Hypocrasy ...

Some director at my ex employer recently started a blog service for all the managers. It was a place intended for the top management to write to the masses and a place where the bottom rung could post their views without worrying about beuraucracy, etc.

Well, when I heard about it I got the feeling that the objective would be to make it a campus kind of environment ... significantly different to the stiff necked atmosphere that exist in offices. I mean thats what blogs are for!

A close friend recently faced an incident that was an eye opener though and proved this blog to be one more hollow initiative for someone to put on their resumes, while nothing really changed.

Some big guy posted some stuff, which left out a group of managers. One of these managers posted a jovial comment on this. This big guy took it very seriously and mailed all the managers down the hierarchy expressing concern.

Now, this big guy probably was fine with comments getting posted openly. But all these guys down the chain, don't like the big guy to know anything without them knowing it first. And the poor fellow who was only looking to make a pleasant point, suddenly had a bunch of loonies jumping on his head.

I ask you ... if on a corporate blog, a person can't even reply to what is written ... can't even speak his mind ... then why bloody have a blog in the first place? ... Its perfectly fine to get downloads over email. I mean that is something everyone is used to and no one has any twisted mis-conceptions that they can speak their mind over email!!

- Freedom, the unknown ideal