[blackdog]

The latest hires tend to be vanilla souls with no critical thinking skills, zero ability beyond group-think, and engage in endless analysis paralysis to avoid making needed decisions on a timely basis.

The P-51 Mustang went from sketchbook to 100 per day production in less than six months. It now takes a decade to do the same.

We miss you Howard Hughes. Corporate management thinks they are legislators.

Thank all the information gleaners out there for refusing employment to our best and brightest because they did something stupid once or twice, leaving us with the mediocre and uneventful with good credit ratings who obeyed parking laws and never got into a bar-fight over a woman.

We are truely a soul-less nation.

[CORedneck]

Even speeding tickets can now derail your career !

> Thank all the information gleaners out there for refusing employment to our best and brightest because they did something stupid once or twice, leaving us with the mediocre and uneventful with good credit ratings who obeyed parking laws and never got into a bar-fight over a woman.

[ColdSteelTalon]

Hit the nail right on the head. :) God bless you...

[newzjunkey]

I knew one Canadian worker disciplined by an employer for posting a comment about his workday. It turned out they kept tabs on their employee's social network postings if those were publicly available.

I appreciate companies not wanting to draw negative attention to themselves and thus avoiding certain hires. With social media so many people freely link their personal and professional lives in a permanently public way. This wasn't a problem in days gone by. It's so much easier for people to look into who you've employed and the liabilities that my arise are not inconsequential.

We already see problems with the HR intelligentsia making stupefying decisions not to hire people who have been unemployed for a longer time during the Obama depression. I find that shameful.

You also can't not participate in these social sites because that too sends up a red flag for HR, particularly in tech jobs, where it's expected you'll have a public 'record' or trail of some kind online.

We may been some reforms to limit liability, restore some common sense to encourage hiring.