Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-21 Thread Larry C. Lyons
To: cf-community Subject: Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords I have seen others like it.  At least it is getting a little press. Until last year, the city of Bozeman, Mont., had a long-standing policy of asking job applicants for passwords to their email addresses

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-21 Thread Cameron Childress
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Larry C. Lyons larrycly...@gmail.comwrote: When a company asks for either, my user name and password or require me to sign such an agreement, then there is no way I want to work for the company. If they do not trust their employees in either matter, they most

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread Medic
Yeah I saw that on linkedIn today. The sad thing is that so many people are desperate to work they'd likely just fork over the password. When there's a glut of job seekers people hiring can act any way they want. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson jmi...@gmail.comwrote: WTF?

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread Jerry Milo Johnson
Wait, you saw THAT article, or one like it on another site? On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Medic hofme...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah I saw that on linkedIn today. The sad thing is that so many people are desperate to work they'd likely just fork over the password. When there's a glut of job

RE: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread Eric Roberts
I have read about this before as well. I would say no, that is a violation of FB TOS...sorry. -Original Message- From: Jerry Milo Johnson [mailto:jmi...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:28 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread Medic
Not that one. This one about the same phenomenon http://finance.yahoo.com/news/job-seekers-getting-asked-facebook-080920368.html On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson jmi...@gmail.comwrote: Wait, you saw THAT article, or one like it on another site? On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread Medic
...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 6:28 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords Wait, you saw THAT article, or one like it on another site? On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Medic hofme...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah I saw that on linkedIn

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread PT
I have seen others like it. At least it is getting a little press. Until last year, the city of Bozeman, Mont., had a long-standing policy of asking job applicants for passwords to their email addresses, social-networking websites and other online accounts. E-mail passwords? Fark you guys.

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread PT
You might as well take your name out of the running anyway. On 3/20/2012 8:00 PM, Medic wrote: That's a great answer actually. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:45 PM, Eric Roberts ow...@threeravensconsulting.com wrote: I have read about this before as well. I would say no, that is a violation

RE: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread Eric Roberts
seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords I have seen others like it. At least it is getting a little press. Until last year, the city of Bozeman, Mont., had a long-standing policy of asking job applicants for passwords to their email addresses, social-networking websites and other online

Re: Article: Job seekers getting asked for Facebook passwords

2012-03-20 Thread Scott Stewart
makes that worse is it's not just a company, but a the CITY of Bozaman. That's the government asking for that. *Danger Wil Robinson! Danger!* -Original Message- From: PT [mailto:cft...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 7:07 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Article: Job seekers