America Online recently provided a California newspaper, the Orange County Register , with the name of an employee who had created a website featuring rumors, gossip, and complaints about the newspaper. Yet had the Unregistered News covered its tracks better, it might still be publishing today. Because lots of disgruntled employees have websites on the Internet if you know where to look, and sometimes even if you don't. Frankly, I didn't know where to begin looking for websites by employees lampooning their bosses. The Waitressing Gripe Page , adheres to the philosophy that waitressing would be a great job if it weren't for customers.
Similar sites exist for pizza drivers, drive-thru restaurant workers, cabbies, and hostesses.
Speaking of faking work, Don's Boss Page helps you pretend to be working while you are sleeping or surfing the net. I was about to give up on my quest to find a site like the short-lived Unregistered News when a journalist friend let me in on News Mait Writers' Cooperative . The site has a Newspaper Intelligence Page, which is mostly bitching and moaning about low wages and morale at newspapers. The site also has extensive links to listings of journalism jobs, and is conducting an unofficial salary survey of newspapers throughout the country. Putting the Yellow Back in Journalism.