Just came across this article:
"Job hunter balks at request to provide Facebook login"
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/TopStories/20120320/job-hunting-facebook-login-120320/
Reading through the article I became incensed at the attitude of these particular examples of employers, demanding e-mail passwords and Facebook login to private areas of a prospective employee's page.
I can understand the signing non-disclosure forms, depending on your line of work, but to prevent people from having an opinion about where they work sounds like serfdom to me. If it is slanderous or libelous then warn, and sue, but to try to muzzle people from the beginning feels like big brother is getting too close.
I don't do Facebook, but I probably would if I was of this generation, just hope I wouldn't be an idiot about it. My mother always said, "Don't tell people anything you wouldn't want shouted from the rooftop." I've tried.
As an aside: I got passport photos taken at Wal-Mart recently, the woman asked for my e-mail address, when I told her I didn't have one she was very pushy about it, 'surely I must have one.' (No, only when job hunting, other than that it lays dormant, never check it, never use it.)
Wow. Thanks for sharing
I signed a non disclose agreement and agreed to a non competition job agreement. In my line of work it is understandable. If I want to work a part-time job, I have to discuss it with HR first. No one that I have worked with has ever been told no to a second job. Since getting to know the people I work with, most of them are "my friends" on facebook. I work for a really good lard international company.
I can not however see giving my facebook information to people that I do not know. I would have thought any traits that make you unacceptable for a job would come out in the interview. I had to do several tests once I passed the first interview. One of the tests was a psych evaluation.
Once it's out on the net, you can not get it back but it still amazes me the kind of things people put out there. The whole thing is not good.
I had a job offer once from a government entity, the conditions of the employment included a list of things that they said I could not do on my own time and required me to submit personal data that in my opinion was none of their business as it did not have anything to do with the job. It was a good money and a great offer but I turned it down flat.
Employers these days are requiring more and more personal data and more and more control over the personal lives of their employees and they are getting away with this because they know people need jobs. Its getting scary.
DaScribbler
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