New computer time, er, the risks of writing when you should be working
I've been insanely busy yet productive lately. The side effect of this has been a steady accumulation of longer, more 'interesting' or 'amusing' stories to share but not enough time to do so.
Fortunately the audit job I'm on is winding down rapidly which should give me more time to write. And, more importantly, I'm scheduled for a laptop upgrade this morning - which will mean I can do everything faster, giving me even more time to write. And work.
I was going to rave a little more about my new gear, but there'll be time for that once I have it in my hands - first, the whole thing about writing reminded me of an article in the current issue of
CA Magazine: a small featurette on people who were fired for blogging about work - the usual reason was that they were doing it
while on work time. One guy was silly enough to brag about the fact he was being paid to sit around and do that instead of his real job.
And that's just stupid - he admitted to fraud - stealing time/money from his employer.
A direct link to the fired writers featurette is here.
Professionals at least have the same advantage as
taxi drivers: you can go 'off the clock', so to speak, when you're not doing 'productive' "work work", i.e., taking a break to run errands or type your personal online journal or whatever. People who keep 'regular hours' on the other hand don't have that luxury.
I wouldn't say that the CA Magazine article smugly puts down the unfortunate souls who had to go job hunting again because of their mistakes - although saying that someone had an audience of roughly 10 people before he was fired does sound a bit haughty.
Sidenote:
welcome, Dennis, to the list of sites on that handy bar to the right.