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Why I don't talk about where I work and why its important to me (2015)

29 points| brudgers | 7 years ago |harthur.wordpress.com | reply

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[+] NormMalvo|7 years ago|reply
I do the same. I have to. If the wrong people find out, they’d launch a social media campaign against my employer. I had to leave a previous high profile position due fallout from allegations of harassment against me. Some vocal people think I should never hold a job of any kind. Thank you Twitter and Facebook.
[+] akuji1993|7 years ago|reply
Why not just go and tell everybody you work for "FooBar Solutions" one town over? They don't have a website? Well we are early stage, just gathering money, so no time yet for a website. And you should have most people off your back.

Having experienced something like this with my last SO, I feel you though, OP. It's something that can stay on your mind constantly and is very worrisome at times. Hope you hid your tracks for good or he lost interest.

[+] dqh|7 years ago|reply
There are a lot of drawbacks to lying, though.
[+] jbob2000|7 years ago|reply
Well that was disappointing. Here I thought I would get a wonderful explanation about ego and how western culture is all about work and we have no personality outside of our jobs.

But no, just a stalker. Something you can solve with a restraining order. Not something you need to move jobs for.

[+] lwhalen|7 years ago|reply
A restraining order is just a piece of paper. It solves very little in the face of a determined 'admirer', and stops nothing. Yes it MAY give the police/legal system recourse AFTER the subject breaches the terms, but in the meantime the terms are breached (at varying levels of severity/urgency) and the police are minutes away at the very best of times.
[+] splitbrain|7 years ago|reply
TL;DR because of a stalker
[+] matte_black|7 years ago|reply
Was expecting something a bit more profound.
[+] a_bonobo|7 years ago|reply
I found this interesting because, this is a man who's left his job and went a little bit 'dark' because of a mentally-ill former colleague who got obsessed with him - how many women are out there who left jobs because of creeps or stalkers, and then went 'dark'?
[+] brianmcc|7 years ago|reply
Appears to be written by a female named Heather - unless I'm missing something?