. (Ha! I don’t work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were “encouraged” to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.

It doesn’t surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship…!

]]> By: Anonymous http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2665 Anonymous Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:44:45 +0000 http://ericiverson.net/2009/07/27/borders-non-blogging-contract/#comment-2665 <p>I've had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.</p> <p>Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children's toy. (Ha! I don't work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were "encouraged" to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.</p> <p>It doesn't surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship...!</p> I’ve had two jobs now where it was very explicitly stated that blogging, or other internet presence, would lead to termination if we admitted to being affiliated with our place of employment.

Weirdly, the most adamant one was a retailer specializing in a certain kind of children’s toy. (Ha! I don’t work for them any more, so I can say it: WE HAD SUCH A CONTRACT AT BUILD-A-BEAR!) The other was an educational organization with a religious affiliation, and in that case we were “encouraged” to limit our public presence to opinions that were in agreement with the organization.

It doesn’t surprise me that K-12 teachers are heavily censored; we are tools of the State, as painful as that is. But I do think it makes a lot less sense to censor someone working in retail, especially a book store! Of all the people I would expect to oppose censorship…!

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