Comments on: Employee Blogs and the Law http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2006/12/employee-blogs-and-the-law News, commentary, tools and tips about business blogging and the world of corporate blogs Fri, 05 Dec 2008 06:26:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Rich Brooks http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2006/12/employee-blogs-and-the-law#comment-84930 Rich Brooks Wed, 13 Dec 2006 20:28:30 +0000 http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2006/12/employee-blogs-and-the-law.html#comment-84930 Michael, Thanks for calling me on that. Absolutely there are some great large companies out there, and after hiring a certain number of people absolutely you will have hired a few bad apples...or at least cranky, noisy, email-forwarding, blogging ones. It was meant to be a *little* tongue-in-cheek. However, I don't judge success by how many people I can hire. I just finished Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big and it reinforced some of the thoughts and beliefs that have been playing around in my head. Review here: http://www.flyteblog.com/flyte/2006/12/small_giants_co.html Michael,

Thanks for calling me on that. Absolutely there are some great large companies out there, and after hiring a certain number of people absolutely you will have hired a few bad apples…or at least cranky, noisy, email-forwarding, blogging ones.

It was meant to be a *little* tongue-in-cheek.

However, I don’t judge success by how many people I can hire. I just finished Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big and it reinforced some of the thoughts and beliefs that have been playing around in my head.

Review here: http://www.flyteblog.com/flyte/2006/12/small_giants_co.html

]]> By: Michael Brown http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2006/12/employee-blogs-and-the-law#comment-84489 Michael Brown Wed, 13 Dec 2006 13:54:58 +0000 http://www.businessblogconsulting.com/2006/12/employee-blogs-and-the-law.html#comment-84489 Your comments "I run a small business; what do I know about keeping the peons in their place" shows a typical "big business is bad" attitude. Big business's were once small - when did they become bad? When they became successful? Yes some businesses, both small and large are bad, but careful with the broad brush. I started a software company that eventually became medium size. I experienced the problem of anonymous e-mails distributed to large groups of people. Sometimes you can not make a person happy and sometimes you just hire the wrong person. I know that when I had a anonymous employee distributing misleading, incorrect, and negative material it it did hurt the company and all the other hard working employees that worked there. I could not wait to find the person and fire them. I do hope you are successful enough someday to actually experience what you are talking about. Your comments “I run a small business; what do I know about keeping the peons in their place” shows a typical “big business is bad” attitude. Big business’s were once small - when did they become bad? When they became successful? Yes some businesses, both small and large are bad, but careful with the broad brush.

I started a software company that eventually became medium size. I experienced the problem of anonymous e-mails distributed to large groups of people. Sometimes you can not make a person happy and sometimes you just hire the wrong person. I know that when I had a anonymous employee distributing misleading, incorrect, and negative material it it did hurt the company and all the other hard working employees that worked there. I could not wait to find the person and fire them.

I do hope you are successful enough someday to actually experience what you are talking about.

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