Message from @Scribblehatch
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its roots are very much swamped in free speech... one of the earliest adopters was stephen fry
Sargon’s new vid “The Social Parliament”
@wacka correct
it sort of became a way for plebs to interact with celebs
@wacka when i worked at nbc one of the producers asked me about twitter and news , i told them news comes out on twitter before you guys even report it by the time you report it its old , they told me ...at that time we have to verify the story before we publish it ...now today you think they do that ? HELL NO
I guess we've gone from an age where getting the story out "first" really meant getting as many viewers - this meant prime time tv (so not necessarily first to break the story) but now prime time is instant updates on peoples phones
You know i was never into politics or news ....i was into video games , magic the gathering, tech stuff computers.... then they started Poisoning it ... and i had no choice but to see politics ...
Disclaimer: The Babylon Bee is a satirical site
In this I heard that there's many employers now who check social media before hiring anyone. And if you have no facebook at all, then bam. You're not out of the runnings entirely.
What sort of pathetic culture is this now.
People with the most sense, are punished the most.
I can imagine the argument "Well if you weren't gonna be hired for that reason it's probably a pretty miserable workplace"
The hiring process is ALWAYS stupid.
No one ever knows what they're really in for. Everyone pretends they can filter well enough to get the perfect candidates and all it does is make expert liars out of everyone.
interesting that the new muslim congress woman ran completely unopposed, no republican opponent
What is the purpose of conveniences like cell phones or social media if you become expected to have them to make a living?
They're not convenient anymore, they're COMPULSORY.
All of this technology that we're supposedly spoiled with, we're OUTCAST for not having.
People just want the best, and that goes on to assume that THE BEST employee has a facebook and cell phone.
oh shes the daughter of palistinian immigrants... thats going to be interesting, given some of trumps moves in israel
Yeah, the whole "check their social media" thing has gotten out of hand
I know it started as "We want to make sure that they aren't doing stupid shit in the background", but the requirement of having social media to get a job is ridiculous
Any gift to humanity becomes a curse as soon as employers get to snoop on it.
Adam Carolla on one of the Joe Rogan podcasts, he brought up a story where he was talking to an employer at a dinner table in the middle of the night
He had a question for the employer, and the employer CALLED AN EMPLOYEE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT to get an answer.
Well for fuck sake, wasn't that trespassing on the guy's free time?
What is this shit?
At my last job, the VP of the software department straight up told us to our faces that if there was an issue in the middle of the night, he wanted to be able to call us to fix it
Off-time is off-time, how did this indentured servitude get such a long reach.
I can understand if lives are on the line in the medical profession.
In my current job, not only are we not expected to come in at all hours of the day to fix shit, we get overtime
government contracts are great
I dunno what that means.
The company I work for is a Department of Defense contractor, so they're required to pay all employees overtime, whether we're in salaried positions or not
Last week I worked 50.4 hours, and I'll be paid for 50.4 hours
I've been unemployed for years now.
Drives me nuts.