• queenparanoia said on Jun 20, 2009....

  that sucks... :-(

• lfbno7 said on Jun 20, 2009....

  if any job application asked for my password i'd tell them that my password was fuckyouyousillybitch.

• queenparanoia said on Jun 20, 2009....

  lennie you just made melaugh... that was funny!!!

• beyondtheveil said on Jun 20, 2009....

  I love it the way the government does everything for my protection...
  
  it makes me all squishy inside.
  

• travelr712 said on Jun 20, 2009....

  if they ask, you can always say 'a username on sc? oh yeah, i forgot!' :-P

• gingersoul said on Jun 20, 2009....

  Queenie.....yep, short and sweet like you said...
  
  Lenny....username: wannafuckingseeitupclose...password:foggetabouit...

• gingersoul said on Jun 20, 2009....

  BeyBey.....you and i are made from the same dough, my philly....lol.....
  
  Trav......uhmm....do you think it would be enough?
  

• simplyconfused said on Jun 20, 2009....

  I'd like to know who the people are that would actually go along with that. You know there are people that would put that. =p

• gingersoul said on Jun 20, 2009....

  Simply...oh, i know that.....that's the danger, actually......
  I would say conservative people would put up with this crap...
  

• simplyconfused said on Jun 20, 2009....

  Yeah I know it's, bleh. There are a lot of stupid people in the world honestly.  You have passwords and such for reasons.... 
  Yeah conservative people definitely would, not overly bright but.. *sigh* people in this world I'm telling you.

• gingersoul said on Jun 20, 2009....

  What do you do when you have to deal with them though? Do you start a confrontation or let them have their way?

• simplyconfused said on Jun 20, 2009....

  That's a difficult situation.  I think it depends on the situation really.  Often time I find that confronting doesn't work as some of the people can be closed minded and they won't budge and take opinions.  Not saying that about everybody, just anytime it's been attempted that I've seen.  I have no real idea what to do though, confront or leave it be. Bleh. 

• MsStar39 said on Jun 20, 2009....

  That is unbelievable.

• RollingC said on Jun 21, 2009....

  Well that's one place I won't be applying for a job anytime soon anyway.
  Rc
   
  ps - But I still think that there should be another way to give them what they want without sacrificing your password + username
   

• Voltaire said on Jun 21, 2009....

  Well they'd not get mine. Rather look for a new job then.
  
  I have rights to!
  

• Voltaire said on Jun 21, 2009....

  Well they'd not get mine. Rather look for a new job then.
  
  I have rights to!
  

• PassionTraveler said on Jun 21, 2009....

  
  I was asked recently for a job application to provide URLs of my main social media site profile pages. In my case, the position for which I was applying was in fact a writing position FOR SOCIAL MEDIA SITES, and I can certainly see that they'd want to asses my degree of comfort in navigating those sites, however, I still declined expressing that although I had nothing to hide, my use of the sites was more for keeping up with friends and family, and for cathartic journaling purposes.
  
  Most of my profiles were set as invisible to the common public but not for any untoward reasons, but simply more for my own privacy. Many of the things, although benign, were intensely painful. I am not ashamed of anything I've posted in this blog or my other social media sites, but this is something I would not want an employer or anyone not in my trusted circle reviewing at will.
  
  I only maintain one or two publicly facing profiles and did provide those URLs, but if my others are not visible to anyone but my friends and family, you better believe there is no reason they have for wanting to see them.
  
  They seemed to understand my response and so far, I'm still in the running for the job.
  
  PT

• PassionTraveler said on Jun 21, 2009....

  I was able to prove that my skill sets far surpassed any need to peek at my privates... Private Profiles that is. ;)

• javadewd said on Jun 21, 2009....

  Only a bunch of goofy, elitist, arrogant fucking tools would actually surrender their personal sovereignty in this manner for a job! Does it come with knee-pads and a toothbrush? And God forbid they DON'T get the job, then where does all of that personal information go? Into a database that can be easily hacked? A drawer in a filing cabinet that can be easily accessed? Damn sheep!

• Me-Myself&I said on Jun 21, 2009....

  unbelievable! no way. total control thingy. they are nuts!

• Lucytorial said on Jun 21, 2009....

  You would have to be utterly stupid to even think it was real, even so there is no way I would ever ever do anything like that.  dahh!

• Hegemone said on Jun 22, 2009....

  Wow, yeah, that would not be cool.  I'd have to walk away from that job.

• mOOn_platOOn said on Jun 22, 2009....

  O
  
  How the hell can they enforce that?  I'll show them mine if they show me theirs.
  
  That's nuts.
  
  O

• javadewd said on Jun 22, 2009....

  Show them your nuts, mOOn!
  
  I'll do it!!
  
  {blumphubldupuhmnoombidum!}
  

• gingersoul said on Jun 22, 2009....

  Hey......this blog is turning REALLY interesting now.....LOL...

• BloggingMolly said on Jun 23, 2009....

  That is a complete invasion of privacy.

• hotaka said on Jun 27, 2009....

  I thought some of the alternative solutions were interesting: show the interviewer your FB page during the interview or make the city your friend on FB so they have access to your profile. It's interesting to note that in the old days when we actually talked to our friends or sent letters no one asked to sit in on our conversations to verify our integrity or to read our letters, except maybe in communist China and the Soviet Union where they didn't ask but just did it. But now that our words on frozen in cyberspace for all to see some employers want to take a look. How will things be in 20 years? How much access will people have to our "private lives" which we post in public domain?

• gingersoul said on Jun 27, 2009....

  Blogging....i completely agree with you.
  
  Hottie......it really sounds anachronistic, isn't?
  
  There is visibly a huge gap between the real society and the bureaucratic shape of the government.
  What you say its exactly what i thought at first reading: years ago we had only to talk with someone, in our best suits and with our teeth brushed well to have a job, faking our drug test using other people pee and everything was fine.
  Or simply avoiding certain drugs that stay too long in our system. And resume their use later on once hired.
  We know that of all the drugs the less harmful (weeds) stay in our system the longest while cocaine dissolves a lot quicker...
   
  But now they want to know what i feel on a Saturday night when i am out of friends or dates and i am at home all by myself maybe drinking too many beers and blogging stupidity??
   
  So what if somebody looking for a job makes up a complete fake Facebook page...with fake references..with faked contacts, with faked pictures and give it to his future emploeyee and then delete the page once hired?
  Would that be ok?
  
  
  

• feelthesydneylove said on Jul 11, 2009....

  Ginger....
  
  That wouldn't be ok obviously. This is the line where ethics become controversial and the bureaucracy becomes increasingly nosy in the personal privacy of our lives.
  
  Whatever happened to keeping the lives of work and at home entirely separate??
  
  This is an complete invasion of privacy. I would be pissed off.
  
  I don't see why employers would want to stick their heads in our personal business, which that would have nothing to do with them whatsoever, if we do have the capability to leave all our problems at home and still function as good employees at work.
  
  Sheesh, for the government that needs something to jog their memory that we are still imperfect human beings, damn it, and we do have the right and freedom of speech, to privately express ourselves for eyes not meant for them.
  
  Unbelievable.
  
  - Sydney
  

• gingersoul said on Jul 11, 2009....

  Sydney....yes....it's like that other employee who fired a woman because she got one sick day and they found out she was chatting on some site......i mean......what she was doing during her sick day was none of her employee business....
  
  She might have been sick all day until the moment she felt better and wanted to use some time chatting.
  
  
  
   
  

• feelthesydneylove said on Jul 12, 2009....

  Gingersoul...
  
  Wow that's ridiculous. I can't believe that.
  
  - Sydney
  

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