And tell me how it's different. If someone I work with happened to look at FR to see what kind of stuff I posted, they might discover not only that I support certain political candidates, but what I think of some our departmental procedures and even, by inference, some of them. Are you saying that would give them the right to to file a grievance with my employer to have me terminated. Where the h*ll is my right to a life apart from my job? And again I ask, what would be the difference? The only difference I see is that here there are more people voicing their opinions, and on a blog there is basically just one.
Did I miss your avatar where you are in uniform on company property, or standing at your place of business smiling and waving under the corporate logo?
If I wrote "semi-fictional" stories about my workplace on Free Republic and then identified my workplace to the general public, I would fully expect my employer to fire me if they found out.