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March 20, 2012
12:05 • 1 year ago
A note to potential employers who want us to give them our social media passwords in order to get a job
Dear potential employers: This is not your house. Do not ask for the keys. Do not expect, while we’re out working hard, to open up the fridge and grab out a Yuengling, kick up your feet on the couch and watch an episode of “How I Met Your Mother” on the Roku. Do not expect to take a shower in our bathroom or try on the neckties in our closet. Our guitar: Not your property to practice “Wonderwall” on — it has no jurisdiction on our ability to sort paperwork or solve complex problems. If you think it does, find someone else. And don’t even think about trying to change the thermostat. You are not allowed inside unless we let you in. And we’re not letting you in. If you’re a job-seeker, and the employer is asking for passwords to e-mail or various social media accounts, we suggest that you tell them exactly where to take that job and shove it. So potential employers who have no respect for the personal lives of employees: Shove it. (hat tip toxiedesigns)

A note to potential employers who want us to give them our social media passwords in order to get a job

Dear potential employers: This is not your house. Do not ask for the keys. Do not expect, while we’re out working hard, to open up the fridge and grab out a Yuengling, kick up your feet on the couch and watch an episode of “How I Met Your Mother” on the Roku. Do not expect to take a shower in our bathroom or try on the neckties in our closet. Our guitar: Not your property to practice “Wonderwall” on — it has no jurisdiction on our ability to sort paperwork or solve complex problems. If you think it does, find someone else. And don’t even think about trying to change the thermostat. You are not allowed inside unless we let you in. And we’re not letting you in. If you’re a job-seeker, and the employer is asking for passwords to e-mail or various social media accounts, we suggest that you tell them exactly where to take that job and shove it. So potential employers who have no respect for the personal lives of employees: Shove it. (hat tip toxiedesigns)

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  5. qthewetsprocket reblogged this from incenseandcookies and added:
    Dear potential employers who think it’s your right to pull this nonsense: fuck you. Fuck you right in the ear. No love,...
  6. incenseandcookies reblogged this from moneyisnotimportant and added:
    I’ve been following this in the news. It’s infuriating (or maybe I’m just easy to infuriate these days).
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    I think I would laugh and say nothing, but then if they said “No, I’m serious.” I think I’d just very calmly say, “Okay....
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    If this ever happens to me, I make no guarantees as to what will spill forth out of my mouth. I’ll probably be either...
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  18. sheisstrangerthanfiction reblogged this from oceanplait and added:
    I have a feeling that the first potential employer that asks for this information from me will get punched in the face.
  19. oceanplait reblogged this from mysticmementos and added:
    Precisely. It is not part of your job to seek information on our private lives. You should be far more interested in our...
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  26. kisetsu-no-sakura reblogged this from abakkus and added:
    this is why I don’t have a Facebook.
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    It’s good to want to do this and I would do this anyway, but mine would be “Sorry, I don’t have a Facebook” because I...
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    what I wanna know is what happens when the person applying is one of maybe 5 people in America who doesn’t have a...
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