The former Intel engineer makes his opinions known on a Web site called FACE Intel, short for Former and Current Employees of Intel, which challenges the Santa Clara-based chip company's personnel practices. Intel has responded to what it contends are unfair assaults on its employees and reputation by blocking access to the Web site from Intel's computer network. But Intel is not the only company that has become a target of employee discontent on the Web. At a site called Adobe Trouble, Adobe Systems Inc. is under siege from anonymous attacks on Chief Executive Officer John Warnock and the company's financial performance. The traditional labor movement may have lost some of its vigor, but there is a growing worker rebellion on the Web.
Workers say they are overworked, underpaid, mistreated or fired for no good reason.
With the power and reach of the Web, this kind of job misery has found a lot of company. Disgruntled workers in greater numbers are firing up their hard drives to express their work rage. But some companies contend people are taking that rage to extremes. And they're fighting back. Adobe Systems' legal team is working to shut down the Adobe Trouble site.