Petite Anglaise got 'dooced' and sues

by oldfrog Wed Mar 21st, 2007 at 05:31:43 PM EST

Petite Anglaise got 'dooced' and sues
by Guy
Petite Anglaise, fellow blogger and double-whammy style winner of our very own 2006 Satin Pajama Awards in the categories Best Expat Weblog and Best Personal Weblog was fired from her job because of her blogging activities, or 'dooced' in weblog lingo. Her plight is receiving major news coverage, as you will see below the fold.
Catherine Sanderson, as we now know her true name to be, won't be leaving her job without putting up a legal fight first. I'll let the media tell the rest of the story.
From CNN:
Unmarried mother Catherine Sanderson -- "La Petite Anglaise" to 3,000 regular readers of her Internet diary -- is launching legal action in France, claiming unfair dismissal against accountancy firm Dixon Wilson, British media reports say.
From The Telegraph:
But partners at the leading British accountancy firm Dixon Wilson alleged that she made herself and therefore the firm identifiable by including her own photograph on the weblog. They also complained that she used office time to work on it.

Diary here
the story is commented on the French "judicial" blog
Journal d'un avocat AKA Maître Eolas.

read the comments here

and here
letter of notice

Petite Anglaise blog here

Dixon Wilson has better make up before they completely ruin their image

Petite Anglaise got 'dooced' and sues | 3 comments (3 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Though hardly the first doocing I am aware of (4.00 / 2)

it is one of the worst:

It seems one would have had to be a real detective to figure out she worked for Dixon Wilson at all, and nothing on her blog seems controversial nor perjorative toward them under any conceiveable interpretation.

I find very disturbing the absolute casualness of the belief companies have that the off time-activities of their employees are automatically under their authority and control. It is more than medieval.

But this is the most outrageous case I have seen.

The Fates are kind.

by Gaianne on Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 at 02:19:07 AM EST

Re: Though hardly the first doocing I am aware of (none / 1)

I find very disturbing the absolute casualness of the belief companies have that the off time-activities of their employees are automatically under their authority and control.

Nothing new, really. In the late '80s my high school decided that any time three or more students were in the same place, whatever they were doing would be considered a "school event." Using that logic, you and your two friends going to the grocery store on a Sunday morning would be subject to school policy.

Companies are hypersensitive about image and control. It wouldn't surprise me if they fired her not so much for her page, but as a warning to other employees.

by lychee on Thu Mar 22nd, 2007 at 10:30:15 PM EST
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That's about the time the New World Order was (none / 1)

announced.

Didn't wait a moment to begin the training, did they?

any time three or more

Principal thought he was Jesus?

The Fates are kind.

by Gaianne on Fri Mar 23rd, 2007 at 01:01:57 PM EST
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