Joe Gordon got his job back… but doesn’t want it anymore!
At the beginning of 2005, a Scottish blogger lost his job in an Edinburgh bookstore where he worked for eleven years because of his blog called The Woolamaloo Gazette. On this blog, published under his real name, he modified the name of the company he worked for from “Waterstone’s” to “Bastardstone’s.” Now, after three months of negociation between his trade union and Waterstone’s, the book chain accepted to give him his job back, as writes Out-Law.com in “Sacked Waterstone’s blogger offered his job back.”
To refresh your memory, here is a link to a previous article from Out-Law.com, “Blogger sacked by Waterstone’s.”
Joe Gordon was one the first bloggers in the U.K. to lose his job because of what he wrote on his blog. And his union has appealed against his dismissal and fought until Gordon was offered reinstatement. You’ll find more information in a note written by Gordon about a press release from his union.
Anyway, and this is perfectly understandable after such a conflict, Joe Gordon has decided to accept another job offer at Forbidden Planet Graphic Novels where he has already started a new blog.
Good luck, Joe!
