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Originally Posted by Soulman
Genz,
there are definitely cultural differences at work here. In addition, you're studying law right? I think it's entirely fair to see this differently, given that.
I work in IT and Norwegians lol at hierarchy so I obviously don't care.
I'm not really worried about myself.
The whole Web 2.0 / social networking / posting pics on the internet thing is a topic that gets a lot of attention here right now, because quite some people start to feel the consequences of their actions. And sometimes I'm just baffled at how careless other people are and open themselves up to all kinds of attacks, libel, slander etc. Yeah, it's very well possible that my background makes me think more about what could go horribly wrong.
As a matter of fact, I know a few people who work in HR and they told me "of course we google people and look at pictures. And of course we discarded applications because of that. Everybody does it. LOL." I think it sucks ass. Everybody gets drunk sometimes. Older people had the luxury that they didn't get photographed every time they went out. Now they lower the hammer on younger people who do exactly the same stuff but have to endure that 6 billion people get the chance to see them do it.
And often HR people have little idea about your qualifications and just check your application for a given set of requirements before they pass it on to the people who actually know stuff about the job. So you don't even get a chance to show the company what awesome kind of guy you are if the HR dude doesn't like your facebook profile picture. That's why I meant it's too simplistic to say that the company can go **** itself when stuff like that happens.