[Nachum]

Full title: How anything you've EVER said on the internet could be seen by employers as Feds approve firm that dishes dirt on applicants

[desertfreedom765]

This is one of the fruits of the job market being so bad.

Employers can pretty much do whatever they want to employees because in many cases the employee can’t leave.

Mandatory wellness programs, 24 hour support, etc are all in the future. (or present for some).

[bboop]

I had speakers come to our Middle School a few years ago, to talk to the kids about their jobs. One guy told me that every applicant he got he checked his FB posts.

[dljordan]

“Full title: How anything you’ve EVER said on the internet could be seen by employers as Feds approve firm that dishes dirt on applicants”

My employer and the Feds can kiss my rebel arse! That’s you IBM.

[ShadowAce]

[ShadowAce]

[antiRepublicrat]

So? If this were 40 years ago, imagine that you published in the local newspaper everything you now publish on Facebook and Twitter. Does anyone expect some prohibition against prospective employers reading the newspaper? Same thing. If you don’t want it public, don’t write it publicly.

[martin_fierro]

I just wanna go on record as saying that my boss is the warmest, most excellent, most giving humanitarian that Western Civilization has ever known.

love you, man.

[PapaBear3625]

One of the reports, released to Forbes magazine, flagged an applicant for 'demonstrating potentially violent behaviour' because he'd posted a photograph of him holding a gun on his Facebook account.

Pro-2A job applicants will not be considered. The company will not forward info about religion or sexual orientation, but I'm guessing that political orientation will be in the report.

[zeugma]

The internet has a long memory. I've found posts I made to mailing lists over 15 years ago in google searches.