i have a blog since two years now. I got hate post comments too but in dealing with these nasty visitors in my blog with dignity, eventually they goes off. Mostly, they want to be noticed...

And talking about work... Hehe, one must be careful with that. I talked also about my work but it is more on the humour side or mostly on my funny situations at work, but not criticizing a co worker or the Boss VERY badly.
Slight is ok, lol
Blog is entertaning, depends on how the blog owners' state of mind too.

If she is full of hate, she gets hated also.
If her blog is full of negative feelings, it drags down the readers.
Readers are reading blogs to be entertained and they dont want to know one's problems. Readers got their own problems already to sort out.

Lately, a visitor came to my blog and try to pin me down.
I let my "fans" deal with her, LOL

read the entry and posted comments here:
http://francescainfrance.blogspot.co...ilandaise.html
About UK:
http://francescainfrance.blogspot.co...ers-in-uk.html