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- Junkyarddawg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+62Anyone who googles me will find out that I'm church-going, a former professional ice-hockey player, and does volunteer work for a charity working with underprivileged inner-city kids. None of which is true.
- NickDouglas, on 10/12/2007, -10/+64Those of us who write somewhere other than Digg.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+50As an employer, I don't give a flying *****, if you'll pardon my language, what someone has done in their past, so long as whatever it was does not affect my opinion of their accountability and reliability. Who cares about keggers? Who cares about blunts? People grow up, and even if they still do keggers and blunts, so long as they get their job done, done well, and done on time, their personal lives, past, present and future are none of my goddamn business.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+40Maybe the real key is to not be the keg-standing frat boy applying to a company that doesn't want to hire keg-standing frat boys. I'm not going to apply to a company that doesn't want to hire Asimov-reading uber-nerds. Trust me you'd rather be at the company that fits your personality anyway.
- ZachSka87, on 10/12/2007, -0/+33I am apparently a former champion of the special olympics.
- Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+32The real key is to have a commonplace name or a name that's the same as somebody famous. Googling my name or any variation thereof will not find me anywhere in the first 100 results. Too many other famous people have shared it in the past.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I could never pump gas the way you wanted anyway. My loss, I suppose. :-(
- spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24I. You are a self-righteous *****
- Aeiri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23Well, your top 4 diggs right now (which shows up on Google) don't exactly help you out.
1. Nude French Made
Nice sexy Online Game. The purpose is to stimulate the orgasm in this pritty Maid who is longing to be licked, tickled and touched!
2. Proposal to Erect XXX Domain Faces Stiff Opposition
3. How to look good when your recruiter googles you
4. Geek Chicks are the hottest! NASA engineer is also Texans Cheerleader. - adidos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22"She saw the photo with the sorority girl with -- is that a tattoo or a third nipple? -..."
Photo or it didn't happen... - spyrochaete, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21I'm a university sports star and a big CPU time contributor to SETI@Home, only one of which is true.
- StephanieBamBam, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19"I cross referenced their MySpace with their YouTube..."
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20Limiting your applicant pool like that must great for business. I hope you're joking, otherwise investors beware.
- jiminoc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17As a person in charge of hiring developers I can attest to bad google searches. We've turned a few people down for some things we were able to connect including racist rants, religious conversion tactics on former employees, etc.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16My sudo life involves me sitting in front a glowing screen typing passwords over and over.
- sensor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15I hate this tactic of googling potential employees. For example ... there's someone who has the same name as me in the same University... and he's from the same town I was from... if someone would google me all he would get is his homepage + some information about him. There would be no way to tell us apart. FFS.
- Sparkster185, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17People like you are the reason our country is ***** up.
- khafra, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14@quantumhobbit: One of these... has a future.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Recruiter: "Mr John Doe? According to our research, you've been killed 6000 times, and committed 400 rapes, 900 murders, and a molestation of a horse... Care to explain yourself?"
mearn: "Uhm... That's my Google Twin Army! Not me!" - Krypto01, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15I was a philanthropist in the 1800's and now have a Nature Preserve named after me in upstate New York. I'm was also a state representative of Connecticut, a Judge in New Hampshire, an Olympic record holder in several Equestrian events and was born and died in the past 10 years.
I hope I get the job. - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Or, you're interested in taking credit for your contributions and work, which builds your reputation. Recruiters/potential employers google me, they find my website (which needs work, but as I'm currently twice-employed, not worried, nor do I have time for it), my resume if I choose to expose it, and over ten years of me showing up in various technical/professional locations on the net, NOT making an ass out of myself.
- evilunleashed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12It makes it so much easier when bigots come out and tell you they are such. Then you know who to block without having to hear them spread their drivel.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12@ bgbs
+120 Experience from inciting mass hatred on Digg.
You have leveled up and are now a level 12 Toll.
Unfortunately in the battle you have been blocked by everyone who read your posts. - VcTrMASO, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Is your name George W Bush? I just goggled it and from what I found, I don't want to work for you.
- Hockey37, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Find any aliens yet?
- Me1on, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"The real key is to have a commonplace name or a name that's the same as somebody famous. Googling my name or any variation thereof will not find me anywhere in the first 100 results. Too many other famous people have shared it in the past."
