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With a significant economic slowdown and numerous layoffs in the United Sates, the newly unemployed are increasingly demonstrating their frustrations in public spheres such as the internet. Laid-off workers are venting about their bosses on blogs and web sites, while some have turned the occasion of their dismissal into a segue to a new career. Employers are generally unable to challenge former employees who vent, unless those employees make claims that might be considered slanderous or use explicitly confidential information for their own profiteering. Otherwise, laid off workers are perfectly within their rights to vent about a lost job.