I’ll never forget a few years back when I was so offended by one of the super star bloggers out there. She made some comment about how people who had been laid off were lazy or weren’t good enough to keep their jobs in the first place. Something along those lines. Well, I was one of those who was laid off when 60% of my company was let go back in 2008. It wasn’t because I was lazy or because I didn’t do a good job. I’ll never forget reading that post, and here we are almost four years later. I was already devastated and then to read that was just so hurtful and really just showed her naiveté.

And while I still read her every now and then, I always have a slightly bad taste in my mouth while doing so. I think she learned her lesson though because she followed up with no less than two apology posts. And not that I like revenge, but I thought it was interesting when she ended up getting laid off about a year later.

You just never know who you’re going to offend regardless of the topic, so people need to be careful.