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        <title><![CDATA[But But But]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-311632-3126082]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Altered states is altered states. I worked with a person who passed every drug test in the books because they were taking only prescribed meds. They were still a liability. Things worked out and they retired and no one got hurt. BUT the potential was certainly there. The drug screen just means that a person can clean up long enough to get hired. We should make it easier to discharge unsuitable people and not attach such a stigma to it.What the heck? If I quit a company because they dont pay on time or treat their employees like idiots no one blames the company but they should.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[gmwwc@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:13:34 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: City wants job applicants to turn over Facebook user names and passwords]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-311632-3121001]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Rather scary thought.  Do we hand over our internet bank account logins too?  I applied for a CIO position at a certain unnamed City Council.  Part of their pre screening was sexual health questions!!!  I started to wonder how close a team they were and what they were into !  Strangely enough when I declined the job they were most put-out.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[simon@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:14:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Just Consent to 24/7 wiretapping of your phones and accounts]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Consent to 24/7 wiretapping of your phones, you routine servant to the ultraclass. You shouldn't really be trusted. I mean, who knows? You could be a 'turorist' scheming in BFE, er, Montana (go ahead, just try and say the word 'nukulah').Then turn over the keys to your mobile phone, home phone, bank accounts, genetic background, sexual and polical beliefs and consent to 24/7 videorecording and geotracking of you, family and friends.  Welcome to Stasi-USA, the state of perpetual safety as ordered by those who know best what is good for you.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[smartaffair@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 09:13:39 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[EXACTLY!]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Ya, like I said, if having certain things on your social network profiles means you can't get the job, then no one will be able to get the job.So if two people both have stuff on their profile they would have to use skills and qualifications as a deciding factor anyways!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MPG187]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:35:50 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[*snickers*  EOM]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bad Boys Drive Audi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:48:28 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hire people based on actual ability?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What an amazing concept!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[NickNielsen]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:04:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Current Employees]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I bet if they looked at 5 applicants and compared what they had to hide to their 5 best employees they would have similar things that they hidden too.It would just get to the point that they would not be able to find anyone and they would not be able to use SN sites to determine who to hire, so to break the tie they would have to go back to skills, education, and previous work experience...]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MPG187]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:37:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I disagree...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[While I still think I'd say something short of &quot;kiss my @$$&quot;, I disagree that everyone should violate the TOS and create multiple accounts. Perhaps I'm just partial to a single account because I simply don't have the time (or the desire) to manage multiple accounts on a single SN site.I believe what happened here is how the market should behave: an employer put out a wildly inappropriate request and the market responded unfavorably...unfavorably enough that it caused them to retract the request. This doesn't speak about the intelligence level of those who thought this was an appropriate request; it just shows that the market is working as expected when something as silly as this surfaces.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Bad Boys Drive Audi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:50:43 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I wouldn't answer it at all]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Actually, I wouldn't even as much as put &quot;None&quot; in the space; I would have left it blank. If they then ask why I left it blank, I would have (politely) replied: &quot;Those kinds of questions totally are totally inappropriate to ask and applicant.&quot;I probably wouldn't get the job; But why would you want to work for A-holes like that anyway?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Yam Digger]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:11:51 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[easier to just ask them if they know what a rimjob is and tell]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[them to get to it.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Deadly Ernest]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:31:33 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[RE: City wants job applicants to turn over Facebook user names and passwords]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-311632-3112832]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[I like bratwizard's reply. This may show why and that some people should have two accounts on each site. One with no way to trace back to them and another for all to see.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[spencercountyman]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:14:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Clock watchers are the bane of all.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Many moons ago, I one day received a call from HR that the employees currently reporting to me (I moved from dept. to dept. acting as a troubleshooter/firefighter/expediter/etc.) were taking too long for lunch, as evidenced by the building's sign-in/out logs.In response, I asked if HR had any records re. the number of times that these people had skipped their morning and/or afternoon breaks, or of the number of lunches which consisted of no more than a sandwich &amp; beverage from the in-house vending machines, consumed at their desks while they worked, or of the number of times that they had skipped lunch entirely, or of the number of hours spent voluntarily working OT, without extra pay, all so that the work got done.Of course, HR had no such data.I then told HR that these people weren't being paid to be in their when the clock said so, but when the work demanded it; and, that if and when they were being paid according to what they actually, accomplished, I'd be happy to see to it that they always stopped working promptly at the beginning of the scheduled breaks and lunch, with them returning precisely when the clock said that they were due back at their desks, and that they would always quit at the scheduled end-of-day, regardless of whether or not there was work that needed to be completed that day.That was the last I heard from HR.You don't pay a man for what he eats, but for what he shits.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:27:07 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Please tell me Steven]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[that you do NOT allow the use of personal devices in the work place?  A huge security &quot;no no&quot;.And I was not defending FB, just the idea of many managers that chases away their best, more efficient talent.The same is true for clock watchers.  If it is important that I punch IN &quot;on time&quot;, then it is equally important that I punch OUT &quot;on time&quot;, right?  Hardly a beneficial attitude for anyone, is it?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[jdclyde]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:48:31 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Use vs. Abuse]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[There is a difference between using a abusing. I don't think a person who abuses food could be a good worker. WE HAVE TO MAKE FOOD ILLEGAL because a few people become obese or diabetic!]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MPG187]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:57:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Propogangda]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[It is illegal because it was associated with Mexicans who at the the Americans hated. Making it illegal was the fasted way to get them deported.It was also associated with Black Jazz Musicians who the guy who made it illegal hated.Also hemp was cheaper than timber for paper so they passed propoganda that made it illegal.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[MPG187]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:48:57 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Concessions to civilian conventions are oft times useful.]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Sometimes necessary.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:16:40 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Titivate, my man]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Titivate.Do you forget your military bearing?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[santeewelding]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:09:56 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Just tidying up.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:00:59 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[We've all been badly informed.]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-311632-3105623]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Misinformed, ill informed, or simply uninformed.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[deepsand]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:58:13 -0700</pubDate>
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        <description><![CDATA[Who, me?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[boxfiddler]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:47:18 -0700</pubDate>
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