"Rip" <fake@fake.com> wrote in message news:Jcvmj.536$0o7.181@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net... > > "Bruce Remick" <remick@cox.net> wrote in message > news:w0mmj.25724$3b7.25458@newsfe23.lga... >> >> "Liz_in_Calgary" <misnomer@shaw.ca> wrote in message >> news:r8pjp3teofdc88drk8vuri0bj0re0nop35@4ax.com... >>> lol... usenet isn't that important. >> >> Maybe not ten years ago, but today, if you're a person interviewing for a >> new job................ > > Couldn't let this one go! What could you possible say to a prospective > employer about usernet that would get you a job? It's not what you would say to a prospective employer, but what that potential employer's Google search of your past newsgroup/Usenet posts could reveal about YOU. Many employers apparently do that now, and for certain some applicants are turned down because of a public trail left behind that came back to bite them. Harder to maintain two separate personalities-- internet and real world-- anymore. You've got to be accountable for both. Bruce

On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:46:09 -0500, Bruce Remick wrote: > > It's not what you would say to a prospective employer, but what that > potential employer's Google search of your past newsgroup/Usenet posts could > reveal about YOU. Many employers apparently do that now, and for certain > some applicants are turned down because of a public trail left behind that > came back to bite them. > Bruce Please provide proof. I personally thnk thats a load of bollocks or at the very least an urban myth. May be just a US thing. -- Terry

"Terry" <Terry234@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:lnn9o3fsx4ge.1rtjy5yoqlf8a$.dlg@40tude.net... > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:46:09 -0500, Bruce Remick wrote: > >> >> It's not what you would say to a prospective employer, but what that >> potential employer's Google search of your past newsgroup/Usenet posts >> could >> reveal about YOU. Many employers apparently do that now, and for >> certain >> some applicants are turned down because of a public trail left behind >> that >> came back to bite them. >> Bruce > > Please provide proof. I personally thnk thats a load of bollocks or at > the > very least an urban myth. May be just a US thing. > > -- > Terry I hope you're better at genealogical deduction. You think it's bollocks and at least an urban myth, but you will accept proof to the contrary. And of course, since you're apparently not in the US, you'll also accept that it well may be the case here, but you don't really know. Have you ever posted any comments in a newsgroup that you'd be at all embarrassed about? You don't rate any proof, IMO. Ignore all I said.

To: Terry > Please provide proof. I personally thnk thats a load of bollocks or at the > very least an urban myth. May be just a US thing. It's part of a standard employment screening now.. and if you are a police officer or a public official they do it often while you are employed. Look at the Lexington KY POlice officers who arrested the Country Music Star John Michael Montgomery... they were all disciplined or fired for posting information about the arrest on their blogs and myspace. One of them even commented about how the "whiny rich Lexington Kentucky residents" treat their police officers. Things can come back to haunt you bigtime. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- The Derby City BBS -= Allen Prunty =- telnet://derbycitybbs.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Where Friends Gather --- Synchronet 3.15a-Win32 NewsLink 1.85 * Derby City Online - Louisville, KY - telnet://derbycitybbs.com

On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 02:44:40 -0500, Allen Prunty wrote: > It's part of a standard employment screening now.. and if you are a police > officer or a public official they do it often while you are employed. Look at > the Lexington KY POlice officers who arrested the Country Music Star John > Michael Montgomery... they were all disciplined or fired for posting > information about the arrest on their blogs and myspace. One of them even > commented about how the "whiny rich Lexington Kentucky residents" treat their > police officers. > Like I said - a US thing. It is certainly not part of a standard employment screening where I live. I believe polie officers in US also hold down other jobe - a strict no-no in UK. -- Terry

Terry <Terry234@hotmail.com> wrote in news:lnn9o3fsx4ge.1rtjy5yoqlf8a$.dlg@40tude.net: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:46:09 -0500, Bruce Remick wrote: > >> >> It's not what you would say to a prospective employer, but >> what that potential employer's Google search of your past >> newsgroup/Usenet posts could reveal about YOU. Many >> employers apparently do that now, and for certain some >> applicants are turned down because of a public trail left >> behind that came back to bite them. >> Bruce > > Please provide proof. I personally thnk thats a load of > bollocks or at the very least an urban myth. May be just a US > thing. Might be just a US thing, but it has happened. I know someone from another group that was passed over for a job once the prospective employer read his contributions to a flame war. I also know a blogger who was passed over because the company didn't approve of his views as expressed in his blog. -- }:-) Christopher Jahn {:-( http://soflatheatre.blogspot.com/ "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge