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I get how you'd feel bad to know that, but private is private. If I complain about my job to a plurk of 100+ people, my boss doesn't have a right to see it.

As for whether the bad behavior is better or worse than the invasion of privacy, that really depends on what was said. Everyone has a right to vent without having the entire world see, even if 150 seems like a lot of people (and common sense would suggest that if you don't want something to leak, you'd filter it to a trusted subgroup). If they were lying or trying to rally whiteknights to help bully someone, that may be different.

and yet they are firing people for saying shit about their jobs on facebook "privately"

This is why the "real name policies" that have been creeping up on social networking sites are pure bullshit. People deserve to be able to complain about their jobs without risking their employment.

More and more it seems like everybody is getting to control everybody else's lives. It fucking sucks.

No one is saying you can't complain, you just shouldn't be an idiot and do it on the internet. Go bitch to a friend, or to your SO or to your cat or something.

Yes, exactly. It may be fucked up and invasive that employers are snooping around on social networking sites, but acting like the words you type are going to stand on principle and hide themselves from any eyes except the ones you hope will see them is just naive as fuck.

There are still plenty of outlets for people to vent. The internet does not absolve you of the responsibility for making careful choices about what you say, when, where, how, and to whom. You still have to be realistic and conduct yourself with realistic expectations.

And if you complained about your job to a group of coworkers and one of them took it to your boss, you could also get fired. The point? Watch who you say things to and when. It's not 'controlling everybody else's lives,' it's common sense. Don't say shit that you don't want people to hear unless you absolutely trust the person not to spill it.

Srsly?

Talk about some stupid false absolutes and bad analogies all up in there.

Complaining to your plurk list about your job is not comparable to complaining to your plurk list about RP or something going on with another RPer.

If you complained to 100+ coworkers about your job in an inter-office email, whether or not you think your boss has a right to see it, your a completely naive idiot not living in the real world if you expect that they won't find out or that it's unfair to you in they do.

Keep on pretending that the world actually conforms to your totally absurd storybook land where "privacy is privacy" and there's never any gray area of what people are supposed to disclose, anon. Even in professions where privacy is a professional standard it's still not an absolute. You might want to wake up and step out of your dream world sometime in this lifetime.

you live in a fantasy if you think the things you say to others is ever really "private"

YES. JFC.

...and now that I've looked back a few pages to see where all this talk came from, I just want to clarify that the people crying about DW not stopping gossip are stupid, and when I say it's wrong to cap things, I just mean it makes you a douche. Possibly more of a douche than the person you're outing.

capping shitty behavior makes you more of a douche than the person with shitty behavior?

Well, that's the thing. Without context, this just sounded like OP was butthurt that someone dared to talk about their falling out without letting OP in on it.

If it's really shitty behavior, then sure, the capper is not as bad.

Your boss likely will still find some way to see it. Didn't you know that most employers actively seek out such things and will fire employees for it? And they will also check the internet for anything they can find about you before even hiring you.

If you want to complain about your boss, go to walmart and buy a blank book. Write in that and hope no one else finds it. That is the closest you will ever get to private.

If I complain about my job to a plurk of 100+ people, my boss doesn't have a right to see it.
But if they see it, they can use that as motivation to find a legitimate reason to fire you or make your life harder. And your co-worker on plurk can use it to make themselves look good with your boss. Who will you appeal to to uphold that right? You live in a world where companies track your habits and location in order to (at best) devise strategies on how to make you give money to them, where lists of people's names and phone numbers are a black market commodity, and where underaged people post pictures, full names and addresses online willingly. Privacy is a thing of the past.

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