Yep you want a job in Bozeman, Montana? If so have you’re social networking account usernames and passwords handy.
City requires Facebook passwords from job applicants
As part of routine background checks, the city asks job applicants to provide their usernames and passwords for their social-networking sites. And it has been doing it for years, city officials said.
“Please list any and all, current personal or business Web sites, Web pages or memberships on any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc.,” states a city waiver form applicants are asked to sign. Three lines are provided for applicants to list log-in information for each site.
Now, I have no intention of applying for a job in Bozeman, Montana but if I did I can assure you I’d never tell them any password to any site I was a member of and I’d just say I’m not a member of any social networking sites so there is nothing to give you.
Really, all I can say is WOW! Talk about invasion of privacy and being a control freak… Bozeman City Hall wins the Big Brother Award of the month, maybe the year.
City Attorney Greg Sullivan said in light of concerns being expressed by the public, officials are looking at ways to alter the policy so that they might view an applicant’s online information without asking for log-in codes.
You know what? What I do online – on my time – that doesn’t break any laws is none of anyones damn business but my own and it’s definitely not a potential employers business. This is want happens went there are a lot more people wanting jobs than there are jobs available, employers over step there bounds and take advantage of people, but if you say no you can’t have my log-in information so idiot out there will say yes… so simple thing is don’t let them know you have it in the first place.
Internet? What’s that? Never heard if it.
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