Alan: the difference is this. If you have a private FB profile and you grant someone access to it, they now can access the private profiles of your friends as well. So it isn't merely your privacy at risk, it's theirs too.
This also opens up the possibility of being rejected for employment based on the hiring person's personal opinions. Example: what if the HR person doesn't like your favorite sports team, choice of music, or whatever else? What if you are involved with a cause of some kind that the HR person opposes? None of that has anything to do with a person's qualifications for a job.
Miss Cellania: some FB users such as myself keep their profile page completely private and only allow approved friends to access it. Someone could see that I have a FB page, but all they'd see is my name and possibly a profile pic. Speaking for myself, I'm not hiding or embarrassed by anything, I choose to only allow real people who I know in my real life to view it. I don't post anything there that I wouldn't want these people to see. However, when it comes to allowing some unknown HR person to snoop around on my profile for the purpose of "vetting" me, uh, no way. They will have to "vet" me the old-fashioned way: by meeting with me, speaking to me and deciding via their assessment skills whether I am a fit for the job they are offering, not by making snap judgments about me via something that has nothing to do with my professional life at all.
No. When I accept a job it's about agreeing to perform specific duties at a specific time for a specific amount of compensation. That is all. My private life, my interests and my friendships have nothing whatsoever to do with my employer or their business. My life is not going to center entirely around my employer's corporate philosophy. Employers have no business noodling around in people's personal lives, only in their professional lives when they're on the company clock.
Self-appointed vigilantes are often just as annoying as their targets. Expecting "peace & quiet" on public transportation is a bit impractical. Go buy a car.
This is simply the result of living in a nation where no one cares about anything other than revenue and profits. It's a thinly-disguised way to force children to pay for their meals, thus generating more revenue, under the guise of "proper nutrition". 90% of school food is garbage that'd be rejected by the scuzziest of chain restaurants, cardboard scraps are more "nutritious" than that crap. People like to pretend things like this are some sort of "lib vs. conservative"-based issue but that's not it at all, it's all about wringing as much cash as possible out of the students. Nothing will ever change in this country until we realize that making a profit is not always the most important aspect of everything.
My father worked for the sanitation department for many years. He used to joke about how he wanted a "21-horn" salute when he died. At his funeral, a few of his former co-workers (and 3 trucks) made it happen and although quite a few people had no idea what was happening, those who knew him best were very much touched and amused by the gesture.
Another bag of hot air getting himself all worked up into a hateful froth over something that affects him barely, if at all. He's one of those people who hears or reads a fragment of something and extrapolates that fragment of an idea into a full-blown platform of uniformed idiocy.
Hilarious how he got shown up; I wonder if he'll refuse his next "farm subsidy" handout to prove his point? Somehow, I doubt it.
#2- spot on. I worked for an "entrepreneur" who, despite being $250 million in the hole and mere days away from bankruptcy, was still skipping along telling anyone who'd listen that everything was going to turn out GREAT tomorrow!
The comment above is spot-on. People will become all indignant and outraged simply because they hear "marijuana" yet see nothing wrong with dosing kids with potent pharmaceuticals because a doctor says it's OK.
Hilarious how he got shown up; I wonder if he'll refuse his next "farm subsidy" handout to prove his point? Somehow, I doubt it.