Would you give your employer your facebook password if asked?

[AlpsStranger]

An answer like "no, I wont give you sexual favors" is somehow borderline... I would accept it, but it isn't an answer that open dialogue, it closes it instead.
Bad negotiation strategy.

Unacceptable is unacceptable. I wouldn't let a prospective employer rummage through my trash or bug my house, either.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I don't believe he is commenting on the acceptability of the practice. He is making comment on how best to deal with the request in terms of the desired outcome of the interview.

 

[AlpsStranger]

If your boss asks for a BJ in exchange for a job you don't compromise and give him a handjob instead.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

If your boss asks for a BJ in exchange for a job you don't compromise and give him a handjob instead.

Bad example because that would be enough for me not to want the job so I don't require a tactical response to the question. I just decline.

If I found the facebook request odious but not odious enough for me to not want the job, it's not unreasonable advice to suggest a smart way to avoid meeting the request whilst not blowing and possibly even enhancing ones chances in the interview.

 

[AlpsStranger]

I guess I find their desire to perform a deep surveillance on my personal life just as offensive as asking me for a BJ.

 

[rugbyLEAGUEfan]

I guess I find their desire to perform a deep surveillance on my personal life just as offensive as asking me for a BJ.

Then it's entirely appropriate that you would and should respond without compromise and I respect that entirely. But Wolfigor's post didn't assume that stance.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Then it's entirely appropriate that you would and should respond without compromise and I respect that entirely. But Wolfigor's post didn't assume that stance.

Fair enough I suppose.

 

[wolfigor]

Then it's entirely appropriate that you would and should respond without compromise and I respect that entirely. But Wolfigor's post didn't assume that stance.

yes, my post was written in a rather specific context

 

[Quackers]

So then you acknowledge there is no true privacy on Facebook, basically invalidating your previous remark that I quoted?

Dude, look at your sig I know very well where you live and I imagine I could piece together all the information over the years you've posted here and find out who you are.

I also know your job and what you look like!

 

[Leoreth]

Ugh, the more I read about this the happier I am that I've never been subjected to this sort of mind games before.

 

[Akka]

Anyone asking for me to give them a personnal information such as this would be metaphorically get a flipped bird. That's just insanely intrusive and unprofessional.

(anyway, I don't have a Facebook page, but the total lack of good behaviour and incredibly intrusive attempt shown by such a request would make me enraged all the same)

Of course, a few exceptions can be made for sensitive job positions (like government/security jobs).

 

[AlpsStranger]

I might be willing to be probed if I was going to be given a nuclear suitcase, but I'm not spreading the cheeks for your flashlight just to get a mundane career.

 

[bhsup]

Dude, look at your sig I know very well where you live and I imagine I could piece together all the information over the years you've posted here and find out who you are.

I also know your job and what you look like!

Yes, but as I said...

I, personally, am not that terribly concerned about it, but I totally understand why others may be freaked out over it. I don't have a facebook account because facebook strikes me as ridiculously stupid, not because of privacy concerns.

Take Valka for example. She goes to great lengths to preserve and protect her online anonymity, as should be her right. She should never have to reveal anything of her activities online just because some company HR hooligan wants to violate her right to privacy.

 

[AlpsStranger]

Take Valka for example. She goes to great lengths to preserve and protect her online anonymity, as should be her right. She should never have to reveal anything of her activities online just because some company HR hooligan wants to violate her right to privacy.

Well said. I think women also have a particular interest in carefully controlling their privacy. I have insights into why this is that can only come from being a heterosexual male

 

[Antilogic]

Well said. I think women also have a particular interest in carefully controlling their privacy. I have insights into why this is that can only come from being a heterosexual male

Dude, with your current avatar...

 

[AlpsStranger]

Hey, that avatar isn't supposed to represent what I aspire to be you know

 

[Quintillus]

giving them access to my facebook page would give them access to private message correspondence, which they have no business viewing.

Indeed. Similar to why I wouldn't give them access to my e-mail, or say, "Oh sure, you can check my [personal] mailbox and open the letters in it every afternoon".

This would also be a red flag in that this would indicate that if they didn't even care about their employees' personal lives being private, they almost surely wouldn't take customers' privacy seriously.

Even if they'd hire me after that, it's highly unlikely I'd accept an offer of employment, regardless of current employment status.

 

[Till]

If a company can't manage with CV+interview+probation period, they really suck at HR on top of all the ethical issues and can get stuffed with extreme prejudice.