[teejers1]

I work for a media company that frowns on social media. My agreement states that I can’t post anything about my assignment. NBD since I still use a flip phone but it’s tough on some younger colleagues who use photos as promotion tools.

what happened to your shoe phone?

Only Phogge and The Chief* know for sure what happened to the shoe phone, and they discussed it in the Cone of Silence, so good luck on that one.



*  Don't think even Maxwell Smart knows about it.

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I work for a media company that frowns on social media. My agreement states that I can’t post anything about my assignment. NBD since I still use a flip phone but it’s tough on some younger colleagues who use photos as promotion tools.

Thanks for sharing.  So I can see a policy that prohibits Tweeting about work assignments (not sure that happened here).

Also, in re-reading the article linked above, the reason for the suspension was that the Tweet linking the Kobe rape article "undermined the reporting of her colleagues at WaPo."  I can actually understand this as a general rule.  But otoh, unless you outlaw use of social media altogether by all reporters on WaPo (which is unimaginable in this day and age), when will a WaPo employees NOT be undermining a colleague's work at WaPo, unless every tweet is in lockstep with every published article?  Again, that seems fanciful.

Anyway, interesting (and nuanced) situation.

[teejers1]

I work for a media company that frowns on social media. My agreement states that I can’t post anything about my assignment. NBD since I still use a flip phone but it’s tough on some younger colleagues who use photos as promotion tools.

what happened to your shoe phone?

Only Phogge and The Chief* know for sure what happened to the shoe phone, and they discussed it in the Cone of Silence, so good luck on that one.



*  Don't think even Maxwell Smart knows about it.

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I work for a media company that frowns on social media. My agreement states that I can’t post anything about my assignment. NBD since I still use a flip phone but it’s tough on some younger colleagues who use photos as promotion tools.

Thanks for sharing.  So I can see a policy that prohibits Tweeting about work assignments (not sure that happened here).

Also, in re-reading the article linked above, the reason for the suspension was that the Tweet linking the Kobe rape article "undermined the reporting of her colleagues at WaPo."  I can actually understand this as a general rule.  But otoh, unless you outlaw use of social media altogether by all reporters on WaPo (which is unimaginable in this day and age), when will a WaPo employees NOT be undermining a colleague's work at WaPo, unless every tweet is in lockstep with every published article?  Again, that seems fanciful.

Anyway, interesting (and nuanced) situation.