Comments on: Dont let your personal life hurt your professional life aka the Bill Clinton, Tom Cruise, Russel Crowe syndrome top 5 http://thepennysaved.com/2008/05/19/dont-let-your-personal-life-hurt-your-professional-life-aka-the-bill-clinton-tom-cruise-russel-crowe-syndrome-top-5/ Personal Finance, career, investing, retirement, saving and debt blog Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:48:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Mrs. Micah http://thepennysaved.com/2008/05/19/dont-let-your-personal-life-hurt-your-professional-life-aka-the-bill-clinton-tom-cruise-russel-crowe-syndrome-top-5/#comment-1135 Mrs. Micah Tue, 20 May 2008 19:18:35 +0000 http://thepennysaved.com/2008/05/19/dont-let-your-personal-life-hurt-your-professional-life-aka-the-bill-clinton-tom-cruise-russel-crowe-syndrome-top-5/#comment-1135 Indeed. The company doesn't have to keep you if you don't make them look good and if you don't make things nice around the office. Obviously, there are ridiculous reasons to fire people....like being gay or being in a certain religion. But if you express the former through an unprofessional myspace page that hurts your professional image (vs. a friendly one that your grandmother could read without freaking out, even if it's not super-professional...though that may be pushing it in some industries where I think it's better just not to have myspace) or through proselytizing your coworkers...that doesn't make the company look good and creates uber-awkwardness. Or get a job where the people don't care, if you can find one. Indeed. The company doesn’t have to keep you if you don’t make them look good and if you don’t make things nice around the office. Obviously, there are ridiculous reasons to fire people….like being gay or being in a certain religion.

But if you express the former through an unprofessional myspace page that hurts your professional image (vs. a friendly one that your grandmother could read without freaking out, even if it’s not super-professional…though that may be pushing it in some industries where I think it’s better just not to have myspace) or through proselytizing your coworkers…that doesn’t make the company look good and creates uber-awkwardness.

Or get a job where the people don’t care, if you can find one.

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