At 12:55 01-11-2002 -0600, Dan Minette wrote:
Actually, it is worse: I am speaking from experience. I have seen employers use literally anything to determine whether or not to fire someone. I have even had one employer who kept track of how often I went to the toilet...> If he uses that sort of methods, he is likely to use other > questionable reasons as well to decide whether or not to fire an > employee (such as "how often does this employee leave his desk to get > some coffee?" and "I am a smoker -- is this employee opposed to > smoking?"). Not the kind of employer *I* would want to work for.To put it bluntly, you are speaking from ignorance.
Not everyone works for the government.
Who said anything about working for the government?
Then that person should show such behaviour that such a question mark would not appear in the first place. Everyone is responsible for his/her own actions and the consequences of those actions. I mean, if you had a criminal record, and an employer would decide not to hire you because of that criminal record, would you blame the government for your not-getting-the-job because they keep such records?However, when someone is looking for work, they don't need a question mark by their name. That is usually enough to get someone in the discard pile.
Your analogy is flawed: finding something about FREX you on the Web would be several orders of magnitude easier than finding a needle of which you only know that it is in a haystack somewhere in Kansas. Example: I just did a Google search on "Dan Minette"; Google returned 232 results and only needed 0.18 seconds for it.> Second, it would not make any difference if I would put such messages > on a website, because those messages are already a matter of public record > record (they are available from at least two on-line archives). You know better than that. Its like saying that it makes no difference, given that a needle exists in a haystack in the state of Kansas, that someone offers a service to fetch the needle for someone and place it on their desk. After all, it was in an accessable place.
I challenge you to find a needle in an haystack in Kansas within 0.18 seconds... <GRIN>
Let's assume for a moment that I had put some negative information about you on a website; what would be the odds of an employer selecting that specific link from the hundreds of results a search on your name would generate?There are billions upon billions of bytes of information on the www. To set things up so that negative information is selected when someone's name is typed in a search engine is not the same as it being buried in near 100,000 messages of one of hundreds of thousands of mailing lists and newsgroups.
Jeroen "You do the crime, you do the time" van Baardwijk
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