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We’ve all heard the stories of those whose imprudent online postings (usually involving some choice words about an employer or a poor choice of photos of themselves) cost them a job. In the past few weeks it happened to a New York City government staffer, who resigned after posting her views about the President (whom she dubbed “O-dumb-a”) and his handling of the brouhaha over the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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These are gaffes, and the people who made them should know better.
But lately I’ve been pondering the opposite situation. In this era of online engagement and revelation, can it ever be a problem to reveal too little or to have no online persona at all?
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This is a tricky topic--how to handle having cancer while having a job. One of our fabulous commenters, HUHoney60, posted this link to a NYTimes article about returning to work after a cancer diagnosis/treatment and I thought we should discuss. Some people, as I mentioned a few weeks ago, hide their cancer from coworkers. Others, um, like me, turn it into a career (the column! the book! the blog!). And then there are a whole lot of people in that gray area in between. But what's the best way to handle it? Read More »
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To some, a cancer diagnosis is a very private thing. For me, it was the complete opposite--I'm an oversharer by nature so it never occurred to me not to tell people (plus, I had a supportive workplace, which I know factors huge in this). That's how I've coped. But some people--for a... Read More »
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