ok, so last week i had a very funny post or two involving an email that i had gotten at work... poking a bit of fun at a "morale-boosting" initiative that most people found rather silly. all a harmless bit of fluff, until i put up my auto-comment system this a.m. one of the first comments was under one of the posts in question, referring me to an entry on the fc website (see if you can find which one it is!). apparently a disgruntled former-or-current co-worker decided to send in a copy of the email, exactly as i had edited it to protect the last names of the innocent. while i don't think this was any more or less appropriate than my posting of the email in the first place, the simple truth is that the memo, posted to internal memos, now had a much wider audience than i had intended, and with my company's name out in plain view (whereas i hadn't put up the company name in my post (although an astute reader could have gone back through my archives and figured out where i work fairly easily)).

the end result of all this is that i yanked the two posts in question for the time being. i don't like to do stuff like this, but i also don't like being unemployed. my boss is the easily exciteable type, and i could easily see myself being summarily dismissed, even though i hadn't sent the memo in to be posted. luckily, i was able to pull down the posts before they were cached by google.