So I've always been pretty drama free when it comes to the Social Media/Online Profile type of things, but recently I was blindsighted by my boss, due to the very drama I had successfully avoided since MySpace blew up about 8 years ago.
Apparently, someone from work decided to take some of my harmless comments from my Facebook to my boss. It put him in a rather awkward position because how are you supposed to advise someone about their personal online profile? It turned into an "advice" session where he really just wanted me to be careful for fear that my Facebook might "affect my career down the road".
I work in the public sector, for the government, so I have to put on a clown cap everyday and smile while the public consistantly treats me like a piece of shit. The only reason I was able to marry recently is because my wife is exactly like me. When we get home at the end of a long day of smiling and getting treated like a fucking second-class citizen because someone didn't get their way, or someone's busy politicking their way to the top of their department, we like to simple take off the clown hat, and decompress. Sometimes we get home and talk for hours. Other times, we go to separate rooms for hours. But we're good at dealing with it, and we're better at it now that we have each other.
So recently, I deleted my old Facebook profile, and made a new one. Mainly because I started putting people into groups, but it got FAR too tedious trying to put people into little groups, and there was quite a bit of riff-raff on my friends list anyway, so I figured I'd just make a new account and sort folks as they added me. Everyone who I work with that I don't have a strong personal relationship with will be put into a group where they really don't get to see a whole lot. I'm incredibly outspoken to a fault, and it's finally come back to bite me. Maybe I'm too trusting in folks, or too confident that everyone will get my superior sense of humor and charm. Apparently I was wrong.
The person who sent my recent comments, actually it was one just one comment to my boss, was obviously quick to rush to judgement about my character, as they told him in an email that I was "losing it." They also chose to do this anonymously, which is the part that bothers me the most. Not because I want to know who did it, but because it perpetuates the culture we're living in where any anonymous source can say anything about anyone, whether it's true or not, and get someone into trouble. I hope this person finds out the measures I've had to take to protect my private life from people I work with. I feel bad that I've had to block out many people I really like at work because one person decided to be the Facebook police, and run and try to make a big stink out of absolutely nothing. For those who ended up on the blocked list, I'm sorry. But I can't take any chances with my job, and I refuse to constantly censor myself in my PERSONAL life.
I have to take enough bullshit as it is from being treated like shit at my job by the very people I'm there to serve. That, I really can't control. I'm not taking any in my personal life. Simple as that. So for those who are realizing that you're not going to get to see my funny little updates, my rants about politics and sports, or goofy pictures of my cats, please add this blog to your favorites and visit often. Looks like I'll be posting here more often.
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