Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
Mar 20th 2012, 7:32 pm
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Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
Mar 20th 2012, 7:40 pm
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
Nope. End of.
What happened to any distinction between you work life and your private life? Cell phones and crackberries are intrusion enough and erode the division between life and work more than enough if you ask me.
What happened to any distinction between you work life and your private life? Cell phones and crackberries are intrusion enough and erode the division between life and work more than enough if you ask me.
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Mar 20th 2012, 8:12 pm
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
I agree.
Mar 20th 2012, 8:39 pm
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
There is also the argument that if you are taking a sickie when you shouldn't and you are silly enough to post about it, you deserve to get caught. In the olden days this required effort and expense on the part of employers. Careless employees make such investigations much easier these days.
So, with the distinction between work and private life argument, what happens when your child is sick and you need time off work to stay home and look after them. On the basis of your position it appears that the employer shouldn't care and should disallow any such indulgences. Such a black and white distintion is not possible. A good employer will give and take as will a good employee.
The login question was silly but I believe that employers are justified in carrying out whatever background checks they believe are appropriate before hiring someone, as long as such checks are legal. Employers may use such actions as a way of weeding out bullshitters.
Mar 20th 2012, 8:57 pm
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
Then don't post on such sites while at work.
There is also the argument that if you are taking a sickie when you shouldn't and you are silly enough to post about it, you deserve to get caught. In the olden days this required effort and expense on the part of employers. Careless employees make such investigations much easier these days.
So, with the distinction between work and private life argument, what happens when your child is sick and you need time off work to stay home and look after them. On the basis of your position it appears that the employer shouldn't care and should disallow any such indulgences. Such a black and white distintion is not possible. A good employer will give and take as will a good employee.
The login question was silly but I believe that employers are justified in carrying out whatever background checks they believe are appropriate before hiring someone, as long as such checks are legal. Employers may use such actions as a way of weeding out bullshitters.
There is also the argument that if you are taking a sickie when you shouldn't and you are silly enough to post about it, you deserve to get caught. In the olden days this required effort and expense on the part of employers. Careless employees make such investigations much easier these days.
So, with the distinction between work and private life argument, what happens when your child is sick and you need time off work to stay home and look after them. On the basis of your position it appears that the employer shouldn't care and should disallow any such indulgences. Such a black and white distintion is not possible. A good employer will give and take as will a good employee.
The login question was silly but I believe that employers are justified in carrying out whatever background checks they believe are appropriate before hiring someone, as long as such checks are legal. Employers may use such actions as a way of weeding out bullshitters.
Hell, why not demand that you can see their bank balance information, to determine that they are not embezzling, or to see how badly they need the job. Its an unjustified intrusion, end of story.
Kids get sick, people take time off, that's life, the employer can approve or not, but its going to happen anyway, so any employer, good or bad, is going to have to deal with it one way or another anyway. I dont see what that has to do with wanting access to peoples facebook pages.
AS for work life balance its interesting that VW recently introduced a system that limits emails on employee crackberries etc to working only within well defined office hours. More employeers should follow that lead IMO, its just a job. Of course the alternative is also out there, the "off" button. I believe these devices have one somewhere, but not many people seem to know about it...
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Mar 20th 2012, 8:58 pm
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Mar 20th 2012, 9:06 pm
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
Then don't post on such sites while at work.
There is also the argument that if you are taking a sickie when you shouldn't and you are silly enough to post about it, you deserve to get caught. In the olden days this required effort and expense on the part of employers. Careless employees make such investigations much easier these days.
So, with the distinction between work and private life argument, what happens when your child is sick and you need time off work to stay home and look after them. On the basis of your position it appears that the employer shouldn't care and should disallow any such indulgences. Such a black and white distintion is not possible. A good employer will give and take as will a good employee.
The login question was silly but I believe that employers are justified in carrying out whatever background checks they believe are appropriate before hiring someone, as long as such checks are legal. Employers may use such actions as a way of weeding out bullshitters.
There is also the argument that if you are taking a sickie when you shouldn't and you are silly enough to post about it, you deserve to get caught. In the olden days this required effort and expense on the part of employers. Careless employees make such investigations much easier these days.
So, with the distinction between work and private life argument, what happens when your child is sick and you need time off work to stay home and look after them. On the basis of your position it appears that the employer shouldn't care and should disallow any such indulgences. Such a black and white distintion is not possible. A good employer will give and take as will a good employee.
The login question was silly but I believe that employers are justified in carrying out whatever background checks they believe are appropriate before hiring someone, as long as such checks are legal. Employers may use such actions as a way of weeding out bullshitters.
Or is it none of their f*****g business ?
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Mar 20th 2012, 10:44 pm
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
It's not appropriate to ask for someone else's password but it would be a poor interviewer who hadn't googled, facebooked and linkedined the prospective employee. One should check any business contact before meeting them; what's interesting is what they choose to put in the public domain, if it's all proactive reaching out and interfacing then they're off to a weak start.
Mar 20th 2012, 10:55 pm
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Having said that twitter makes FB look positively intelligent
Mar 20th 2012, 10:55 pm
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
Are we sure that some employers do not ask for interviewees to provide their Facebook password and then to reject those that do so? It seems to display very poor judgment to give a password to another party. If ever asked, I would not do so, but I think I would frame my refusal in a manner that would make it clear that it would be displaying poor judgment if I did so.
Mar 21st 2012, 12:13 am
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
Would you furnish said employer with photographs when requested of what you get up to with Mrs AC in the bedroom ? Pony riding, S & M, Mr AC dressed as an Edwardian lady ? They don't want sexual deviants, in their opinion, working for their company.
Or is it none of their f*****g business ?
Or is it none of their f*****g business ?
They are sites the public has access to.
It would appear you didn't want a debate. As usual, I am playing devil's advocate. No need to swear of get all flustered.
Mar 21st 2012, 12:17 am
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Mar 21st 2012, 12:30 am
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
I suppose these are the same employers who are often critisised for not returning the calls and emails of their applicants. Now we know why, they are all too busy arsing about on facebook.
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Mar 21st 2012, 12:54 am
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
I don't publish such things. The ones I do publish I would happily show. Where are you on previous employer's references? It is just not another way of asking what you do in your spare time. Would you refuse to answer such a question at interview?
They are sites the public has access to.
It would appear you didn't want a debate. As usual, I am playing devil's advocate. No need to swear of get all flustered.
They are sites the public has access to.
It would appear you didn't want a debate. As usual, I am playing devil's advocate. No need to swear of get all flustered.
Mar 21st 2012, 1:00 am
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Re: Should your new employer have access to your Social Networking ?
And I am sure some people use their private accounts for discussing very private matters like sexuality and health matters.