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[–]72ndGender 22 insightful - 5 fun22 insightful - 4 fun23 insightful - 5 fun -  (7 children)

A good reminder to keep personal social media accounts that you use twice a year, and have your actual account be completely anonymous.

[–][deleted] 18 insightful - 3 fun18 insightful - 2 fun19 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

Or just avoid the corporate slave jobs that pull this shit altogether.

[–]72ndGender 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I would usually agree, but I just learned about the unwoke platform where employers don't use SJW standards for hiring. I'm guessing they won't cyberstalk applicants for offensive thoughts. But these are probably the smaller corporations, not the megacorps.

[–]bagano1 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

I stopped caring. I got shit on my criminal record, no convictions, just a bad joke I made on a board, lol, but there still is evidence of the encounter, I wrote un-PC letters to the paper, high school classmates didn't like me, had some falling out with bosses in my current line of work, but if it ever comes up, I don't care. Best thing I ever learned was how to walk out the door. Parents never taught me that, learned it myself. It does pay.

[–]yayblueberries 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Same but I never cared. In the sense that I finally deleted almost all of my social media accounts where the advice these days is to have them because jobs want to see that you have them. Screw that, why do I need to be FORCED to have social media accounts so I can get hired?!

It never hurt me, I found a great job in December. What hurt me was these cowardly crybabies who would keep fake social media accounts demanding all "non-essential" businesses close. I worked at a non-profit making okay money, but non-profits are notorious for always being in the red or having to float funds because governments are measly with them. So the job is permanently gone. But I got it despite not playing the social media game.

[–]72ndGender 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sounds like you would be best off starting your own business or bleeding the welfare system dry.

[–]bagano1 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, I work and am actually well-known for being reliable and most importantly, sane on the job. I actually tend to find that if you start off in any organization with an DGAF attitude, they are afraid to get on your *** as much. Works well with women too.

[–]72ndGender 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's good to hear. And IDGAF is a solid tactic for most of our interactions with people. They can't control you as easily.

[–]bagano1 10 insightful - 4 fun10 insightful - 3 fun11 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

They're going to have the same problem the police and other organizations in the US have very soon then.

If you're going to dig up every piece of dirt on someone and try to eliminate them as a candidate for a job, you will never find a qualified candidate.

In fact, that just tells me you're a loser I don't want to work for and that I dodged a bullet. I once applied for a job at a restaurant when it first opened and they were basically happy if you were breathing. Coworker of mine wrote a help wanted ad a year later and, absolute brown noser type, and her job requirements were basically asking for someone who worked at a fine-dining restaurant in NYC, it was hilarious. We all read the requirements and just had a grand time laughing.

I actually work in a field where sometimes I have to cover for people who are like skilled/certified in the job. Sometimes, I keep telling my boss, I'm not qualified to do that, you know that right? They don't care. They even ask why I don't go to school and get certified. I'm just like, "Nah." I don't think I'm good at it and for various reasons you probably wouldn't understand, If I did get certified, I'd get a terrible assignment and get run out anyways, so what is the point?

That's why I play the lottery, couple bucks a day, well worth the investment to get out of the rat race.

[–]yayblueberries 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

If you're going to dig up every piece of dirt on someone and try to eliminate them as a candidate for a job, you will never find a qualified candidate.

So many jobs pull this stunt these days. They are the ones you hear crying in the news about how they can't find anybody to hire despite a recession or despite a pandemic where people are going to lose unemployment benefits! I lost count of how many jobs I've interviewed for who claim to love all of my stuff then pull out something menial and stupid to bitch about. Often it's that they THINK I live too far from the job that I will eventually quit because of the commute. Even when I try to reassure them they won't even listen, despite that I have solid reasons why a half hour commute ain't shit to me. And I live in a region where MOST people actually commute over an hour to work one way.

They pull at straws to have a problem with every single candidate and then I see the job open again in a month and for months on end, nearly every single time.

[–]chadwickofwv 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They're probably only looking for black women, and you don't fit into one or both of those categories.

[–]bagano1 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder if women are to blame for this? A lot of men usually will hire someone if they like them or think they will work hard. Women are notorious for being flaky.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I'm sure most people on Saidit know big brother is always watching... Still, to have it shoved in your face in this way is just offensive. This honestly makes me a little concerned about someone discovering my catalog of thought crimes aka my Saidit profile

[–]Vortex 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Anonymity.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

When I'm hiring people I always do a social media search for them. If they are posting anything remotely political under their own name, I won't hire them. Not because I particularly care about their politics, but because it shows terrible judgment and I don't want to manage morons / liabilities.

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 4 fun7 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

That's terribly unprofessional. I never post anything political. My political posts would just distract from the nudes I put on Facebook.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Read your comment a couple times before I was sure I don't want to work for you.

[–]Wrangel 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

but because it shows terrible judgment and I don't want to manage morons / liabilities.

Terrible judgement is not trying to influence your society and sitting in a boat drifting with no sail or rudder. Society needs people to be involved.

[–]Richard_Parker 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

This is most disconcerting. I skimmed the comments and some suggested not having faceberg profile could be a detriment, so they set up some dummy account. Do others here agree?

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, I have dummy profiles. I actually had such profiles since the very beginning, ever since my bosses and co-workers wanted to be friends on Facebook. I always quarantine them. They have no business knowing about my family life and personal issues. We consider it normal now to blast our personal details onto the Internet.

[–]Richard_Parker 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It really is that much of a liability to say "I am not on facebook?'

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Probably not. Maybe five years ago.

“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.” -- C.S.Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Creepy as hell

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Pretty much. There is no other way to say it.

[–]suckitreddit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

What in the world? This is what companies do nowadays? Or is it just them? Probably better that you didn't get that job. It would've been a nightmare. Fuck 'em!