With the advent of so many social media outlets, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others, many have relinquished their privacy to brazenly exhibit their personal, and sometimes inappropriate, behavior.
Now, many businesses have downsized, or even eliminated their Human Resources departments, thanks to these internet based looking glasses. Background checks are a thing of the past when it is spilled out across the computer monitor for anyone to peruse.
A simple click of the mouse, and....... voila! Your life since your inception to the social media ranks is now displayed and recorded.
Hey, isn’t that Michael Phelps a taking a hit off a bong?
What was Jake ranting about the waitress last night?
What’s up with Ashley’s language?
What a better way to view your potential employees and even your current employees, simply by logging on to someone’s account and seeing and/or hearing what they have been doing with themselves lately.
So now, everyone is up in arms, claiming this is a violation of their privacy. Really?
They are so willing to post pictures, quotes and do so expeditiously via cell phones and computers. Everyone has to know what they are doing, right now and with whom.
Have you been to a 5 star restaurant only to sit next to the geek who will not leave his Robot Cyborg MyPhone 6 alone? Constantly texting and taking videos. Snapping pictures of him/herself and everyone around. Scanning the surroundings with the gadget as if they were Cecil B. DeMille
(okay, I’m dating myself). It’s as if everyone needs to know what they are doing, where they are at, who is there, etc.
But yet, if an employer looks at your social media page and deems that they are too “expressive” and choose not to hire them; it’s a violation of their privacy.
They say your private life is just that, private. You shouldn’t judge on what they do in their personal life.
Well, if you choose to post yourself taking a hit from a “bong”, I don’t think you are going to pass the drug screening.
Posting yourself projectile vomiting at the local underground battle of the bands probably means you might not make it to work the next day.
Showing you and your buddies reenacting the last “Jackass” movie will definitely get thumbs down from the medical insurance carrier.
I know everyone is entitled to their opinions and maybe have a bad day or two. But every day, using obscenities in every other sentence, to get your point across?
Recently, a friend and her co-workers discovered several “home” movies, featuring a fellow employee, under a “stage” name, wearing nothing but a thong on YouTube. She was gyrating in different locations, including next to a busy highway. Her motions and hand positions were reminiscent of a fan dancer (so I’ve heard, ahem). She was fired about two weeks later because of her “attendance” record.
Police officers have been suspended, even fired for extolling their exploits during their work shift. The credibility in the court room during testimony has been rebuked based on their social media input.
Somehow, after viewing your life, displayed for the masses, BY YOU, doesn’t instill faith in your future with an establishment. So, was that party last month worth it?
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