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Ask Slashdot: Companies That Force Employees To Join Social Networks?
First time accepted submitter rubeon writes "Companies can get a lot of mileage out of social networking services from the likes of Google or Facebook. Chat, document collaboration, and video conferencing using services like Google+ Hangouts or Facebook's Skype are seductive additions to an IT arsenal. But a lot of people have privacy concerns about these services, and there's no shortage of horror stories how these sites track and exploit their users' habits. Would you work for a company that forced its employees to join a social network?"
no problem, as soon as I get a pay scale raise for it. And a significant one.
otherwise, nope. and if you try to fire me, my lawyer will gladly take the case as it will be highly profitable for him. He likes high profile cases where he can get his buddy at the NBC station to cover it on the news, I usually give him 80% of the judgement so he likes to shoot for the moon on damages and litigation.
Oh you also have one more option. I'll leave now silently for $4.5 million plus taxes on it as a golden parachute, I'll promise to keep my mouth shut.
That covers the bases well. They either drop it, give the raise, or gladly pay off a troublemaker to make him go away before he tells others how he stood up for himself.
Most of the time they drop it because it was some retard MBA in his 20's that though it up.
Honestly, people need to spread the word on these craptastic companies doing this stuff so the rest of us know to avoid them.
but then I'm one of those shitty employees that also shuts off his phone the second he leaves the building and refuses to turn it back on again until the next work day or demand on call pay. I also leave at the end of the work shift time and refuse to work overtime unless asked to do so, that way I have documentation so the scumbags cant try and stiff me.
you know, someone with a backbone. it works well. I last years at every job until I get bored and then I place a call to a headhunter or two telling them I am on the market again and have offers of more pay and better positions within weeks.
If more people stood up for themselves and understood that THEY are doing the company a favor by bringing their Expert skills to work every day, there would be fewer scumbag companies out there.