Microsoft fires worker over weblog
SeattlePI | at | by Mike
Michael Hanscom began keeping an online journal, commonly known as a weblog, several years ago. He started his job as a contract worker in Microsoft's print shop last year. Last week, he mixed the two.
This week, he's looking for a new job, after becoming an unwilling case study in the fine line walked by corporate employees who write about work in their personal weblogs.
It all started when Hanscom noticed something interesting on the loading dock on his way into work a week ago -- three pallets of shiny new Apple Power Mac G5 computers, clearly destined for somewhere on the company's Redmond campus.