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I had to get a background check for my job; the report is a 300 page pdf

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Post by coldtea »

unlinked_dll wrote: post #148
coldtea wrote: post #110

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> "Bad opinions" is a pretty remarkable simplification of the concept of someone that doesn't think you're fully human based on the color of your skin or your sexuality. And "someone that doesn't think you're fully human based on the color of your skin or your sexuality" is a pretty remarkable simplification of the concept that someone might have religious, moral, philosophical, practical, political, or other conside…

Most bigots don't realize they're bigots. But ostracizing them from professional society exasperates the victim complex inherent to bigotry.

>Most bigots don't realize they're bigots

Yes. In that regard they are exactly alike most holier than thou types!

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Post by acdha »

BurningFrog wrote: post #115
dudul wrote: post #81

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I've also laughed at companies trying to pull this thing, but I also realize that this is a huge privilege. There is really only in tech that the tables are somewhat flipped, and applicants can afford to give HR bullies the middle finger.

The US has record low unemployment. There are many fields outside tech where workers can be picky about jobs.

Those numbers aren’t really telling you the full story: unemployment is relatively low but pay scales have lagged far behind — someone whose corporation gets rid of them after they turn 50[1] and ends up working as an Uber driver is technically still employed but in reality they have very limited ability to negotiate pay or working conditions.

1. I was recently talking with an older relative who had multiple friends experience things like being reassigned to offices which required much longer commutes when they were starting to approach retirement age, despite no change in their work or at the business at the location they’d worked for the previous 2-3 decades. Said relative was very happy to have a union which prevents abuse like that.

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Post by matz1 »

arpa wrote: post #106
matz1 wrote: post #70

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Having no online presence can also be viewed suspicious. Pick your poison.

Ah! He doesn't eat meat! Suspicious, suspiciuos. Perhaps a communist, or a homosexual?

He very well maybe， the point is whatever you do there will be trade off.

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Post by guntars »

n4r9 wrote: post #141
sneak wrote: post #104

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As long as there are other places to work, we can and should avail ourselves of them.

It's fine and dandy for people in tech but if you're a single parent with a narrow set of skills who's struggling and been applying for jobs for over a month then you're going to take the offer. And then you're not going to have much time to continue job searching.

Who’s responsible for you being a single parent with limited skills? The corporation?

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Post by astura »

wolco wrote: post #140

Maybe I'm not understanding. How would the company know the twitter account? Could you give them someone elses twitter account? Why did author give twitter account and get surprised when they have a report based on it?

My guess is they have an agreement with twitter where they provide the email address and twitter will tell you the account id. They would have the candidate's email address from their job application.

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Post by falcolas »

guntars wrote: post #164
n4r9 wrote: post #141

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It's fine and dandy for people in tech but if you're a single parent with a narrow set of skills who's struggling and been applying for jobs for over a month then you're going to take the offer. And then you're not going to have much time to continue job searching.

Who’s responsible for you being a single parent with limited skills? The corporation?

They made a bad decision in the heat of passion, and didn't have a safety net to let them stand back up?

Fuck'em. Who wants those kinds of people in our society?

To be slightly less angry and sarcastic - such a person has typically fallen through the cracks, and is vulnerable to being shoved into a "hold multiple jobs so you can afford your basic needs" position.

Yes, we should be protecting these kinds of people. Having to work more than 40 hours a week to meet your basic needs is barbaric; it reflects poorly on us as a society.

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Post by grecy »

guntars wrote: post #164
n4r9 wrote: post #141

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It's fine and dandy for people in tech but if you're a single parent with a narrow set of skills who's struggling and been applying for jobs for over a month then you're going to take the offer. And then you're not going to have much time to continue job searching.

Who’s responsible for you being a single parent with limited skills? The corporation?

The better questions is do you want to help your neighbours and people in your community who are in such a situation, or do you just say "It's your problem" and turn a blind eye.

What kind of world do you want to live in?

Keep in mind you're only one serious medial disaster (massive car crash, cancer, etc.) away from bankruptcy, so it would be extremely quick for the tables to turn.

Do some reading into people who were steadfastly against universal healthcare until they had a major medical emergency in their family. It's funny how people need a very personal experience of being on the s--t end of the stick before they want to change how the stick works.

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Post by yowlingcat »

vntok wrote: post #99
allovernow wrote: post #51

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They're definitely using some form of sentiment analysis, but IMO these are exactly the kind of results you'd get after setting a programmer, with little to no actual data science background, loose to train his nets on data with a limited or absent intuitive understanding of bias from training data. And what's worse is that in their business false flags probably aren't even considered. It's an extra wide supercharged…

"BIG DICK ENERGY" is arguably a childish and immature post. Someone liking that post is arguably being childish and immature in their minds at that time . Of course, a single like of a childish or immature post or meme is a meaningless data point (one could like it to laugh at it). So are 5 likes. So are 10 likes. However, say that twitter account regulary likes memes that are only shared in a particular incels-commu…

This is a toddler level correlation/causation conflation and misunderstanding of psychological motivations and a thorough lack of understanding of humor. To assign so much meaning to a like is to presume to understand its meaning. But what if the like itself is ironic, sarcastic, or merely a bookmark? This kind of literalist interpretation is laughable, and will surely be looked upon in the future as a cringe-worthy kind of scientism that bloodletting and "alignment of the four humors" is now.
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