Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
Would you give someone your password to get a job? What about quitting a site to get a job?
I would not. It is none of their business. :nono:
I would not. It is none of their business. :nono:
Would You Give Up Your Password to Get a Job?
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Even spokespeople for facebook said if an employer asks you for your password, you do not have to give it up. In fact, it's a violation of facebook's user agreement to give it out. So you can just tell your prospective employer that to keep in accordance with facebook's terms and conditions, you cannot give them your password and any employer should respect that or it would look bad if you violated their T&C's just for your own advantage
I'll gladly give them my password to freeones though. I think every employer should know I like to see a girl fist her own ass
I'll gladly give them my password to freeones though. I think every employer should know I like to see a girl fist her own ass
PirateKing
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I don't even have a facebook, but maybe that works against me since employers like keeping tabs on their employees.
Mayhem
Banned
Employers checking you out online (Facebook, Myspace, etc., as well as just Googling your name and seeing what comes up) has been around for years. The password thing is pretty fucked up though. I gave up on Facebook before learning that much about it, so I don't know exactly what you're giving up.
I wonder if this will spawn the age of "alias" Facebook pages. A separate thing that you keep unobtrusive and bland in case the Pin-Stripe Gestapo asks for your papers.
I wonder if this will spawn the age of "alias" Facebook pages. A separate thing that you keep unobtrusive and bland in case the Pin-Stripe Gestapo asks for your papers.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
:yesyes: Employers are going to have to learn how to stay out of people's lives. We are not slaves like many of them believe we are.
This is another reason Unions are still needed.
It goes for any site.
Will E Worm
Conspiracy...
Smoke a bong full of Fruit Loops, go back to bed
and watch the Midmorning Movie.
Call into work, call into work around 11:00 o'clock,
tell the boss you smoked some Fruit Loops
and you're watching a movie,
and you'll be in around 2:00 o'clock if you feel like it.
That's the way you gotta treat the boss,
you can't take shit from a guy just because you work for him.
Let him know who the real boss is, tell him it's your job.
Hey, it's my job, I'll do it my way! Carlin
If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.
Jeffrey Jones
It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.
Frank Murphy
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty
and watch the Midmorning Movie.
Call into work, call into work around 11:00 o'clock,
tell the boss you smoked some Fruit Loops
and you're watching a movie,
and you'll be in around 2:00 o'clock if you feel like it.
That's the way you gotta treat the boss,
you can't take shit from a guy just because you work for him.
Let him know who the real boss is, tell him it's your job.
Hey, it's my job, I'll do it my way! Carlin
If you're an employer, you want to hire an employee who'll do their job, not do your bidding.
Jeffrey Jones
It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.
Frank Murphy
It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford
The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.
J. Paul Getty
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
I don't use any social network sites other than LinkedIn (and I haven't logged in there for I don't know how long). I really don't understand why people use them unless it pertains to their job/career (like an entertainer, writer or something along those lines). But it is becoming VERY common for employers to ask about your participation in such sites.
I agree with Will that it's none of their business. But if you refuse, you probably won't get the job. And even the ones that don't/won't ask for a password may ask you to log in on a company computer (that probably has a keystroke logger on it
)... so they can "review your online behavior".
For an assignment related to our defense division several years ago, I had to take a lie detector test. I thought that was fairly creepy and invasive. And this was after I had to undergo a psychological test to get that job/promotion in the first place. I swear I think that psych test was part of why I didn't get an assignment in Brazil. Apparently there was something about me that suggested I might have ended up like those Secret Service agents recently. And truth be told, I probably would have.
I agree with Will that it's none of their business. But if you refuse, you probably won't get the job. And even the ones that don't/won't ask for a password may ask you to log in on a company computer (that probably has a keystroke logger on it
)... so they can "review your online behavior".For an assignment related to our defense division several years ago, I had to take a lie detector test. I thought that was fairly creepy and invasive. And this was after I had to undergo a psychological test to get that job/promotion in the first place. I swear I think that psych test was part of why I didn't get an assignment in Brazil. Apparently there was something about me that suggested I might have ended up like those Secret Service agents recently. And truth be told, I probably would have.
Here is the deal with this....
It sucks that anyone would actually ask for your Facebook password, and I'd have to be in pretty bad straits to want to work for a company that would do such a thing.
That said, if I WERE in such a situation where I had to take any job that was offered to me, I'd just create a fake FB account and give that out. Or tell them I don't have a FB account, and set my current one to uber-private so that they couldn't tell it was mine.
The legal problem with giving away your password is...it gives that person the ability to see things your friends have posted, etc....and that is not fair for them. Someone is gonna get sued over this eventually.
It sucks that anyone would actually ask for your Facebook password, and I'd have to be in pretty bad straits to want to work for a company that would do such a thing.
That said, if I WERE in such a situation where I had to take any job that was offered to me, I'd just create a fake FB account and give that out. Or tell them I don't have a FB account, and set my current one to uber-private so that they couldn't tell it was mine.
The legal problem with giving away your password is...it gives that person the ability to see things your friends have posted, etc....and that is not fair for them. Someone is gonna get sued over this eventually.