Michael....Bolton? - bemenaker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Companies writing off people for what they find on the internet is utterly retarded in the first place. They didn't do that before, and did it change anything? No, it's a BS perception that they think they are changing the kind of people they are hiring. Can you really believe what you find on the net anyways? I have an extremely rare last name, yet there are two people in the US with my name. We both work in computers, how can you tell what is him, and what is me, you can't.
Use some common sense about what you post and where, but past that, fuhq them. I am allowed to have a life, and you have a problem with that, I'll go work elsewhere, where I will be happier in the long run to begin with. - Sneakernets, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15Googling someone to see if they're hiring material is absolutely asinine.
- quantumHobbit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9According to Craigslist, the Russian's will blow up Hildog's snatch.
- Tyseyh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Oh great... if i Google me i get "why don't you fu** off you....." thats not going to look too good for me.
- lpcustom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I wouldn't want to work for anyone that looks at myspace.com...they obviously have no taste!
- tzmguitarist, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8surely you jest.
- baalzebub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7i googled my full name and there was no hits, i am unknown as far as google's search goes :)
haha... - PDelahanty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9You should. Then make it professional looking and post crap about how you just got praise from your boss for working late or got some company award for some other stupid thing. ...but make it sound like you're praised all the time. However, don't make it seem like you're bragging...just slip it in here and there. Oh, and name drop. :)
- Mearn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11It's not very easy to Google my name, extremely common full names FTW
- mrblack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That maybe true, but they do. After putting my cv up on monster the amount of times my name was googled rocketed. Its one of the first things they do, especially in the IT field.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Googling my name brings up a bunch of references to an author with my same name, and a few references that are actually to me, but only positive things that I've done... Who puts their full real name on their MySpace page? Why would you discuss illegal activities and then use your real name on the internet?
- puffinkiss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Going through that much trouble to improve your image online is *****. For more info, refer to this xkcd strip: http://www.xkcd.com/c137.html
- sensor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4If they make a decision on something they googled and not what was said in the interview... I seriously don't want to work at a place like that.
- Klinky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5While jiminoc's company can deny employment to anyone they wish, making the reason public could be constructed as legal grounds for discrimination. While denying someone employment for being racist is probably a good thing, preventing someone based on their religious leanings could by grounds for discrimination under the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity laws. Proving it would be hard though. It's better to just say a person wasn't qualified. Anything negative could be taken as slander.
The internet in general is not really to be trusted all the time. I guess if you have obvious information such as the person's full name & birthday or a picture of them it'd be pretty hard for them to deny what is found. But as others have posted there is information out there under their name that is not their own. I'd hate to see someone get denied a job because a "Trent Smith" of the same name decided to create a homepage with lots of naked women on it & along with racist ramblings. - jftitan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Run with two lifestyles. One that is you, so when people look you up, then its a clean slate, and people can respect your online presence. Run the second life with a alternate name, or anagram your second name. People are smart, but people are also lazy. Smart ones don't like to dig on the basis, that said anagram nick just may not be you.
(Unless your a dumbass, and post photos of yourself in your sudo life) - ABadInAlbany, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3so from the sounds of things, you're not down with pot, but it's ok if you're a coke user? wow, you must really have some high quality, attentive-to-detail employees, who rarely make mistakes, and never steal from you to feed their nose candy habit. :rolleyes:
- pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If I google my name, all the hits in the first about 5 pages are me. They are mostly from a programming project I worked on a couple years ago, though, so I don't see it as a liability.
- Kerjo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Then you should be out there, putting _your_ best face forward. Make sure that when they search on your name, they find you.
- Wytefang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well, sadly he's violating several federal OFCCP regulations then. No genuine, professional recruiters that I know would EVER use Google for a background check. That's blatantly ridiculous. Methinks someone was having fun with you at your expense.
- ajchavar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6@ darkspire
i didn't know hiring the right person for the job was being discriminatory.. .
well, it is, but not in a negative way. . . - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Giraldus: very good point, and a point that I should have made in my initial post is that the only position for frat boys in my company is in sales. They seem to be really good at that. Someone should do some kind of study.
- fcekuahd, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4@kinky, the issue isn't really whether or not you like girls or pornography. To express those sentiments on an Internet web page that can be connected to you shows poor judgment at best. I would definitely disqualify you if I found a web site like this that could be connected to you.
- LesterWallace, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Tell me about it. My name is Tiger Woodsmansen.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah, but they already have a job. You don't.
So unless their myspace shows them ***** a goat... How does this help you? -
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