So, I was in the paper a few weeks back, and I thought it went unnoticed, since nobody sent me any nasty emails, like last time. However, I found some exciting things in my website guestbook, which I hardly ever check. However, there were only 2 things listed! For your entertainment purposes, here they are…

In the Boston Globe article, you wrote: “The whole blogging thing was so new back then, I never expected anyone to find it and read it,” said Burch, who was fired in May 2004. “I wrote in the blog to let off steam, not stir things up, but they viewed my e-mail signature as some kind of open invitation to read those comments. That wasn’t the case at all but they made me out to be some kind of terrorist.” What in the world were you thinking, that putting a link to such comments in your WORK email wasn’t “an open invitation to read those comments”?? Do you know that the computer in question belonged to your employer? That your employer owned the computer and the network it was on, and all legal liabilities resulting from that? Did you honestly think that your work email should reference, in any fashion, comments you made about your co-workers? What did you think–that through some mechanism, only SOME people would follow that link but OTHERS wouldn’t? You obviously have a twisted, warped view of how the work world goes. You obviously have a twisted, selfish view that you can do whatever you want, at any time, in any fashion, with no recriminations. You don’t understand responsibility. You are one of the most selfish individuals, unfortunately so representative of people today. You want to do something, therefore you do it–without giving any thought to the consequences. After all, in your mind there can and should be no consequences, right? Because you can do whatever you want to do regardless, right? Selfish. Pure selfish. The real world works like this: how you present yourself at work is important to how others perceive you at work. You may scream “BUT THAT’S DISCRIMINATION!” all you want–and you’re right, it is discrimination. Humans discriminate all the time. We discriminate among menu items at the restaurant. We discriminate among potential spouses. And when we see a selfish idiot at work acting selfish without any thought to what it means to those around him, we consider that person a loser. Fortunately, there’s no law against discriminating against selfish losers.

Ah, but it’s so philanthropic and generous to go and dis a complete stranger anonymously on the Innernets! How “representative of people today!” Um, I didn’t mail the comments to my coworkers, if you had actually read the article, you would have seen that. It’s called “reading comprehension.”

I can understand why you were fired from your job. I mean, really, you should have had more sense than to include such a thing in work email.

I’m glad we cleared that up! I’m so glad you voiced your opinion, because without it, I would have been completely confused as to why I no longer am employed at my former job!

Wow, I love the innernets!