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Zalatix

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48. Because if employers want to pry into WORKERS' private lives

Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:35 PM

Mar 2012

then workers should have a right to pry into EMPLOYERS' private lives.

In fact, I would be in favor of a law barring people from STARTING businesses who have a habit of failing and doing mass layoffs. They can blacklist workers from having jobs, so let's blacklist them from opening businesses at all.

Yeah yeah, it'll hurt the economy. So does the mass culling of workers by prying into their private lives. This Facebook and credit check crap are all ways of enforcing conformity upon the populace: be good little drones IN YOUR PRIVATE LIFE or you won't get a job. Hell with that. Let's put the employers' skin in the game.

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Govt. agencies, colleges demand applicants' Facebook passwords [View all] trumad Mar 2012 OP

I would say NOYFB and walk out. hobbit709 Mar 2012 #1

F them, who with any sense wants to be involved with outfits like that. That, is just the RKP5637 Mar 2012 #2

I think I would have to do the same thing. hamsterjill Mar 2012 #18

Quite a lot of people would surrender their privacy for a paycheck. Selatius Mar 2012 #3

Very well said!!! We are a nation of whipped people. Forced into surrender in the RKP5637 Mar 2012 #5

A paycheck? Heck, we'll do it for a Groupon gratuitous Mar 2012 #8

........ marmar Mar 2012 #4

So create two accounts. One for colleges/employers, and one for fun (nt) Nye Bevan Mar 2012 #6

KandR GeorgeGist Mar 2012 #7

Demanding passwords is bullshit, and shouldn't be allowed. MineralMan Mar 2012 #9

Uhhh---OK--- trumad Mar 2012 #11

If my atheism is an issue for an employer, MineralMan Mar 2012 #22

Not if I did not tell him... trumad Mar 2012 #31

OK. And he's never going to find out, either? MineralMan Mar 2012 #32

And who then is the objective judge of what is or is not stupid, offensive stuff? LanternWaste Mar 2012 #12

Perfectly said.. trumad Mar 2012 #16

Whomever is looking at the information, actually. MineralMan Mar 2012 #24

And if you say no you don't get the job. trumad Mar 2012 #25

I can't answer that question. There's no specific MineralMan Mar 2012 #27

No---you would not get the job... trumad Mar 2012 #28

Me? I've already said I'd be glad to let them access my MineralMan Mar 2012 #30

I have absolutely nothing to hide on my FB page. liberalhistorian Mar 2012 #34

I'm not looking for a job. As I said, I'm self-employed since 1974. MineralMan Mar 2012 #35

Mutual trust, my ass Zalatix Mar 2012 #15

OK. You don't have to show employers anything. MineralMan Mar 2012 #26

Why don't they let you see their private gambling habits or their personal credit ratings? Zalatix Mar 2012 #37

For $25 you can get a pretty decent background check MineralMan Mar 2012 #40

Would that have dug up Dubya or Rmoney's habits? Zalatix Mar 2012 #41

Why? Were you thinking about applying for a job with them? MineralMan Mar 2012 #42

NOT changing the subject. If I applied for a job with KBToys while they were in business, Zalatix Mar 2012 #44

OK. Then it would have been easy to investigate Romney and Bain. MineralMan Mar 2012 #45

That'll expose a company owner's gambling habits? Really? Zalatix Mar 2012 #46

I'm sorry, I seem to have missed the relevance, really... MineralMan Mar 2012 #47

Because if employers want to pry into WORKERS' private lives Zalatix Mar 2012 #48

You do have that right. MineralMan Mar 2012 #49

This sounds like a joke. But, unfortunately, it is not. Who would be dumb enough to fork ladjf Mar 2012 #10

We have told our kids, what you put out there, IS what people think you are, benld74 Mar 2012 #13

I have no Facebook account. What then? Zalatix Mar 2012 #14

You're half-way to the point of being hired snooper2 Mar 2012 #17

My response to "Why don't you have a Facebook account?" Zalatix Mar 2012 #19

That's perfect., I may have to borrow that :) snooper2 Mar 2012 #20

I actually did interview applicants before I quit the working world. It's like having Game. Zalatix Mar 2012 #21

how about i give you my password for kissmyassbook instead? frylock Mar 2012 #23

Isn't this a blatant Fourth Amendment violation? Arkana Mar 2012 #29

Only if it is the government that wants your passwords. MineralMan Mar 2012 #33

No chrisa Mar 2012 #38

I personally would never give this information out at an interview. chrisa Mar 2012 #36

Why wouldn't the first words in response be: "I don't have a Facebook account"? riderinthestorm Mar 2012 #39

I have two accounts. One intended to get around bullshit like this. WhaTHellsgoingonhere Mar 2012 #43