This is reposted from Twitter but apparently there's enough of a market for this service to exist and that's surprising to me.

I understand that employers want to screen new candidates but flagging every tweet that they so much as liked with a bad word in it? How is this service useful? Surely even religious figures aren't held to such a standard

This:

https://theguardian.com/technology/...

I'm glad devRant is anonymous 😆

Wait.. it is right?

Oh boi, have I been lied to all these years?

How is "BIG DICK ENERGY" sexist and bigoted? 🙄

Yep, totes ridiculous.

@magicMirror the world we live in keeps getting smaller by the day.

And shit like that is why I don't use social media with my real name.

If a company has a problem with me liking a Facebook post containing "dick" etc., I'm glad they did that research. That's not a company I'd want to work for, and they just saved me the hassle of finding out.

I consider this a feature. If future employers measure my programming and teamwork abilities by the amount of "bad" words I've typed, or by the amount of erotic tweets I liked, I'll be more than happy to not work for them. I am looking for a job, not religious advice.

@Root it's even more ridiculous when you know the content of that video. Gotta love blindly trusting automated filters.

A few years ago I saw the writing on the wall with these social platforms. Haven't had an account for years. At the time on Facebook I could specifically request my data be deleted. Not sure if it actually was though. So I went "dark" a long time ago.

Here's the thing: the company can either let me live the way I fucking want, or just look for the perfect shiny politically correct gender inclusive and whatever-other-adjective candidate

I wonder if the guy that hired the service was like "damn, this guy's like history is funny as hell" and started procastinating by reading these printed out posts.

probably not, must be some idiot with no balls, blood or sense of humor.

@AlmondSauce platinum tier logic, we should thankful, they are dodging the bullet for us

@TheItalianGuy And they will go with the second option. Usually because the people in charge of hiring (HR) are already these politically correct, diversity-before-everything, check-all-boxes-or-else, "progressive" freaking whackjobs. I have never seen an HR department that wasn't.

@Root Then they can suck my immensely diverse balls, their loss :P

@Root Our department isn't. It is one person and they always are straight with us. Honestly, I don't think they would last if they didn't considering how conservative my bosses are. I really like my workplace: no bullshit, if you need to swear you do (not in front of customers), and at our christmas party they drank and did mildly sexual themed games (this one surprised me). So yeah, not prudes, but not placating the PC world.

Yow this is crazy. This is messed up. Imma unlike and delete the retweet’s then. God damn!!

this is why I use an alias that's completely unjointed from my actual identity, as I can claim I don't have social media. (Technically true, I don't, Parzival Wolfram does! :)

@Parzi You just doomed yourself, right ? Though anyone who want to know about you will without that and there might be a lot with the same name, leaking it this way is not really clever

@CodeTalker i never said my real name.

@Parzi My bad, thought you did

@Demolishun Where do you work? Are they hiring? I'm tired of working for super lefty loonies.

@Root Sorry, I don't want to self disclose here. You really want to work in Idaho area? No dev jobs at my place at the moment. There are in Boise, but that is a semi liberal area.

@Demolishun Considering moving there, honestly.

Well, I guess that explains why so many jobs are unfilled by HR idiots. They’re wasting all their time eliminating otherwise acceptable employees because of this stupid cancel culture we have going on.