If It Happened At Whole Foods and Google, It Can Happen To Your Company

Jul. 12 – CEO John Mackey posted comments under an alias in a Yahoo finance forum from 1999 through 2006.

 

If you work for a listed firm on any of the African stock Exchanges, You can avoid the actual and perceived improper use of your employer’s  information. Avoid any impression that statements are being made on behalf of your employer. Unless approved by your employer, you  may make any post on this  Kwacha Offshore sponsored blog. In fact apply this advice to  similar forum, concerning any matter involving your employer, its competitors or vendors, either under your name, anonymously, under a screen name, or communicating through another person. Violation of such policy has resulted in dismissal for an employee at Google. .  Mark Jen, a former Google employee, started blogging about his impressions of the company when he was first hired and was let go within one month.  A Delta Airlines flight attendant was fired after posting inappropriate content of herself in her Delta Airlines uniform.  Friendster released an employee after she was overly candid about her work experiences there.

Don’t let it happen to you on this blog.

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