WTF Stories of the Week

[Ghoulish Delight]

Depending on how badly I want the job, I'd either say no, or I might say, "You can see what's visible to the public on my Facebook page." Beyond that, none of their damned business.

[Strangler Lewis]

The old lawyer's saying is never say anything to anyone you would not want to see repeated in court. Your Facebook page is just what you choose to expose to the world about yourself. If your prospective employer would be free to interview everyone you ever spoke to in order to ask them what stupid or potentially unprofessional thing you did, why shouldn't it get to go beyond your handpicked references to a reliable source like a Facebook page. Whether it's legal or appropriate for companies to make decisions based on how employees conduct their private lives is, of course, a separate question from wanting a reasonably accurate source of information.

[Alex]

There is another case recently of a court requiring a plaintiff to hand over their Facebook credentials to the defendent as part of discovery.

From the employer perspective I don't know that I see a big issue with it legally other than I would simply refuse to work for a company that required it, just as I'd refuse to work for a company that insisted on taking a tour of my house.

The discovery one I find interesting in that it presumably grants access to much more than just the information that is on point in the case, as well as functional abilities completely unrelated to discovery. I'm not sure why "defense counsel is required to hand over transcripts, with timestamps of all posts and comments made during period X" isn't sufficient.

[Moonliner]

Originally Posted by Alex

There is another case recently of a court requiring a plaintiff to hand over their Facebook credentials to the defendent as part of discovery.

Was this the domestic case where husband and wife both and to hand over their FB passwords to each other or did I miss something else?

[JWBear]

In which case, I would immediately have myself reported to Facebook for violating their TOS so that they could shut down my account.

[Morrigoon]

Originally Posted by JWBear

In which case, I would immediately have myself reported to Facebook for violating their TOS so that they could shut down my account.

You must spread some mojo around before....

[SzczerbiakManiac]

Unless most smart phone cameras come with high-powered telephoto lenses, this seems like a stupid idea to me.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

The little fella may have just been "playing possum", but I still think it's a funny pic.

In a followup, she said the possum was taken to a vet and is okay.

[SzczerbiakManiac]

NOT a job I'll be applying for!
work safe but not for the faint of heart
<looks for the yammy emoticon>

[SzczerbiakManiac]

18 month old ordered off plane
Why? She was on a no fly list.