OT - Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

[Stormin Mormon]

What? You didn't answer the confirm call, on line that was broken?

You know, that should have been a Darwin award, but it's probably illegal to kill idiot linemen.

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Normally I'd think you were snarking, but I can't tell. Because Verizon (to be fair, I only have experience with the land line portion of the company, I was too scared to ever consider using them for cell service after receiving such nonexistent "service" consistently over a period of years on various land lines to the point where I just finally went cell-only) does have, hands down, the worst reliability and customer service of any company I've ever dealt with. I'm amazed that they are still in business, frankly. It's that bad. The last place I had a land line, it consistently didn't work, and the last straw was when their service guy didn't show up - because I didn't answer my land line (which didn't work) to confirm the appointment. I couldn't make this shit up.

nate

[Stormin Mormon]

On a similar note. My bank, and also the metals scrap recycling yard have both insisted on doing a scan of my drivers license, for ID purposes. At the bank, it's convenience, so the teller can see it's me from the photo. At the scrap yard, they say it's a new state law, helping track stolen metals.

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[Harry K]

Sounds likevalid requests to me. If you don't like either one, don't go there. As for face book passwords? NO! But then mine was forced on me by mhy niece, I don't even know what my password is and I have never looked at it. Get all kinds of people I don't know sending me mesasges - they get deleted without reading.

Face-book - passtime for very stupid people.

Harry K

[bud--]

That sounds good to me. But I suspect about everyone younger than about

30 has a facebook account. IMHO employers should not have access to it. Sounds like there are legal problems for employers accessing facebook accounts (don't remember what a couple articles said). Employers may farm out looking at accounts to another company.

I also read recently that for some 'professional' jobs, applicants may be evaluated on qualities like 'leadership' online at sites like linked-in. I'm not fond of this either.

[Percival P. Cassidy]

I didn't read any of the comments on the page where it was posted, but our son told us that some of the comments suggested that if the applicant denied having a Facebook page, the interviewer would assume that s/he was lying or that s/he was antisocial. Our niece, who is in HR, said that the interviewer's behavior was outrageous.

Perce

[Stormin Mormon]

This one might be suited.

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Nope, I think they're very nice vehicles but not suitable for me because there is no place to carry a 24' extension ladder on top. ^_^

TDD

[krw]

"Charles, set the ladder over there."

[krw]

Certainly it depends on the job. McD's burger flipper is different than one where the level of trust is greater than showing up.

Agreed. Illegal drugs are a good place to draw the line in most cases. The company is on pretty solid ground, there. It does depend on the job and the level of trust required, though. Also, higher salaried (trust) jobs could easily have higher standards.

Financial situations are another sore subject here, but I think it's absolutely relevant for many positions, particularly high-level or professional careers.

I didn't mean *you*. ;-)

[krw]

Not sure that's a winner. What are you still doing in possession of their property?

[The Daring Dufas]

That truck looks Red Chinese for some reason. o_O

TDD

[tangerine3]

That's exactly the kind of stuff I was seeing on FB. People showing photos of their dinner plate, of a car parked in front of their house, of themselves mowing the lawn, picture of a book they got at the library, etc. and stories like this:

"I went to Walmart today, located at 6033 Elm St. in Boobla AZ. I pulled into the parking lot at 2:14pm, parked in space 27 aisle 4. I arrived inside the store at 2:17 pm and bought a dozen Farm Fresh brand eggs, an

18oz loaf of low fat Wonder white bread, a box of 20 Trojan Condoms, a 4 pack of Scott toilet paper, and a 12oz jar of Smuckers Raspberry jam. I checked out at exactly 2:48.49pm at checkout counter #7. The checkout clerk was named Debra Smith. The cost of my purchase was $11.27 plus $0.58 tax. The total cost was $11.85, which I paid with my Mastercard, card number 6107-5041-3288-9916 exp date 07-2015. I arrived at my car at 2:53:12pm and pulled onto the street at 2:55:01pm. The traffic was heavy, weather partly cloudy 64 deg F, and I had to stop at the red light in Main St. at 3:01:54pm. The light turned green at 3:02:18pm in a 30mph speed zone, but due to heavy traffic I was only traveling between 15 to 23mph. etc........... etc...........

Everyone wants to know shit like this, and I have the whole rest of my life to stare at a screen reading this kind of crap!!!! Thank you Facebook (which I prefer to call FaceFuck).

[N8N]

For the record, I am antisocial but still have a Facebook account. And there's nothing wrong with being antisocial.

nate

[krw]

One of these days, harry, you're going to make sense, if even my accident.