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Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« on: April 03, 2012, 02:20:42 PM »
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If an employer asks for your Facebook login info

ask for theirs in return. That includes the owner, ceo, president and other chief officers of the company, including the interviewer asking you, if it's a new job you're applying for.

If they say "no", ask "Why not?" If they are dumb enough to reply "Because it's my personal information", which they'll have to be pretty dumb to say, just quip back "Oh, so now you know how I feel." That's an old Seinfeld joke you may recognize.


If you want to be more serious, tell them you find it a bit hypocritical of the management of a company to demand login information to the facebook accounts of others while not providing the same access to the people they are demanding it from. After all, the kind of people I am working for is just as important as the kind of people who are working for you and a job interview is a two way street.

Don't be afraid to remind them of that. They've seem to have forgotten.

Heard later at the bar near the office: "And then the ****ing idiot asked me for MY login information. Hey, cockwad, I HAVE a job. So I said I thought we were finished here. Which we were, because we don't hire people who smell like weed and look like a JC Penney catalog from 1982. Saved us the expense and them the humiliation of a drug test, anyway. The asshole actually asked me when and where they should do the drug test. I wanted to scream, 'dude, you smell like a monkey's nutsack marinated in bongwater...we did the drug screen when you walked in the door! What a DICK!"

Mineral Man seems to be the only one not totally idiotic:

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7. You might just as well simply walk out of the interview.

You aren't getting that job. It's very wrong for companies to do this, but some will try. Eventually, they won't be allowed to ask for such information, but until that happens applicants aren't going to get those jobs if they aren't willing to comply.

Since most hiring is done by HR departments or HR outsourcers these days, the owners or managers of these companies don't see the applicants that are screened out with crap like this. They won't even know that they're losing potentially excellent employees. So, telling the HR person this stuff will do approximately nothing to change the situation. HR doesn't care, to be quite frank, and there are plenty of people who will just let them have the info.

This will require laws prohibiting such invasions of privacy.
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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2012, 02:41:00 PM »
We don't call them DUmbasses for nothing.
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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2012, 02:45:17 PM »
I don't understand something about this. Why do they need to get your password in order to see your profile/posts on FB? Can't they just ask you  for your user name and then send a "friend" request? The only reason I would NOT want to give them my password is messages. Not public posts or pictures...but private messages. I seems to me that's the only thing they would need your password for. Am I missing something?
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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2012, 03:48:43 PM »
Quote from: dixierose on April 03, 2012, 02:45:17 PM
I don't understand something about this. Why do they need to get your password in order to see your profile/posts on FB? Can't they just ask you  for your user name and then send a "friend" request? The only reason I would NOT want to give them my password is messages. Not public posts or pictures...but private messages. I seems to me that's the only thing they would need your password for. Am I missing something?

Yep your missing that it's dummieland,they probably haven't been to a job interview in yrs.
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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2012, 04:01:22 PM »
Uh, has anyone here ever been asked for this kind of personal info?

I've never been asked if I have a facebook account!

I know I never have! but then again, I have an FBI clearance, heh!
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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #5 on: April 03, 2012, 04:11:59 PM »
It can be argued that what is on the internet does not have the strongest of privacy protections.
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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #6 on: April 03, 2012, 04:35:15 PM »
Quote from: obumazombie on April 03, 2012, 04:11:59 PM
It can be argued that what is on the internet does not have the strongest of privacy protections.

     It can also be argued that if you're searching for a job, you shouldn't make sure the whole world can see **** BUSH on your Facebook.
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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #7 on: April 03, 2012, 04:40:59 PM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on April 03, 2012, 04:35:15 PM
It can also be argued that if you're searching for a job, you shouldn't make sure the whole world can see **** BUSH on your Facebook.

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Re: Exhibit A in the case of Dummies Without Jobs
« Reply #8 on: April 03, 2012, 06:28:59 PM »
Well DUmmies, I guess you'll have to at least temporarily delete your FB, Twitter, Second Life, Furry Nation, and whatever else freakazoid website memberships you have when you start looking for a job.

I don't believe I'll have that problem, because I don't plan on going anywhere for quite some time.
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