Suburban Goddess

I’ve thought about this for quite some time now… at my old job, my blog was strictly monitored (special thanks to an ex-employee with a huge grudge. Well, mission accomplished, buddy. Hope you can spare the karma).

I never understood what my personal life had to do with my professional life; I understand the rigid constraints of Sarbanes-Oxley, but what does that have to do with the rants of a single mother? My blog was used against me, things taken out of context… the most disappointing thing about that is that they were taken out of context by someone who I *thought* understood my dry sense of humor. But as long as I’m not posting about the company, what business do they have monitoring me?

In this day and age, it’s getting harder and harder to express yourself without it being taken the wrong way. It’s not just the Internet sites I’m talking about either; try managing a staff in the constraints of corporate America, and your head will start to hurt. Endless HR meetings about sensitivity training, HIPAA regulations, sexual harassment… when did the world get so freaking sensitive? The scary part was, I just treated others the way that I wanted to be treated. I laughed loudly, I joked, I poked fun at my own faults… and when I saw something not functioning correctly, I pointed it out.

Big mistake.

Somewhere, in the big HR world, someone made a rule that you can’t do that. Because when you do that, you hurt someone’s feelings, and then YOU end up with a write-up in your folder despite the fact that you were trying to save the company.

Seriously, people? What has this world come to?

I have no doubt that my blogs and my social networking accounts may have cost me a job-offer or two… to be honest, I can live with that. I don’t hide who I am from the world, despite numerous warnings that I should. I still come from the belief that hard work and honesty *can* get you somewhere. I still believe that talent *has* to account for something. I still believe that I can find a *cause* to work for, rather than a corporation.

This is me, in all my flawed glory. What you see is what you get. I have good days and I have bad days. I get angry and I get over it. I never say things I don’t mean, but that doesn’t mean that when I say something bone-headed that I don’t regret it later. I live in the moment, and that’s all each post is… a thought in a moment.

I wish poeple could understand it. I wish others would just say what they mean, tell the truth about their intentions, and not hide their agendas…. the world would be so much easier that way.

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