It used to be the half-hour breakfast griping sessions or the huddle at the office pantry. Now workers are finding new ways to vent their frustrations or air their opinions about their employers and careers. Cyber venting has arisen. Here employees find a safe haven amongst the other like-minded disgruntled to vent and share their anonymous emotional upheavals and professional disappointments to sympathetic listeners. I have been passed up for my due promotion for the 3rd time at work.
Management is useless, poor and simple.
No, instead they would rather hire a vulture of a consultant. Great job, guys. The messages range from discontent with management to more serious instances of flagrant rage. Whatever the message may be, it is raising public relations headaches and managerial nightmares for employers. Because such messages are hard to be accounted for or traced, employers can never be sure if the post is being authored by an employee or if the source is a saboteur wanting to bring the competition down.