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Aw, shucks. Sometimes — and, we should admit, only rarely — we love you guys. This is one of those times.

Friday afternoon we put out a request. We'd heard that an editorial staffer had been fired from a major publishing house for bitching on a blog about her job and her coworkers and her bosses. (Conveniently, we have a boss who encourages us to bitch about things. But — and here's a free tip to other bloggers — insubordination in public venues is usually a bad idea.) We asked if any of you could point us to the blog in question, and, eventually, one of you did. Ladies and gentleman, we present you with the MySpace.com blog of bluegirl24ny, until last Tuesday a junior editor at Random House.

We imagine it's posts like this one, from June 6, that probably got our bluegirl in trouble:

Basically, with my co-worker leaving, my boss comes up with the brilliant idea that the five of us should start getting together every two weeks to talk amongst ourselves about title info, etc... so we all are working with the same information.... Okay, I'll say this once and then never again, but I have been telling her this FOR MONTHS!!!!!!!!! Regardless "her" bright idea was great - until she asked everyone else to leave except for me, and the two other girls I work with (one of whom is leaving in July) So, her second briliant idea, since she has no idea what we do anymore - is to ask us to first make a list of all of our current responsibilities. Warning bell starts humming here. That way we all have a clear idea of who's doing what and that leads into the next part of the assignment. Meet amongst yourselves sometime in the next two weeks and discuss the workflow, what should change, who should take on what responsibilities, and come to her at our next meeting with a new heirarchy of responsibilities.... Okay BIG FAT RED WARNING BELL is screaming in my head now.... Why the fuck is this OBVIOUSLY excecutive decision being passed to a group of 27 year olds? A group, I should mention, that contains two completely self-absorbed, power hungry, egotistical sorority girls who already think they're running the show by themselves?!?!?!?!?!?

Also, naming the company you hate, as bluegirl did on June 29, couldn't have helped.

But even without all that, we would have fired her anyway: She uses emoticons, constantly.

bluegirl24ny [MySpace.com]