I came across a news
report about employers “requesting” prospective employees to provide their
Facebook passwords so that they can “predict possible negative behaviours and
attitudes.” You’d think after the 2008 recession that companies would be too
busy covering their arses to insist that their employees be squeaky clean even
in their personal communications. A big ask, you’d think, from a bunch of
indicted frauds. Or a swindling of frauds. Isn't that a nice collective noun?
How bad does the
economy have to be for such demands to be acceptable? Are the legal departments
getting that bored? Or is this a last
ditch attempt by HR managers to find something to live for – other people’s
friends?
I think it’s
about time we all got a bit cocky too. Let’s ask an interviewer why he chose a
life of such mind-numbing drudgery. Ask them about the fraud allegations their company faced the year
before last and the funds being channelled to the firm through
tax havens. Or better still, let’s ask them for their Facebook passwords and mock them for their sad single-digit friend
lists.
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