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03-08-2012, 01:20 AM
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Heavily Armed Member
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Looking for a job? be ready to give up your face book password
You don't get the job unless they agree with you..... 
http://video.foxnews.com/v/149314249...job-applicants
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03-08-2012, 05:48 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Vermont
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Background checks in the past were inclusive of HS teachers, local PD, credit checks, even a medical hx
having access to what is basically a public forum (and soon to be a public utlity i hear) pales by comparission ~CS~
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03-08-2012, 06:21 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: New England
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I had a temp job as teenager emptying the old files of a large greeting card company that was moving locations.
The info they collected on their employes was amazing. In the 50s and 60s they were sending private detectives to interview neighbors, church members etc.
'Neighbors said they fight a lot'
'He likes to drink' etc.
These employes were typically company sales personal.
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03-08-2012, 06:25 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: South Florida
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BBQ
I had a temp job as teenager emptying the old files of a large greeting card company that was moving locations.
The info they collected on their employes was amazing. In the 50s and 60s they were sending private detectives to interview neighbors, church members etc.
'Neighbors said they fight a lot'
'He likes to drink' etc.
These employes were typically company sales personal.
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McCarthy Greeting Cards Company?
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03-08-2012, 06:27 AM
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I void warranties
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: AZ
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They are calling this news? Especially this "shoulder surfing" they talk about in the vid. 
Some companies have whole departments devoted to digging up every little bit of online info they can on new applicants. That's been going on for awhile.
Don't like the password thing, don't give it to them.
I don't blame them, I don't want to hire you either if you have crappy judgment and post stupid trash online and are friends with a bunch of drunk losers.
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Last edited by Jlarson; 03-08-2012 at 06:32 AM.
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03-08-2012, 06:29 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: New England
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jrannis
McCarthy Greeting Cards Company?
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I think they are now out of businesses, it was called "Rustcraft Greeting Cards"
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03-08-2012, 09:02 AM
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Electron Pathway Engineer
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Location: Ontario Canada
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Believe it or not, I have been witness to some local companies looking at Facebook activities of applicants before calling them in for an interview. At the time I thought nothing of it, but after watching this, I guess it may be a tool that some use to weigh their options based on what people publicly willingly divulge.
Like they say, once it's on the net- it's forever.
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03-08-2012, 09:20 AM
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Official Maine-iac
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Portland
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People have been fired for "inappropriate" comments on Twitter and pictures on Facebook, and even arrested for posting pictures of themselves that violated terms of parole.
If you're gonna willingly give the world that much access to your life, be prepared for the consequences that come with it. I have little sympathy.
-John
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03-08-2012, 09:45 AM
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Chief Electron Relocator
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Cornpatch USA
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Anyone is free to look at my Facebook page. Doesn't bother me one damned bit.
They ain't gonna find anything because there's NOTHING there.
They don't need my password to look at it, either. But that's Fox News for you.
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Last edited by 480sparky; 03-08-2012 at 09:49 AM.
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03-08-2012, 09:46 AM
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I hired my last helper based on his Facebook page.
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03-08-2012, 09:58 AM
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Coffee drinking member
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Location: IL
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So in other words ,, there are good reasons for Trolls to be trolling.
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Like Hank William's sang,, All My Trolling friends have settled down.. :-)
and FWIW,, I paid cash for my morning coffee.
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03-08-2012, 10:03 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: New England
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 480sparky
They don't need my password to look at it, either. But that's Fox News for you.
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No, but depending on your setting you have to 'friend' them for them to see any posts or pictures.
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03-08-2012, 10:29 AM
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Chief Electron Relocator
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Cornpatch USA
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Simple solution:
Have two FB pages. Problem solved.
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03-08-2012, 10:38 AM
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I'm pretty sure my boss doesn't know what the Internet is. I should be okay.
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03-08-2012, 10:53 AM
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Senior Member
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Location: Boston
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You want access to my private life and can't trust me to run it in a respectable way I suppose we're both going to have issues. You're not going to hire me unless I give it to you and I'm not going to work for you if you require me to give it to you.
That being said I voluntarily add people I work with.
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03-08-2012, 10:57 AM
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Chief Electron Relocator
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Part of the problem is too many sheeple will not see what is wrong with this. They're hopelessly addicted to social sites to begin with, so they merrily comply. Enough people voluntarily surrender their rights, and before you know it, that right no longer exists.
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03-08-2012, 11:43 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 480sparky
Part of the problem is too many sheeple will not see what is wrong with this. They're hopelessly addicted to social sites to begin with, so they merrily comply. Enough people voluntarily surrender their rights, and before you know it, that right no longer exists.
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That is right, we should all live our lives per your personal ideas of what is right and what is wrong.
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03-08-2012, 12:02 PM
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Electrical Simpleton
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 480sparky
They're hopelessly addicted to social sites to begin with....
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Like this one?
Pete
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03-08-2012, 12:04 PM
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Chief Electron Relocator
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Quote:
Originally Posted by BBQ
That is right, we should all live our lives per your personal ideas of what is right and what is wrong.
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You obviously missed the fact that no one is bound by law to surrender their right to refuse "Friending" the potential employer.
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03-08-2012, 12:22 PM
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Senior Member
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I don't have a Facebook page. I see all my friends in real life, face to face. So now what do they do? I do not agree with this.
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