Petra
Cult Mother and Simpering Cunt
Fuck! Roald would fire me on the spot if he logged into my facebook! He'd see the collection of penis pics I put up everytime a member sends me one and get penis envy!
But seriously...this is going a little far on the part of the employers. I've even read accounts where colleges and high schools are making students 'friend' the school so the school can keep tabs on them.
I've read of a few accounts of people who got turned down because they weren't into social networking. It's becoming a damned if you do, damned if you don't type thing.
If you were stupid enough to use your real name on your facebook account (or any social networking), setting yourself to private or creating a fake profile isn't going to work thanks to google. Especially if you've had it for a long time. That shit gets into the search archives and stays there for a very long time until google recrawls the page. If it doesn't get enough traffic, it could potentially stay there for a very long time and there's jack crap you can do about it (ask the girls who get drunk, put their naked pics on their facebook and it ends up on forums like this with their real names).
So if you used your real name, try to hide your social networking account from a potential employer and their HR is savvy enough to find it, you'll be turned down for lying instead of simply telling them no.
But seriously...this is going a little far on the part of the employers. I've even read accounts where colleges and high schools are making students 'friend' the school so the school can keep tabs on them.
I've read of a few accounts of people who got turned down because they weren't into social networking. It's becoming a damned if you do, damned if you don't type thing.
If you were stupid enough to use your real name on your facebook account (or any social networking), setting yourself to private or creating a fake profile isn't going to work thanks to google. Especially if you've had it for a long time. That shit gets into the search archives and stays there for a very long time until google recrawls the page. If it doesn't get enough traffic, it could potentially stay there for a very long time and there's jack crap you can do about it (ask the girls who get drunk, put their naked pics on their facebook and it ends up on forums like this with their real names).
So if you used your real name, try to hide your social networking account from a potential employer and their HR is savvy enough to find it, you'll be turned down for lying instead of simply telling them no.
Ace Bandage
The one and only.
I consider social networking to be a bane on civilization that will eventually lead to the downfall and destruction of mankind.
Thus, I have not a Facebook or a Twitter.
Thus, I have not a Facebook or a Twitter.
Rey C.
Racing is life... anything else is just waiting.
That's the odd thing: people now consider you to be weird or a social misfit if you DON'T have a Facebook or Twitter account.
Remember a couple of years ago, at census time, when all the paranoid schizo, tighty righties were yelping about not filling out the census forms? "The gumbment is a comin' to git me!!!" :eek: Yet their "queen" (Michele Bachmann) has both a Facebook and a Twitter account! It's amazing to me how many people are afraid that the government is compiling databases on them... when IN FACT, the government uses Experian, just as many others do. And in addition to basic background and credit checks, Experian also uses social networks you're a member of to see just what you've been up to. Ya see, just because the government can't compile info on you, there's nothing stopping them from using data in a private company's database. Ain't it just grand?!
Another thing that I read about is HR reps asking employees to "friend" them, and I guess that gives them deeper access to your (supposedly) private activities... as well as who your other friends are. When I read this thread, I was thinking how funny it would be if I had a Facebook account and "Sam Fisher" was on my friends list (hey, we're just talking hypotheticals here). So the HR rep would see this racist guy who appears to have links to Storm Front as one of my "friends". I would be soooo fired!
GodsEmbryo
Closed Account
Only if me give me their password. I like to know who I'm working with as well. Otherwise: keep the fuck out of my private life.
L3ggy
Special Operations FOX-HOUND
This.
oh shit, id be fucked effectively if they ever saw the shit i post about 
Nope. Never.
I think there are abuses on both ends. I see employees absolutely abuse FML. To the point that is hurts people who have a real need to use it. Some employees have a sense of entitlement that goes beyond delivering a service to the company they work for in exchange for fair compensation.
I've also seen HR departments in companies rule with an iron fist, lie, and bully.
Neither is good and if I was going to err on the side of anyone, it would be the people, not the corporations.
I think there are abuses on both ends. I see employees absolutely abuse FML. To the point that is hurts people who have a real need to use it. Some employees have a sense of entitlement that goes beyond delivering a service to the company they work for in exchange for fair compensation.
I've also seen HR departments in companies rule with an iron fist, lie, and bully.
Neither is good and if I was going to err on the side of anyone, it would be the people, not the corporations.
I have two Facebook accounts and just closed the one with my main name, even though I hardly ever used it and even though I did "friend" one of my boys and knew that quite a few people have looked to connect with me through it. I see way too much negative about Facebook, but sadly it will be necessary to use it in a decade or two.
Bottom line is I don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry I've ever ran across in my life knowing every single moment of every day of my life. Screw them. Crazy thing is I Googled Facebook accounts of girls I used to like in high school and even in college and some of their pages weren't locked and I could see so much of their personal shit it threw me.
I also know my ex's password and have logged in on her account a couple times since she left just to see what she's been doing. lol
Bottom line is I don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry I've ever ran across in my life knowing every single moment of every day of my life. Screw them. Crazy thing is I Googled Facebook accounts of girls I used to like in high school and even in college and some of their pages weren't locked and I could see so much of their personal shit it threw me.
I also know my ex's password and have logged in on her account a couple times since she left just to see what she's been doing. lol
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