This could be in YOUR future as you enter the "real world".
posted by Mr. Carlisle at 5:21 PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
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- Name: Mr. Carlisle
- Location: Portland, Oregon, United States
I'm a native South Carolinian and I attained my undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of South Carolina. I taught fourth grade for two years in the Mississippi Delta and two years at an alternative high school in Western North Carolina. I have been at Tigard High School since the fall of 2003, where I teach U.S. History and Psychology.
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12 Comments:
I think this is ridiculous. I don't think employers should be able to violate this sort of privacy. They should just rely on the interview itself. The person is right in front of them, no need to judge their personal life.
5:35 PM
This is ridiculous, i dont think they have any business to do that. Wouldnt that violate the right to privacy??
Oh Mr. Carlisle: since you posted that old people video, i thought you might enjoy this as well,
http://www.nbc.com/betty-whites-off-their-rockers/video/episode-101/1379289/
6:11 PM
I was just watching this on the news on tv! It's totally insane!! I heard some states might
try to make it illegal. I wonder what employers would really do that? It seems so unnecessary.
6:28 PM
Do employers even have the right to do that? It's a complete invasion of privacy. Next they are going to start asking to look through people's phones.
6:52 PM
This is outlandish... honestly employers?? It just feels unnecessary... like get to know me as a person, not my profile. Plus this could lead into lawsuits about what people find on others profiles and the legitimacy of reasons for firing/ not hiring an individual.
7:13 PM
Second time I have heard about this! First time was sourcefed...
7:17 PM
I think this is going too far. I have nothing to hide on my facebook wall but I still don't want some employer snooping around in my stuff. Everyone should join not google+.
9:42 PM
That's fine, I'll give them my Bank account PIN too so they can track what I buy... To make sure I'm not purchasing any drugs from sketchy sources or anything. OH, they can come and ransack my house periodically too. That's totally fine. Might as well just give them my phone so they can read all my texts and look at all my pictures.... I mean, I can see what they are trying to prevent, but they are taking the extremist route and I feel there's going to be some retaliation in the workforce soon if the government/businesses continue to slowly chip away at our freedoms.
9:51 PM
I don't know, guys. I don't like it, that's for sure, but is it really all that unreasonable? You know those personalized ads that you get on your facebook sidebar? That's people who you don't even know getting your information off your facebook to try and make money off of you. This situation is an employer, hopefully a trustworthy guy or gal that you're acquainted with, just wanting to make sure you're not a drug dealer. If they screw up your facebook life, just sue them for billions of dollars or something.
Don't draw conclusions by saying that next they'll be tapping your phones or breaking in to your house. Internet privacy is an illusion already, and this is just taking it an unpleasent little baby step further. Big Brother is watching you.
10:33 PM
Honstly I would not give my password away, but I would give an amazing explanation why I would not give it away, maybe that way I can get some communication points. But yea I think it is rediculous.
11:31 PM
Brian Josephson
It seems easy to counter. Just make two facebooks. One that you would use for your personal life and another fake one that you keep up just to trick the employers with.
You can also say you don't have a facebook. But then they will think your weird and probably not hire you.
12:13 AM
Yup way too private, as I said earlier in the year. What a person does privately is different from meeting the job requirements.
3:40 PM
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