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You Can Lose Your Job Over Blog Comments, Too - DailyBlogTips

Dicatat oleh Helmi Kimsui on Khamis, 19 Ogos 2010

You Can Lose Your Job Over Blog Comments, Too - DailyBlogTips

You Can Lose Your Job Over Blog Comments, Too

Posted: 19 Aug 2010 04:17 AM PDT

In the past we have seen people losing their jobs for bad mouthing their companies on Twitter and on blog posts. It turns out that the same can happen with blog comments, even if you are not the one writing the comments!

Confusing? Well, here is what happened. Around one month ago Skype hired Madhu Yarlagadda, a former Yahoo! employee, to be the new Chief Development Officer. Once the news got out, TechCrunch wrote a post reporting the news.

Once the post was a live a bunch of people started leaving comments criticizing and openly insulting Madhu Yarlagadda. These were presumably people who had worked with or for him in the past, and they were claiming he was “dishonest,” “political” and things like that. You’ll still find some of the comments on the post, but the heaviest ones were deleted by TechCrunch, since Madhu threatened to take legal action.

Long story short, the thing blew out of proportions, and as the NY Times reported today, “the comments caught the attention of Skype executives who became concerned about their new hire, according to a person with knowledge of the situation.”

The result? Madhu left the company just one month after joining.

The takeaway message? I am guessing there are many. For one, people are reading blogs, including the comments! Another one would be: be careful with what you put on the Internet.

In this case the stuff was coming from other people though, so the advice would be: be cool/fair to other people, or they will rub it on your face on the Internet. But then again I am not sure if the haters had merit or not in this question, so it might not even be Madhu’s fault.

What do you think?

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