If You Want A Job, You May Have To Turn Over Your Facebook Password

[WestCoastWilson]

If You Want A Job, You May Have To Turn Over Your Facebook Password

http://www.businessinsider.com/empoy...assword-2012-3

Wilson

[TheFallenAsexual]

If you seek to work for asshole employers...

[kineticpsi]

The ACLU is already working on privacy legislation to make this illegal. If it goes through then employers can't even request it and leave it up to the potential employee. The argument is that they might as well give potential employers house keys or let them install cameras in their homes. I don't see this hanging on for long.

[MoufOfKhaos]

I don't need a new job that bad.

[Beachguyj]

I don't use Facebook but I would rather delete it than give my password up if I had a FB account.

[WestCoastWilson]

The ACLU is already working on privacy legislation to make this illegal. If it goes through then employers can't even request it and leave it up to the potential employee. The argument is that they might as well give potential employers house keys or let them install cameras in their homes. I don't see this hanging on for long.

Well said, Kineticpsi!

Wilson

[Karen_Walker]

I don't need a new job that bad.

I sure would love to give you a job.

[thatgirl]

I don't have a Facebook but this sounds really OTT and creepy.

[Karen_Walker]

I don't have a Facebook but this sounds really OTT and creepy.

On one hand, yes, there is so obviously a million ways this could be abused... BUT i see where this is coming from, companies wanna avoid hiring potheads who might damage their reputation with pics of them doing naked keg stands at parties with minors holding blunts and bongs. In essense, if this is implemented, outside of the abuse, it would only be detrimental to people who overshare, which is never a good idea in the first place. When a company puts you on their payroll you become a representative of sorts, especially in america's current litigation-happy culture.

[diamondstar]

That's invasion of privacy. If I can't get personal information on my employer my employer better not expect the same from me. However, I don't even have a FB account anyways, but that shit is still shady.

[teadrinker]

^ I agree: it's a gross invasion of privacy. The employers must be banking on a tight job market and desperate job seekers. Anyway, it's appalling.

-T.

[Pianist]

I'd ask if it was mandatory information. If so, I'd laugh in his/her face, shake his/her hand, thank them for their time, and tell them the interview was over and walk out.

[jackoroe]

They can hold their hand on their ass and wait. They won't be getting any passwords from me.

[ravenstar]

If that becomes standard practice, how soon before people have second worker friendly Facebook pages that are generic and show nothing about your life.

It's never even crossed my mind to go looking for potential employee's facebook or other social media sites .

[pat grimshaw]

...companies wanna avoid hiring potheads who might damage their reputation.... When a company puts you on their payroll you become a representative of sorts....

QFT.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[MikeyLove]

If they want my password.......over my dead body!

[Carmine]

Fuck that noise.

[WagWag]

They can hold their hand on their ass and wait. They won't be getting any passwords from me.

This. I don't have a Facebook, but I won't be handing out passwords and usernames of personal accounts to anyone.

You want me to bring in my contact lists and photo albums and home movies while I'm at it?

[BrimstoneAndTreacle]

One thing that bothers me about this beyond just the heinous invasion of personal privacy is the fact that it's not just my own private information that is accessible through Facebook. My friends have sent me messages in which they've shared personal details that they told me in confidence. Some of them also have profiles accessible only to friends, and hidden from the general public. If I were to hand over my password, I would be betraying their trust.

[evanrick]

your not allowed to share your password with anyone anyways its against fb policy.

[Karen_Walker]

your not allowed to share your password with anyone anyways its against fb policy.

zzzzzzing!

[Thynight]

One thing that bothers me about this beyond just the heinous invasion of personal privacy is the fact that it's not just my own private information that is accessible through Facebook. My friends have sent me messages in which they've shared personal details that they told me in confidence. Some of them also have profiles accessible only to friends, and hidden from the general public. If I were to hand over my password, I would be betraying their trust.

That is a great point.

[Hatter]

So what I'm wondering is what happens in these type of job interviews if you're someone like myself who doesn't have a facebook/twitter account...

[Carmine]

So what I'm wondering is what happens in these type of job interviews if you're someone like myself who doesn't have a facebook/twitter account...

Would you want to work for a company that demands such information in the first place?

[Karen_Walker]

So what I'm wondering is what happens in these type of job interviews if you're someone like myself who doesn't have a facebook/twitter account...

1 tell them "I dont have a twitter bitch!"

Then

2 jump up on their desk and say "I'm too awesome for twitter you filthy rotten skank!"

Then

3 start playing a mean ass air guitar riff and thrash your head about, kick their papers off the desk and show them what a rock star you are

If they havent called security by now then

4 sit on his lap and say "You wanna tame me daddy?"

Then

5 slap him and say "Too bad bitch I cannot be contained! So do i have the job?"

[Thynight]

1 tell them "I dont have a twitter bitch!"

Then

2 jump up on their desk and say "I'm too awesome for twitter you filthy rotten skank!"

Then

3 start playing a mean ass air guitar riff and thrash your head about, kick their papers off the desk and show them what a rock star you are

If they havent called security by now then

4 sit on his lap and say "You wanna tame me daddy?"

Then

5 slap him and say "Too bad bitch I cannot be contained! So do i have the job?"

I am disappointed in you. I thought you would put their face between your breasts.




B(.)(.)bies

[JohannBessler]

If that becomes standard practice, how soon before people have second worker friendly Facebook pages that are generic and show nothing about your life.

I had already done that at one point. In fact, I had six accounts.

If you know a little bit about computers, it's not too hard to fool Facebook. (If you're sloppy they'll catch you; I know this because it happened to me.)

At any rate, to answer the OP:

I no longer have any Facebook accounts, so I would be able to give them nothing.

[MMMonsterBoy]

This is ridiculous to me. Why not stick to the standard background checks? Then judge based on the quality of workers work ethic. If the quality is declining or suspecting of something more, then maybe some action is called for.

Using social media to target future work employees really is like placing a camera inside the house for future work employees.

[pasacon]

Interesting... Funny that allowing your prospective employer to view your facebook account could answer all the questions that they aren't allowed to ask you outright.

They could end up learning your:

race
ethnicity
place of birth
marital status
sexuality
Age
etc.

I wonder if you could file a discrimination claim successfully if they required you to give your user name and password for a job and by association all the answers they would want to those prohibited questions were answered.

[AshyPhoenix]

Oh, I would be SO screwed. Almost every single thing I post on there is vulgar and violently offensive.

[braex27]

I would leave the job interview and sue.

[voyager1994]

If it's the perfect job with a guaranteed offer of employment based on my asking salary, car, 8 weeks annual leave, monthly overseas trips, with a gorgeous hot dude assistant who would be willing to satisfy my sexual fantasies if I get bored at work, and also with an equally gorgeous hot dude supervisor who'd be willing to be a threesome with me and the hot dude assistant at least once a week, why not?