Welcome to my world!
Three-quarters of companies now do facebook checks on applicants. Once, life was not solely about accomplishments but also about potentials. Today, it is about indiscretions and what you do outside of 9-to-5. In a world where globalization has opened up new markets, careers and opportunities, we have ironically become a society that never let our pasts go.
Sorry if this post comes off as a rant, but I worry that, if this virtual scarlet letter trend continues, the next generation’s leaders will be today’s blandest, most boring people.
Related — a former blogger writes:
It’s not about being thin-skinned or scared or wimpy, it’s about a future employer or my mother-in-law Googling me and finding things that are completely untrue, but having no way of knowing so without asking me, by which time the bad impression is already made.
Fuck that.
More from my site
Two “Muslim headscarf victim” stories, one fake, one real- Naomi Klein probably thinks no one can see her picking her nose in the car, either
- Mark Steyn: ‘Kim Jong-Un has just vaporized a Hollywood blockbuster as totally as if one of his No Dong missiles had taken out the studio’
Gavin McInnes: ‘I realize a lot of the old codgers reading this are going, ‘What’s the matter with racism?’