Say Goodbye

I know I have said goodbye before, but this time I actually mean it. It's not a "Oh its November! time to say I am quitting" fetish going on.

Two months ago, despite taking a lot of care and attention to anonymity, someone who did not like what I write on my blog managed to find out who I was. Not only content was the person content to do this, they also decided to contact my manager and complain directly to them. I believe the words "unprofessional" and "reflect badly on the organisation" were used. My manager then had the momentous task of wading through hundreds of blog entries.

To her credit my manager did not immediately go ballistic and take disciplinary action. Instead we had a informal chat that included why I had started my blog, whether it was something that I wanted to continue and whether there could be other ways to fulfil that aspiration. She then talked me through various other cases of what has happened in high profile cases in the press where bloggers were uncovered and how their careers had been affected. As she has high hopes for my development in the organisation, she did not want something that I either had said already or would say in the future to impact either on myself or on the charity. Though I felt my blog was always about free speech and making observations (initially about psychology and then about life outside it), I could see her logic. Also I realise that I have not been as kind as I could have been, but then again it would have been a fairly insincere blog if it was about me being happy and sunny the whole time after my billionth rejection letter. Although she liked the blog itself (thanks boss!), my manager suggest I write a final post, and then sign off but leave the blog up as an account of this part of my life.

So with that in mind, plus other things, I am saying farewell. If there was an overriding message I would say that "Life goes on despite your plans not working out exactly" or "Plan B can be pretty sweet." I wish all my regular readers well in wherever they end up, the blogroll writers on the side to get what they set out to do.

Bye