Not A Good Use Of Blogs

Saw this in the Inquirer, and I found it to be an example of bad blogging:

Comments on blog lead to firing of paramedic
By Keith Herbert Inquirer Staff Writer

Excerpt:

Plymouth Community Ambulance, already under investigation for questionable spending, is dealing with another problem - an employee whose Web log got her fired.

John Durante, acting president of the ambulance's board of directors, said yesterday that the employee was fired Jan. 13 for misuse of a computer and "inappropriate comments" about emergency victims on her blog.

Durante declined to identify the former employee other than to say she was a female paramedic. Durante said he had not seen the photos and text on the woman's blog.
"It's a personnel matter and I can't say anything else," Durante said.

The site, which is no longer available over the Internet, reportedly contained photos and captions of people who needed Plymouth Ambulance's services. One image showed Mexicans jumping from a building fire with the words "Mexican jumping beans" as the caption, according to the Times Herald of Norristown.

The blog reportedly contained a statement suggesting that Norristown's poor residents used 911 calls and the ambulance as a "taxi service." (Full text)

If you have a problem with your employer and you put it on a blog, you are going to find yourself in a world of misery eventually...especially when you combine it with making disparaging remarks about people you are employed to assist. Those people didn't deserve that - those citizens of Norristown. Why not be proactive and help educate them in areas where there might be a lack of undertsanding?

Maybe that is over simplifying the issue at hand, I don't know. All I know is that in my mind, if I had to call paramedics, it would be a very big deal to me.....not everyone likes their job or career choice every day, but few can actually risk being unemployed (at least not myself or any people I know)....