Suckers, I recently outed a friend’s anonymous blog to some people on The Facebooks. I felt horrible, so I asked another friend — Cols — to coin a term to define my action.
blob (v.)
LEXICOL
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Just another reason to give up on being anonymous.
PS. I think I’m the one that outed your blobbing. I think we both have trouble keeping our mouths shut.
Exactly, Racel. You can’t hide in the interwebs.
PS – I totes outed myself on the blobbing once I realized what happened. I might send candy & flowers. I feel like an ass.
Well at least you admit your mistakes, lest she rip your head off and ….
For reals, we all go into HR because we’re uhm…interested in people. Meaning – we like to GOSSIP, not necessarily maliciously at all. I actually wrote several papers in grad school about the positive effects of/need to deal realistically with gossip in the workplace. Work is most people’s #1 community so of course, in any community, there’s conversation about things people care about. To assume otherwise is, at best, naive.
@RachL LOL, see??? I was trained effectively!
@FrannyO Wait, you wrote several papers on gossip? That’s so awesome. FYI, I have a PhD in gossip.
thanks for the shout out yo. you can blob me anyday …
You’re one big meany, but you’re still damn sexy
@Cols You’re such a blobwhore.
@Eddie What?! There is no sexy on an HR blog!
@Laurie – several meaning – ONE paper or maybe ONE and a rewrite for another class that I turned in as new work.
Laurie, I had to share that with a friend who got outted in a blog, and she loved it. She also suggested it could be paired with “dooced – getting fired because of what you wrote in a blog.”
@FrannyO That’s good enough in my book to make you a gossip expert!
@KellyO Dooced is good, but I wonder if being dooced over — as a trend? Most CEOs have a freakin’ blog, these days. (Who gets fired for blogging in 2008? That’s so 2003!)
doh! Way to confess Laurie, class act on that front. Gretchen covers how confidentiality is critical in an HR pro here=> http://human-strategies.blogspot.com/2008/06/let-us-now-praise-hr-generalists.html
and I commented that I think it risks authenticity so I think you win on the authentic side of HR