Blogging about Work

Working at a financial institution I fully understand why a company would release an employee for revealing damaging or sensitive information about the company or its customers. Upon being hired we are told that we deal with confidential information and that it is not to be disclosed to anyone without proper authority for obtaining.

I am not fully aware of the exact situations with these companies but would have to say that whether the blogs were written by a disgruntled employee which wrote information stating that these were bad places to work or releasing confidential information about the businesses that could cause competitor's to know of pending mergers or acquisitions, or even allowing the public to know information pertaining to the company's practices that the company has a right to limit these type of activities for the betterment of the company and other employees.

Many times people write and say things without considering the consequences and the issues that can arise.