Legitimate concerns recently raised about people being asked for their social-media sites’ log-in info as part of a job interview or the hiring process.
If you desperately need a job and in order to continue being considered a candidate you are required to divulge all your social media accounts* and their passwords, would you? (If you lie about not having an account and are later found out, it is grounds for termination.)
*Besides the SDMB, examples include: Reddit, LiveJournal, 4chan, Giraffe, Fark.
Perhaps they have someone routinely monitor the various sites **Toucanna **mentioned.
In any event, my feeling is that at that exact moment I really didn’t give a shit about the job anymore and I would ask the person “why would you want to know that?” (followed by a rapid end to the interview.)
And yes, I know what it’s like to be unemployed and broke and feeling like if I don’t get the job I will never eat again.
Yep, you’re absolutely right. Which is why so many folks are appalled by employers requesting PWs for MyFace et al. I included divulging PWs as part of the OP because of what’s actually happening.
ETA: hm… now that I think about it, having the PW would give access to PMs and subscribed threads.
This. The notion is kind of silly they would even be aware of your membership as SDMB membership is kind of de facto anonymous unless you wish it to be otherwise.
In my situation, I have so many open job offers right now that I’d laugh in their face and tell them I keep my personal life separate from work, and if they are unclear on that concept then I don’t want to work for them in the first place.
Thank you for sharing that with us, Una. Maybe you could contribute some of your excess job offers to others who have been laid off and looking for the last few years.
Deny deny deny! The good thing about these boards is that I can be honest about past drug use, sexual proclivities and embracing my inner bitch - I censor my Facebook activity for this very reason, I’d hate to have to do so here as well!
If an employer had a user ID and a password for the SDMB, then I would expect a lot of spam from the employer using the job applicant’s ID and password. Or possibly, a confession that the job applicant enjoys having sex with barnyard animals, or likes to vote Republican, or some other questionable activity.
Signing up for the SDMB is free, and there is no legitimate reason for anyone or any company to demand another user’s password. The ONLY use for someone else’s password is to impersonate a particular user. If the company wants a presence on the SDMB, then it can sign up. If it wants to advertise, it can either buy advertising or it can buy a membership and place ads in Marketplace. If we (the moderation staff) suspect that a user’s account has been used by someone else, then we’re going to suspend the account and try to contact the user. If the suspect posts are spam, then we’ll hide them.
If we think that someone is posting while under the influence, we generally lock the thread. Sometimes we throw in a short-term suspension, but usually we don’t.
If you have my 2+ decades of experience and advanced degree(s) and experience successfully managing more than 100 projects and working at more than 600 job sites and professional and industry certifications in the US and abroad and government security clearance(s) and teaching experience in 20+ countries and at 3 universities and industry contacts and 100+ published papers and 12 books and a willingness to work 50-60 hour weeks every week, even working on Christmas freaking morning without pay or any comp time, sure. What, do you think jobs just come at random to people? Keeping a job and keeping attractive in the workplace is a second full-time job all of its own, every goddamn week.
I was explaining why I would feel free to tell the hypothetical prospective employer in the OP why they could fuck off. I’m unaware that we have to limit all our posts to a binary answer with other information lest somehow someone be offended in some way.
The scale also tips the other way. Less than two years ago my job was highly insecure and no one was hiring, and at one point I was probably within 2 weeks of being on the streets with no prospects at all, spending the last of my accumulated vacation time to pad my hours - spending all my vacation to work during the day to find new work. I didn’t see much sympathy then - in fact, fuck-all - when I mentioned that on here. :dubious:
I understand you’re in a bad place, but there’s absolutely nothing I can do about it. Your snark was unwarranted. Hopefully when you post that you have found a new job and things are looking positive for you in a troubled economy, no one will come in and dump on you to make you feel bad on a Saturday morning.
Since any job I’d be going for would be in the computer field, with an emphasis with computer security, I’d point out that giving out passwords is terrible practice and should never be done in any circumstances. Ask him how much extra work he’s had to do in the past because someone was stupid enough to give out a password to someone claiming “authority.”
As I posted in the other thread, my biggest concern is that my account information would be compromised, either by the company using it to post spam under my name, or by some bored employee or intern having themselves a good old time at my expense. And since this board is now Google searchable, other potential employers will find that.
“I’m sorry, but I use variations of the same password for all of my online accounts including the financial ones, and I’m not about to give out the password to my financial accounts for obvious reasons.”
Whether or not that’s true.
(And since I’m retired this is strictly hypothetical.)