Okay I Have a Problem With Employers Continuing To Ask For Passwords...

[GaryAngel]

Better yet, don't have one at all

I deleted mine about 1.5 months ago. It was making me buggy.

[det2orl]

I deleted mine about 1.5 months ago. It was making me buggy.

Yeah, I closed mine some time ago. Didn't delete completely. I go log back in to check on a couple family members from time to time though.

[tommyz]

Make sure you shut of your phones too, as they will probably want to listen to your messages.Thats probably coming next...Hell, have your line tapped..

[Willie Mays Hayes]

I'd refuse to work for a company that asks that info. I wouldn't give anything out, even something as inconsequent as my Craigslist account password.

I can't be alone on this and my feeling is that these companies would miss out on decent talent and get stuck with a few extra low performers (desperate for work types).

I don't have issues with employers researching your profiles. Anything you put out there is fair game.

[Marklar]

I'd refuse to work for a company that asks that info. I wouldn't give anything out, even something as inconsequent as my Craigslist account password.

I can't be alone on this and my feeling is that these companies would miss out on decent talent and get stuck with a few extra low performers (desperate for work types).

I don't have issues with employers researching your profiles. Anything you put out there is fair game.

Agree with ya. I would never hand over a password willingly.

[SportsFromA2]

Simple solution: delete your Facebook while you're looking for a job. Reactivate it once you get the job if you still want it.

Better yet, don't have one at all

I'd go with the perma delete.

right but this precedent doesn't really apply to just facebook- at least all social networking (Twitter, myspace, google plus, etc)- and what's stopping from asking them for your e-mail/password?

[GaryAngel]

right but this precedent doesn't really apply to just facebook- at least all social networking (Twitter, myspace, google plus, etc)- and what's stopping from asking them for your e-mail/password?

like i said I in my earlier post one company wanted to scan my brother inlaws computer at home. companies are going way over the line.

[EvenflowTen]

I guess these kinds of things happen when there is a glut of potential employees and resumes submitted for jobs. That employers are going to look for not only an employee that is going to the job well, but will also represent the company well.

However this philosophy of asking for user names and passwords is not the right way to go about doing it. If you want to know my background, do the background check (only with my permission) and leave it at that.

The only way a potential employer or current employer will get any of that information from me is via a court order.

What do you think would happen if you walked into an interview, and when it was done, you asked the interviewer for the companies financial records, incorporation paperwork, and the backgrounds of all members of leadership? They would look at you like you just introduced them to running water.

[MoOff24]

My brother inlaw in Monroe put in for a job at either advance auto parts or autozone, and they wanted to come into the house and scan his home computer. He told them he didn't need the part time job that badly. He is retired from AT&T and wanted something to do.

wow you've gotta be kidding me. that's ridiculous.

[JDC48160]

The whole deal of wanting to come into your home and scan your personal computer is WAY over the line.

I'm not giving out any passwords, let alone letting someone into my home to check out my computer. I have personal documents and other assorted important items on my computer that NOBODY is getting their hands on.

[mtdman]

I wouldn't ask for passwords, but I DO search for the people on facebook when they apply. And I did a search for a candidate last fall who applied for a job for snow. I found out the dude had been arrested and convicted of stealing from a former employer and immediately cut him out of the herd.

I gave up facebook for lent, and I'm seriously considering dumping it permanently when lent is over. I was on there on sunday and there's nothing interesting about that thing at all anymore. I was hoping giving it up for lent would wean me off it and it worked.