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If an employer interviewing you asked for your - Facebook password, would you give it? (sm)
Posted: Mar 25, 2012
This story has been popping up in the news lately, and I find it very distressing! How low will a company stoop to find a way to practice hiring discrimination?
Imagine yourself interviewing in an office or on the phone, and they ask if you use Facebook, Twitter, etc., and request you to hand over your password! Would you do it? I sure hope not! Most likely I would lose my cool and laugh in their faces, but still no way would I ever do that. WHAT an invasion of privacy!
Have any of you been asked that, or similar questions, while interviewing for an MT job?
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no, I would not. I don't invite them to my home either. - nor would I let them run a credit chect. they are
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(sorry) to continue - they are crossing the line. - unless I can do the same.
[ In Reply To ..]bur NOOOO, they would not allow it.
Just like anyone who says they are recording the conversation "for quality" - I tell them the same and they are thrown aback for a moment.
I hate when employers try to control what we do on - OUR OWN TIME. (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]Any time that they're not paying me for is MY OWN. And what I think, say or do on my own time is my own business, NOT theirs.
Invading privacy - Another MT
[ In Reply To ..]Quite a long time ago, I was told that the job I was applying for as an MT for a medical company in house would require I go through a background check, which included a credit check. It devastated me when they turned me down for the job, as I had never experienced anything like that, and I just about told them what they could do with their job. At the time, I was a single mother with 4 children and felt they had ripped away a chance for me to care for my family. My son works for the government and yes, in his case, they do a background check, send the FBI out to question your past friends, neighbors and also check on your family. This was due to the position he has now, and of course there is a credit check; in fact, they can and do go into anything like your Facebook accounts, Twitter et cetera. But, I think it is absolutely absured that they ask for your password and check that too if you are applying for an MT position. That truly is an invasion of your privacy and rights. However, I still hear of MT companies that do credit checks, but they are few and far between. I used to remember a time when VR was never heard of, and I actually made a very good salary and could take care of my family. I wish I could go back in time. When I left Virginia to come to Florida 25 years ago I made about $18.00 per hour. When I came to Florida, I started out at a whopping $8.25 per hour!!! Since then it has gotten worse and sadly to say this profession will never be the same. I read recently that the jobs to go into today are service-related positions such as massage therapists, respiratory therapists, counseling, occupational therapists and physical therapists and nursing. They say they are in high demand and this will increase in the future. Sure wish I had done that, but would encourage any young person to try those fields.
Password???!!! Hello! Identify theft. - nm
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I would either hang up or walk out of the interview. - Zville MT
[ In Reply To ..]I've never been asked this, but there's just no way - that would be like asking for your bank account number!
Anyway, they wouldn't get much from my facebook page except that I play Farmville waaayy too much :)
Of course I wouldn't...however, - AnonToo
[ In Reply To ..]I know A LOT of people in HR (not in the transcription world) and they ARE looking at social media before interviews usually. If it's sales, sometimes they want you to be REALLY ACTIVE as well.
I cringe at some of the stuff grown up adults (meaning over 30) post on facebook because I think it's going to come back to haunt people. I'm probably more old fashioned when it comes to that stuff though. I LIKE my privacy.
I like my privacy too, thats why I dont have FB or twitter. - nm
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I would NOT give it and I would also - Observer
[ In Reply To ..]call the AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION.
I dont use Facebook or Twitter, but you hear all the - time about people being
[ In Reply To ..]fired for something they posted on their facebook or twitter accounts. Facebook and Twitter are public and even if you dont accept friend requests or whatever there are always ways for people to get into your account or veiw your posts.
Just never got into the whole social media thing. It wont be long before I lose interest in this website and quit coming back, nothing against it, just not into the whole internet soical media thing.
No job is ever going to censor what I want to write! - Although I dont use Twitter much, (sm)
[ In Reply To ..]I'm on Facebook all the time. It's how my friends & I stay in touch during the week, since I only see them on the weekend.
You can set privacy settings on Facebook so that your postings are only visible by friends. And you have control over who you "friend", and who you don't. I may rant about work on FB, but I don't post where I work on my profile, and actually not that much about myself on it, either.
It's also possible to have "secret groups" on FB, even among your group of friends, that only invitees can join, post on, or even see. Although privacy isn't guaranteed, I feel any company that would go to whatever lengths it took to hack into my FB account to eavesdrop on my private life is no company I would ever want to work for, anyway. So if they hacked in, read something they didn't like, and refused to hire me, too darned bad. Their loss, not mine.
Going too far - cmk
[ In Reply To ..]I'd probably be snippy and say sure, as long as I can have yours too, and for every password I'm asked for, I'll ask for yours back. Probably wouldn't get hired, though. 'cause bottom line - not happening!
I would offer to give it they gave me theirs. - this is nuts
[ In Reply To ..]Seriously. I've gone on some job interviews just out of curiosity and for practice and I interview the interviewer. It's kind of fun to ask THEM questions like, why would I want to work for them. What do they like and dislike most about their job, etc. If they asked me for my FB pswd, I'd definitely be asking for the password to their HR software.
a password is supposed to be secret. Why would I entrust it to - anyone who could do anything
[ In Reply To ..]they wanted with my name on it. I don't think so. Why would an employer need to get into my facebook page. If they want to ask to be friends, that should be enough. No, I have never been asked this question.
It was Maryland Dept of Corrections in 2010. - might be on CNN .. my ..
[ In Reply To ..]local news just carried the story.
cRaZy!
I'd like to make a suggestion... - Becky
[ In Reply To ..]Along similar lines, I would suggest all working adults make their FB page private and only for friends (not even for friends of friends). I am a very solid person with nothing to hide and nothing to ever be embarrassed about, so my page was public. I then got notification from my MT company that a bill collector called them looking for me. The ONLY way they could have known about that new job of mine was on FB. I was mortifed that they called there. I have since made everything private. To the OP, never would I give a password. It's crossing the line to the millionth degree!
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