Dirty laundry

Airing your thoughts on the internet means that anyone might stumble across them, including your employer. In 2004 flight attendant Ellen Simonetti was initially suspended and then fired from her job at the American airline Delta because of photos posted on her blog ‘Queen of Sky’, in which she wrote about the adventures of an anonymous air hostess. One of the photos showed her dressed in uniform, with the company logo visible, which prompted the airline to take action. Similarly, Catherine Sanderson was sacked in 2006 from her secretarial job when her boss stumbled upon her popular blog, ‘Petite Anglaise’, about her life as a Brit in Paris. Although she never named her employers, they claimed that the photos of her on the site identified her, and therefore the firm. Sanderson won a groundbreaking case in which she sued the company for wrongful dismissal and has since written a book, also called Petite Anglaise.

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