Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

If I ever had anybody ask me for information like that, they would get an ear full, and then some. Only when we take a stand and refuse to take this shit any more will people start taking us seriously.

If a prospective employer ever asked me for my FB (or any other) password, I would tell them bluntly that it was none of their f*ing business, and that furthermore, I would never consider working for anybody who would openly violate someone's privacy for any reason. Then I would walk out. Period. End of discussion.

I've had it with anal f*ckheads. I don't take crap off anybody any more. I used to think that I shouldn't do or say certain things that would cause anybody to think less of me; now I don't care. A few years ago, I worked for a title company with practically the worst management you could imagine. One day, I was in the manager's office, and he kept asking me a question (I don't remember what it was now), and twice I answered it. The third time, I finally pointed out--very bluntly--that I had already answered it twice, and did he think that he would get a different answer by asking me a third time? I'm sure neither he nor the assistant manager expected a response like that, especially from easy-going, eager-to-please little ole me, because after that, they treated me with more respect; apparently, all it took was the nerve to make it obvious they were pushing their luck. (Later, I gave them only the minimum two weeks' notice, via email, and I thought it was hilarious that the day I sent it was another employee's last day, and the same the following Friday!)

My grandfather used to say that some people were put on this planet to be educated, and that he was just the one to do it. I believe he was talking about these assholes who push you just to see how far they can go, and when they find out you've had enough and you take a stand, they back down.

United we stand, my friends

 

It's a matter of ethics...so why work for someone who hasn't any?

 

Personally, I always recommend to people that they use their given names online only for professional purposes, use pseudonyms everywhere else, use unique pseudonyms for each location, and never associate one pseudonym with another ("I'm known as this over there"). Almost no one listens.

I know a youngster who's finding out the hard way that her Facebook page is keeping her from getting a good start in the career she went to college for. She wants to be in what's known as "a position of trust" but has been very open about her party lifestyle... Oops.

I don't agree with it, but I find going hungry to be even more disagreeable.

 

Dont ever let them know this!!!!! (They will change it to your REAL INFO as soon as they get it! (Either that or they will delete your account (WHICH ISNT A BAD THING TRUST ME!! (FB is no good)))

 

They probably ask to infringe on your privicy not to deleate anything but to collect information about you that they can't legally ask at an interview. By looking at your status updates etc. they could find out your marital status, policitcal activities, sexual oriantion, if your have kids or anything else you post about. However, if your do post that much information on FB it does tell the prospective employers one relevent peice of information that they have they right to know, your level of intelligence. Lol

But seriously that is a gross infringement on privicy. It is sad tosee how much of our rights are being eroaded away.

Soon employers will starting requiring employees to have a facebook account.

 

maybe they are checking for posts during work hours at the last job...i dont wanna hire someone that is online checking their stupid status every minute

 

Checking your log in times, number daily number of posts, amount of time spent on Facebook is all part of the reasoning potential employers use to judge a persons charter. No question about that.

But its not just Facebook that's been singled out for this abuse, its all the social network sites.

Bottom line: If you use these sites you need to be extra careful.

 

To make it look convincing, you would have to get some of your friends to go along with it and make some lame, boring posts on your wall. I think that would be hard to manage. And if Facebook catches you doing that, they will delete one of your accounts. Their CEO has said that creating multiple accounts "shows a lack of personal integrity". Like he would know anything about that.

Things are already moving in this direction, and it came up in another thread:

http://www.hipforums.com/newforums/showthread.php?p=7179200#post7179200

I'm still using e-mail to exchange updates and pics with old friends, like I have done for years. It still works, and it's invisible to the business world.

If I did use Facebook and some interviewer demanded my password, I would ask him why he was asking me to do something unethical; violating Facebook's TOS, and stabbing my friends in the back who have trusted me with personal information in private messages. If I'm that kind of a person, then if he hires me I'll probably be an unethical employee. If that's the kind of people they want, that's what they deserve.

 

I have a Facebook account. I talk about sex and drugs and Marxism and whatever I want. My page is completely open to the public, with no blocks, under my real name, with a photo. I also am an administrator of my employer's [retail shop in a very small, very conservative town] Facebook page. I don't care; I am not afraid.

 

Be afraid ,be very afraid !

 

You dont know my friends...I think they could manage lame and boring without breaking sweat

Ah, I see. On the whole, nothing I've ever heard about FB has ever made me think I should start an account.



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Yeah, 'cause they never would have guessed that my facebook name isn't real(which is really obvious)...or that maybe my guinea pigs don't really have their own accounts or... maybe I'm not really friends with Peter Griffin and Sherlock Holmes (both people on my friends list, whom are neither Peter Griffin or Mr.Holmes)

Don't get my wrong. I understand the fears people have about FB but this seems like fear mongering with nothing presented to back-up.

 

Ah man!!

 

wow we need to stand together and tell them too fuck off this is going way to far whats next. its a night mare and were right in the middle of it this is b.s. next they will want criminal bake ground checks to own a car.

 

Facebook Tells Never To Give Your Login Details To Employers

 

I would treat it as a test on my reaction quickness.

 

I don't have a Facebook account. How long until employers ask for my AboveTopSecret password?

 

Ha ha that is nuts. I would have asked the interviewer for theirs too... or their online banking username and password lol

 

How would I handle it? Hmmm.

Prospective boss: "Do you have a facebook account?"
Me: -silence-
Prospective boss: "You do have one, right?"
Me: -silence-
Prospective boss: "Are you or are you not going to answer my questions?"
Me: "You have the right to ask nearly any question you want. And I'll only answer questions that you have the right to know the answer to."

They cannot legally punish you for refusing to give them information that is unrelated to your prospective employment. They can, however, lie out their ass about why they won't hire you. So just think, would you really want to work for them if they are that intrusive into your personal life? And would you want to trust them with any information about yourself when they show such dishonesty? I wouldn't. Now it;'s your FaceBook account. Next is what? Asking you how you fuck your wife?

 

they'll stop doing it once they realise how severely it compromises their hiring and firing abilities: http://raganwald.posterous.com/i-hereby-resign read that, really interesting..