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[NuckingFuts]

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Two extremely well-qualified and capable graduates from my academic institution were denied highly desirable job positions recently. Apparently their potential employers checked out their Twitter feeds and posts on Facebook, which included not-so-flattering images of said candidates in various states of undress, some perhaps involving alcohol, and deemed them to be distasteful.

Have any of you guys heard of this **** in path? I knew this sort of thing happened in other disciplines, but not path.

 

[Tissue issue]

Two extremely well-qualified and capable graduates from my academic institution were denied highly desirable job positions recently. Apparently their potential employers checked out their Twitter feeds and posts on Facebook, which included not-so-flattering images of said candidates in various states of undress, some perhaps involving alcohol, and deemed them to be distasteful.

Have any of you guys heard of this **** in path? I knew this sort of thing happened in other disciplines, but not path.

Pardon my facebook ignorance, but from talking with some I know who are facebook users, there are privacy settings so that just your "friends" can see your posts/photos. Am I wrong about this??

 

[yaah]

Pardon my facebook ignorance, but from talking with some I know who are facebook users, there are privacy settings so that just your "friends" can see your posts/photos. Am I wrong about this??

A lot of under 25s (and older people who think they are under 25) don't really get the concept of privacy settings. Stuff like that can be an open book. I have cousins like that, they don't even seem to consider that people might make an impression of them based on that.

With older people and social media, the problem isn't drugs and booze but politics. Some people can't hold their tongue about politics.

I think this can happen anywhere - I know of people who check facebook on any potential new hires or interviewees. Or just do a google search. Hiring a new person is risky - you arne't just hiring the professional, in a lot of ways you're hiring the whole person - ideally they are going to be with you for many years. Stability and common sense in your personal life can be considered critical assets.

 

[2121115]

A lot of under 25s (and older people who think they are under 25) don't really get the concept of privacy settings. Stuff like that can be an open book. I have cousins like that, they don't even seem to consider that people might make an impression of them based on that.

With older people and social media, the problem isn't drugs and booze but politics. Some people can't hold their tongue about politics.

I think this can happen anywhere - I know of people who check facebook on any potential new hires or interviewees. Or just do a google search. Hiring a new person is risky - you arne't just hiring the professional, in a lot of ways you're hiring the whole person - ideally they are going to be with you for many years. Stability and common sense in your personal life can be considered critical assets.

QFT about politics. Many spew political venom from both sides and I have seen it tank people.

 

[TMZ2007]

If you don't know by this point to sanitize/lock down/totally eliminate your social media presence during your job search, you're an idiot.

 

[rollwithit]

QFT about politics. Many spew political venom from both sides and I have seen it tank people.

The sad thing is that we are so polarized these days you don't even have to spew venom to get people to react negatively. We are so sensitive that simply stating "I disagree" is almost reacted to as a physical assault. If I were job hunting, I wouldn't even want the simple word "republican" or "democrat" next to my name in an internet search. Of course, I wouldn't want to work for someone that would hire me or not hire me based on one word, but the fact it's a concern speaks sadly about how judgmental we can be based off of very limited information.

It's to the point where we have two labels one MUST be lumped into:

Liberal: tree-hugging, money spending, commie douche
Conservative: cousin f---ing, gun toting, racist a-hole.

Reality says 80%+ of us are nowhere near those two extremes, but it seems you are either one or the other these days - no matter what you say.

 

[WEBB PINKERTON]

The sad thing is that we are so polarized these days you don't even have to spew venom to get people to react negatively. We are so sensitive that simply stating "I disagree" is almost reacted to as a physical assault. If I were job hunting, I wouldn't even want the simple word "republican" or "democrat" next to my name in an internet search. Of course, I wouldn't want to work for someone that would hire me or not hire me based on one word, but the fact it's a concern speaks sadly about how judgmental we can be based off of very limited information.

It's to the point where we have two labels one MUST be lumped into:

Liberal: tree-hugging, money spending, commie douche
Conservative: cousin f---ing, gun toting, racist a-hole.

Reality says 80%+ of us are nowhere near those two extremes, but it seems you are either one or the other these days - no matter what you say.

Both parties are hypocrites and many of the elected officials are polarizing us more and more with their rhetoric. A republican running for governor in my state compared the supreme court decision on obamacare to 9/11. I cringe everytime I see Deborah Wasserman Shultz speak. I dont think there has ever been a politician that I cant stand as much as her and her hateful rhetoric.

My favorite moment from the conventions, besides Clint Eastwood, was the democrats showing a tribute to Ted Kennedy when they have been accusing Republicans of waging a war on women. Chappaquiddick anyone?

Ole Webb Pinkerton wont be voting in 2012.

 

[mlw03]

Two extremely well-qualified and capable graduates from my academic institution were denied highly desirable job positions recently. Apparently their potential employers checked out their Twitter feeds and posts on Facebook, which included not-so-flattering images of said candidates in various states of undress, some perhaps involving alcohol, and deemed them to be distasteful.

Have any of you guys heard of this **** in path? I knew this sort of thing happened in other disciplines, but not path.

I'm not really surprised by this either, for the reasons stated by others. I certainly post political stuff on my facebook page, but I do impose limits. I also now work/live in Canada, where my admittedly liberal slant goes over much better with many colleagues. I agree with the advice to any job applicant that they need to make their social media pages private.

 

[lipomas]

Think about it - would you want to hire someone who you see behaving like a lush in pictures? It's all well and good to say, "HEY OLD MAN YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE YOUNG PEOPLE HAVING FUN WHOOO HOOK 'EM HORNS!!" but the old man has to work with that, and worry about the young person being a drunk off hours or embarrassing the group.

Of course, you might reply that the old man might be a closet drunk or serial abuser or something like that, and you may be right. But we can only act on what we see and know. And people do realize, of course, that any time a patient has any kind of contact with the doctor they tend to go ask Google what to think of said doctor.

 

[Pathwrath]

Have any of you guys heard of this **** in path? I knew this sort of thing happened in other disciplines, but not path.

I, too, thought path was immune because we are all supposedly socially inept, but that is changing.

I would not want to work in an organization that routinely patrols facebook and twitter feeds, anyway. People are entitled to lives outside of work and that includes occasionally tasteless behavior. My employer is not my spouse, my child, or my friend.

 

[scienceguy19]

anyone watch the debate last night?

Is it just me or were those stupid live twitter comments on the bottom of the screen during the debate really annoying?

 

[mlw03]

What channel was that? Didn't notice them on CBS.