I created this website because I like to journal. I find writing down my thoughts helps me process things in a productive way. I had just started a new job so my plan was to document my thoughts and feelings about it. The job was nothing special, just a gas station job, but I thought it was cool the company’s policies explicitly said they wouldn’t police anything their users said online.
Most companies tell employees they can’t say anything bad about the company. They use threatening language suggesting you might be fired for the slightest negative remark. This company went the other way, and I thought that was cool. I decided to embrace the freedom the company offered its employees, registered a domain name, set up a WordPress installation and… got screwed.
Right as I was about to push the website to live, the company updated its employee handbook. Suddenly there was a section saying:
So I gave up. I shelved the website and put drafts of a dozen posts away in storage where nobody but me would ever see them. I was sad and frustrated, but hey, odds are nobody would have read my journal entries anyway.
That was six months ago. I quit the job last week. Now I’m going to share some of my old journal entries. Odds are nobody will read them. But hey, if anyone does… hi!
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