Hating your job, in real life and online

After a hard day at work I just wanna sit down, put my feet up and relax. After a hard day I wanna do that all the lot more. I don't really get those who have the energy to rant on and on about how terrible their job is such as those mentioned in the study by Richards and Kosmala. However, while I am an employee I am also a manager and with it comes a responsibility and sense of pride in what I do.

“Richards’ (2008) study suggests work blogging should be viewed as an expanding forum for self-organised employee resistance and misbehaviour, rejecting a reductive view of blogging platforms as forums for ‘Cyber-waffle’”

I disagree with Richards’ idea. Blogging is not simply a forum for “cyber-waffle”, people with complex and relevant ideas are able to express themselves and share what they believe or think with the world. Those who find solace in discussing their troubles and hardships in their workplace are more than welcome to do so, with care. But those who are simply online to “slag” off their employers, co-workers and workplaces are doing no justice to themselves or their workplace, an act I consider complete cowardice.
Taken as a serious matter, blogging about workplace issues could help those in serious need of guidance, from peers and others browsing similar blogs to seek help, but if work if such a hardship for those who blog for such reasons then professional help within the professional world may be a more practical way to go.