Waterstone’s blogger sacked
January 12th, 2005Waterstone’s sack member of staff for blogging (via everywhere). First person in the UK to have been fired for their blog; all for the odd anonymous flaming of his PHB, and one mention of “Bastardstone’s”. A worrying turn of events, since all his writing was done in his own free time and was by no means libellous or part of an overtly malicious campaign - it was just one guy sounding off about his job occasionally.
The branch in question is my local branch of Waterstone’s, funnily enough. I’ll endeavour to spend my money solely at Blackwell’s in future.