Potential Employers Doing a Job on You, Thanks to Facebook
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Now something else to worry about for those try to get jobs: your past posts on Facebook. "Facebook Activities Haunting Job Seekers," reports Baselinemag.com, which points out that "social networking poses a serious threat to job seekers who have posted inappropriate information about themselves."
Bosses are finding it so easy to check up on applicants' Facebooking info. Or, to put it another way, "tech geeks need to keep future interviewers in mind before bragging about their beer pong champion status or posting crazy pictures."
The real danger may be that a prospective boss would see that you're so boring and/or banal that he/she wouldn't want you around. So think twice about telling everyone that you're thinking of fixing some oatmeal or that you like puppies.
But if you've already made a fool of yourself on Facebook, maybe you can claim at your next job interview that someone stole your identity and posted all that bullshit.
Seriously, though, identity theft is supposedly reaching "epidemic" proportions, and practically all of it is because you're always on your damn computer, typing that banal bullshit into Facebook and Twitter, so hackers have you in their sights almost constantly.
6 comment(s)
That would be a neat trick, considering I don't have a Facebook page.
But even if I did, who wants to work for the kind of asshole who goes snooping around on the web looking for dirt on you anyway? Life's too short to waste any of it in the company of fuckheads. If I wanted to do that, I'd join the military. Or the police.
Posted On: Friday, Sep. 11 2009 @ 7:54PM"Life's too short to waste any of it in the company of fuckheads. If I wanted to do that, I'd join the military. Or the police."
Posted On: Saturday, Sep. 12 2009 @ 6:16AMFuckheads. Nice. Remember that next time you need one these groups to help you or save your ass you fat pussy
Realist.. i agree with you 150%
Fuck companies like that. For you fuckheads out there.. go fuck yourselves with your nosy bullshit!!!
Life > Fuckheads at work who have nothing to do but snoop and judge others for being human.
Posted On: Saturday, Sep. 12 2009 @ 5:16PM@Dennis:
It's not a cop's job to "save your ass" or even help people. The police are paid to arrive at the scene of a crime after the fact, collect evidence, take statements and then find and apprehend the perp. Additionally, detectives are tasked with building cases and presenting evidence in court.
I know a number of guys on the force who are really cool and wonderful human beings, but for the most part, military and police personnel are fuckheads. Why else would they be attracted to a career where you wear a uniform, exert authority and are required to have an unfortunate haircut?
For the general public to recognize this and make light of it is probably comforting to those few nice guys out there who work in those environments and have to deal with fuckheads all day long for little pay.
You fat pussy.
Posted On: Sunday, Sep. 13 2009 @ 11:41AM... but it should be the other way around.
employers should open themselves up to the same level of scrutiny they exact upon their employees. do you really want to work for a company where the cfo is embezzling, the ceo is two steps away from a moral turpitude charge, and the whole place is going to go belly up in a couple weeks? probably not, but there's usually no way for you to find out that info.
you fat pussy.
Posted On: Monday, Sep. 14 2009 @ 3:35AM"Why else would they be attracted to a career where you wear a uniform, exert authority and are required to have an unfortunate haircut?"
Gee Anonymous, I think some of their haircuts are nice.
Posted On: Monday, Sep. 14 2009 @ 7:50AM