How Blogging can cost you your job in the US Military

On August 9, 2010, Jet Blue Airways Flight 1052 from Pittsburgh landed at New York's JFK International Airport. Following an altercation with a passenger who refused to remain seated until the aircraft reached the gate, 38-year-old flight attendant Steven Slater announced over the public address system that he was quitting his job. "To the passenger who just called me a mother******, f*** you," he proclaimed, according to another passenger. "I've been in this business 20 years and I've had it." He then opened the emergency exit door, activated the inflatable chute, grabbed two beers from the galley, and slid down to the tarmac. He was soon arrested and charged with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, and trespassing. The incident caused a sensation, with Slater becoming an overnight hero to millions around the world who know what it means to be fed up with one's job and would love to enact "Take This Job and Shove It" in a big, splashy way.Fifteen days later, Lawrence Sellin, PhD, a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve serving his second deployment to Afghanistan, pulled his own version of Slater's getaway. In a UPI op-ed posted from Kabul titled "Outside View: PowerPoints 'R' Us," Col. Sellin began: "Throughout my career I have been known to walk that fine line between good taste and unemployment. I see no reason to change that now." Read More here 





Within 12 hours of the Colonel posting this on  his Blog he was sent for and fired. At least he didn't wait until he retired and wrote his book.