Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

I would tell them to kiss my fucka ass!!!!! (If i was stupid enough to have a FB account that is!)

www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/news...bseekersgettingaskedforfacebookpasswords.html

 

Someone brought this to my attention a week or two ago. What can possibly be relevant to a job application on a social networking site? I hate the way the world is going. I hate even more the way people are allowing these fucking things to happen!

 

This won't be going on much longer. You'll be surprised what employers know about job applicants now a days before they're hired. Thanks largely to easly available computer programs. They know a little of your background, arrest record if any, credit score if any, and the prescription meds you take, if you had a preemployment drug test, etc, etc.

All this before having verification of schooling faxed to them, which normally takes a few days. And this has become something of a minimum. It gets about 10 times worse if the new job requires any type of security clearance.

A Facebook account is a mirror to the soul. And it helps paint a personality profile of the user, that potential employers are apparently very interested in. And you can't just say: I don't have a Facebook account. Because they've already checked, and that's why they're requesting your password in the first place.

 

Something very occult about that...you know, like someone gets hold of a lock of your hair and can then exert power over you.

The obvious thing is [a] not to have accounts on the likes of Facebook, and as far as possible do not allow any details of your "real life" identity online.

Remember: just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you



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In your case they would simply ask for your Hip Forums account..

 

A lock of hair is used in DNA and certain drug tests , so we're already there.

 

Damn, such a huge violation of privacy in my book! There's a reason why he kept his account private in the place so only people he wanted to could view it. Why should she have the code? I would have walked straight out of that interview even though my FB account shows absolutely nothing. It's a shame the hoops we have to jump through to become employed these days. Then when you finally get hired your whole private life has been exposed by then. Damn can't we have a lick of privacy anymore at all these days? SMH.

 

Not to mention the fact that once you get hired you can be fired for viewing Facebook. Several dozen employees of a local county government near me found that out the hard way. As did some employees of the state highway commission.

 

Is that facebooks fault or their own? Also, you are to some extend responsible for your own privacy of course. If you value it a lot and aware of how facebooks operates I don't see why you put certain info on there.
It seems peeps want to be on this dubious site that files and shares your private info and search history even if you're profile is set on private and still think it should conform to their privacy rules. Well perhaps it should, but since you know it does not why stay on there. Or why put risky info on there. Oh yeah because everyone does and you can and should be able to... Well, you should be able to function without a site that fucks up your privacy rights too.

 

They have been so brainwashed and dumbed down,THEY DONT CARE!!

 

Before starting your job search, suspend your Facebook account. Don't delete it. Tell the interviewers (honestly) that you don't have an active Facebook account. A few weeks after you start your new job, you can re-activate the account, and everything will be the same as you left it.

That's kind of a dirty, cynical move, but those companies are playing dirty too. They don't deserve better treatment.

 

fuck these assholes

I don't know what to hate worse, that they ask for FB information, or that they assume that you have a FB account in the first place

 

I have a Facebook account, but I don't post anything controversial on it. It's an easy way to send family updates to relatives and friends without making a dozen phone calls or sending mass e-mails.

I don't like the idea of asking for Facebook passwords. As far as I know, my employer doesn't do this. Also understand that employers want to hire people who reflect the company's image. Maybe that's old school, but it's reality, and until that culture changes it's what we have to deal with.

In my late teens/early 20's I wasn't a role model for professional behavior by any extent. Fortunately social sites didn't exist yet. My advice is to keep embarrassing pictures/comments off the internet and only share them with trusted friends. While I have some risque photos on my HF profile page, you won't find any that show my face for the reasons I've stated. Please don't take my comments as endorsing employer practices; that's why I highlighted the line above, but don't fool yourself either, especially if you're looking for a higher paying professional position.

 

I promise you this has been going on long before this. They are only now starting to ask. A few years ago they simply looked before they called for an interview, if it all checked out, you got a call, if not you didn't.

But for someone who understands computers, face book "security" settings are easily bypassed. And companies do employ these so called "white hat" hackers, who do just that for them. Hack whatever they ask. It has gone on since facebook got big and they realized what they could learn about a person. Oh and your local PD also employs the white hats, so beware

 

https://www.************/notes/face...ur-passwords-and-your-privacy/326598317390057

 

To take it a step further, is there any reason why you couldn't set up a second account especially for this kind of eventuality ? Extoling all the virtues that would make you a model employee ? [I've never had anything to do with FB, so I dont really know how it works].

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I use a fake name on facebook, I wouldn't EVER give it out to a job. I don't see why it is important, the work place is about working. Facebook is about communicating with your friends, and having fun.

 

I'm pretty infamous for my stance on FB. But this is some serious Mark-of-the-beast-shit. Pretty soon they'll be wanting to mandate facebook or facebook will start marketing itself to businesses.

This is wrong, but I guess it does show the fundamental side of people, you can't demand info from people but you can let them give it up. They feel like they're important and connected with facebook. It's an ego-trip so they'll give up free info like they've been tilting back jagerbombs.

-BlBks

 

Its like the section they put on application forms for you to list your hobbies... so long as you do the job you're being paid for, whose business is it what you do out of working hours ?

I usually just put a line through it... though more than once tempted to put "member of Church of Satan", "leather fetishist", etc.

I guess there's always the chance, however remote, that the person dishing out the jobs might be a leather-loving Satanist, so it might be worth a go...



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the top floor of record label companies is where they do the ritual lol