Beware Your Online Presence

Mz6 wrote to mention an article in the NY Daily News stating that an increasing number of employers are Googling their prospective employees during the interview/hiring process. From the article: "'A friend of mine posted a picture of me on My Space with my eyes half closed and a caption that suggests I've smoked something illegal,' says Kluttz. While the caption was a joke, Kluttz now wonders whether the past two employers she interviewed with thought it was so funny. Both expressed interest in hiring Kluttz, but at the 11th hour went with someone else."

Comments

In this case here is a more interesting question

[roman_mir]

would you hire someone, who you know uses drugs?

• Alcohol Y/N
• Amphetamines Y/N
• Cannabis Y/N
• Cocaine Y/N
• Ecstasy Y/N
• Hallucinogens Y/N
• Heroin Y/N
• Inhalants Y/N
• Party drugs Y/N
• Pharmaceuticals Y/N
• Steroids Y/N

really, I wouldn't hire anyone, who I knew used drugs.
I am currently working with someone who is a total pothead, and it is terrible. The guys is completely useless. I am not saying that anyone who smokes weed is completely useless, but I would rather get someone clean anytime than deal with this problem.

Re:Maybe it's just the name.

[heinousjay]

I can almost see the twisted smile on the face of the person modding these terrible jokes up, satisfied in the knowledge that they've stabbed Redmondward for the day.

Re:Everyone.

[schematix]

Are you the same Scott Swindells that did some work for distributed.net back in 2000? If so, your strategy isn't working.

Scott who? This could either be a chance to confirm my identity, confuse the situation further or throw people off my trail forever.... muahahaha. I'll leave that up to the reader to decide.

Re:No wonder everyone is pissed off all the time..

[Eli Gottlieb]

You are, of course, right, but SSSSHHH! Don't let the libertarians hear you or they'll tear you to bits like zombies!

Re:Interesting past, future problems...

[patio11]

OK, its unlikely to go away if you keep it around as an interesting cocktail conversation stuffer (I was once called a vampire in court!) and throw out an open challenge to Slashdot to find it. But, be that as it may, if you're OK with it I guess I'll steal the free karma for looking it up (and, yep, all I did was a whois followed by a couple of Google searches. You'll be happy to know that your name is reasonably clean, even when added to vampire, but only one Charles Perkins has ever showed up in News of the Odd. Watch those minor corraborative details, they're killers!).