My Blog is My Baby (a rant)

Sure, I have a blog.

Mine's different. It is deliberately weird.

I blog about taboo topics and make dark jokes. Cannibalism, necrophilia, and poop. Lots and lots of poop jokes.

Like most people on AW, I have a day job. It's horrible. My company has done terrible things and as a result, they can't hire decent employees. It's so bad, my company might close the site where I work, because we just can't find people who will show up and work. It's a call center and nobody wants to do that kind of work anyways.

Today the Corporate HR Director was in town to investigate what was going on and if anything could be done. He shook my hand and when another manager mentioned my blog, he said he wanted me to use my blog to help with the company's reputation in the community.

I laughed it off at first.

Now I'm really pissed off and offended.

My blog is my baby. I have fans. I sold out of bumper stickers in just a few days. I need to order more. People are waiting for me to come out with t-shirts. I'm working on a video to help me with a crowdfunding campaign to buy a van. Dozens of folks volunteered to be in that video to help me out because they're fans.

My blog is not for propaganda. I'm not the CEO who shit the bed here. I'm not the one who royally screwed up a good company and drove it into the dirt. It's not my fault everybody knows what kind of horrible things they've done to employees and how the only people who apply are the desperate, the disabled, the felons, the addicts, pregnant woman, and anybody else who can't get hired for a regular job.

It's the last stop before homelessness. And the whole community for 30 miles knows this.

And this corporate jerk wants me to use my blog to spew crap so people forget the reality of it?

I might only get about 1200 hits a month, but they're good hits. I have fans. And they'd lose all respect for me if I did that. Worse, I'd lose them as fans.

Am I wrong to be so pissed off about this? Or should I just brush it off as just another insensitive corporate jerk blowing smoke?

He read my blog. He's avoiding me now.

I tried to talk to him again today. He really worked at avoiding me.

I love your ideas. I'd do it. But...yeah, he's avoiding me. I think the problem was solved.

Lavern08 said:

Aren't you glad he didn't try to hug you, Lucifer?

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He was actually a big man, about five inches taller than me. It would have been funny.

But once he saw what I wrote about, he backed off.

frimble3 said:

What an idiot he is! Sorry, forgot, he's in H-R, so... par for the course. Who hears 'employee with a blog' and automatically thinks 'Hey, he can blog about us, and make everything better' without reading the blog first?

You could be one of the people saying bad things about the company, or some sort of provocateur, encouraging others to complain or discouraging others from applying. You could have some totally inappropriate blog that would horrify the customers, or bring in 'the wrong kind'. You could be a not-very-good blogger with an insignificant site that your manager was just talking up. But, noooo, he's putting ideas in your head. What if you weren't angered by his suggestion (totally appropriately, to my mind)? What if, before he had a chance to see your blog, you jumped at the idea and started blogging about your employer?
Now he's avoiding you as hard as he can. Pity, though, you could have done them a very nice blog of their own. Although, cash-in-advance would probably be the way to go.

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I am completely down with the idea of giving them a blog of their own. They'd have to pay me, of course. That thought alone brings up new questions.

I certainly wouldn't do it for free.

My company is cheap. It's owned by a vulture capital group that's skimming all the profits for their investors.

C.bronco said:

I was wrong. Ask for 50 k.

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My company is the sort that would act as if they own me for that kind of money.

That's a good idea, Haggis.

I'll ponder that one...