So I’m finally getting a break from the stress of work. It doesn’t come without its own stresses, though. Mainly financial worries. The fact that work is so barbaric as to categorically refuse any leave requests over Christmas makes a joke out of their whole philosophy. Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! – May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy! But I’d better not write anything NEGATIVE about work, how could I ever come up with anything NEGATIVE about the place that so many people have left over the last few weeks? How could I say anything against a place that doesn’t make any effort towards retaining their existing staff, and just treats them like naughty children? No, no, I’d better not, in case someone types something *random* into a search engine that just happens to be a string containing the words casbot (nothing specific about that!) and where I work, and also makes assumptions as to what I would be posting about.
Let me tell you something, those of you who are here from *random* search strings (I’m thinking just to prove that if you trawl through ten pages of irrelevant search results just to find a page with one reference to what you were searching for, I believe just to justify your outrage that I would even write about something that has caused me so much pain in the first place) my blog is the least of your worries. The fact that you’re concerned about my blog being negative publicity, well, it’s ludicrous. I understand you have to protect your interests, but if you thought about it for a bit longer, you might realise that someone being treated badly by who they work for is going to have a far greater circle of influence on business than a blog found through a random search string. The disappointment, the stress, the fact that people around me can see how much I put in to my work and the amount of appreciation, recognition, ANYTHING that I get is aboslutely zero, speaks far more loudly than a few paragraphs written on a blog site as an outlet for the frustration that work causes. If I never spoke another word about how I’m feeling, the obvious effect that this is having on me would be just cause for indignation on the part of my family and friends. How many more people are they going to talk to? Think about a workplace that treats its staff well, and you’ll find that their general reputation in the community is a very positive one. If an employee can vouch for the company they work for, that’s a good sign. People get that.
The fact that my blog is apparently such a threat makes me wonder why my mouth hasn’t been sewn shut. For all I know, that could have been in the fine print, which is so often skimmed over because one might believe that the size of the font may perhaps be relative to the impact that it will have on their life and day-to-day activities.
I’d just like to say that, however it’s dressed up in corporate terms to make it more palatable to the people who are enforcing it, it’s still essentially censorship.
