Check this out for a laugh

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/06/18/politics/main5096450.shtml

If you're planning to apply for a job with the city of Bozeman, Montana, be prepared to hand over much more than your references and résumé.

The Rocky Mountain city instructs all job applicants to divulge their usernames and passwords for "any Internet-based chat rooms, social clubs or forums, to include, but not limited to: Facebook, Google, Yahoo, YouTube.com, MySpace, etc."

"Before we offer people employment in a public trust position we have a responsibility to do a thorough background check," Chuck Winn, Bozeman's assistant city manager, told CBSNews.com in an interview on Thursday. "This is just a component of a thorough background check."

yeah, get f***ed.

what infi said, f*** that

yeah, they're f***ed

heh, they'd be more than welcome to trawl through my email

im sure it would be enthralling for them to read all though all the s*** i send out and receive;

No job is worth that.

Considering all those services are free... couldn't you just create spoof accounts anyway?

What Heardy said, f*** that.

At that point ask for the interviewer's usernames and passwords - it's all part of researching your employer. Then sit back and watch the back-peddling and/or stammering about breaches of privacy and inappropriateness of your outrageous request.

^ exactly.

foad.

tell them you only have one login to chickswithdicks.com

Yep spoof accounts or deny any involvement with those sites.

that's a shame because otherwise the job sounds like gold

Considering all those services are free... couldn't you just create spoof accounts anyway?

spoof? a link for that one, i haven't heard of it.

^^hahahahahahahahaha

Surely that would be breaking some privacy act. But considering it is America then who the fuk knows.

who cares? sounds like you fagots dont want them to find your stashes of child pr0n

I have a mate who works for .gov.au and employees in his area are forbidden from having online profiles at all. Not sure if that applies to all gov employees or just ones in his area? I guess that's the way to handle this sort of thing more diplomatically.

I was forced to create a twitter account at the old place I worked at. Luckily we could do whatever we wanted with it. I just complained how s***ty work was every day.

yeh thats f***ed

i use my facebook to work out what happened on the weekend... the company doesnt need to know what i do on my weekends

Unless it's in your contract, they can't force you to not have an online profile, and even then if you don't mention your employer by name, i hardly see how they can do anything about it.

Yeh the friend I refered to just uses a pseudonym and still has Facebook.

it wasn't too far a stretch of the imagination to see that it was coming.

asking a forum user for his/her passwords is probably going to end up with this kind of applicant not bothering to apply. there's method in the madness