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redwritinghood
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posted April 03, 2006 06:19 AM
Sorry to keep posting about Myspace, but today a radio station reported that some companies' HR Directors can and are checking your profile on Myspace to determine whether they should consider you for employment.
Might wanna take off those crazy bong pictures and naughty phrases if you're in the running for a new gig! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Consider This
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posted April 03, 2006 06:28 AM
It's one thing to be dumb enough to smoke dope.
It's stupidity on another level (perhaps achieved only through the aforementioned smoking) to publish it on the Internet.
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posted April 03, 2006 07:19 AM
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Originally posted by Consider This:
It's one thing to be dumb enough to smoke dope.
It's stupidity on another level (perhaps achieved only through the aforementioned smoking) to publish it on the Internet.
It's really stupid if the workplace is a drug free one.
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Zeke
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posted April 03, 2006 07:42 AM
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Originally posted by AlterEgo:
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Originally posted by Consider This:
It's one thing to be dumb enough to smoke dope.
It's stupidity on another level (perhaps achieved only through the aforementioned smoking) to publish it on the Internet.
It's really stupid if the workplace is a drug free one.
No work place is a drug free one. Allowence of tobbacco use on break, and encouragement of the consumption of sugar and coffee, and you've got yourself a business made in America. And I don't think SNL would be as funny as it is without a few stoners in the mix to help with the writting and acting. That's just the way it is.
And the same goes for just about every popular musician who's not out there to sell a product to a teenager, is likely a user of some drug or another. I'm not saying they have to use to be original or sucessful, but it sure hasn't hurt the career of those who do it and are not ashamed to admit it to their fans or really anybody else. It's their lifestyle and it's really them exhibiting they're own form of culture to the rest of society. Every culture is tightly bound to the drugs that it consumes and suppresses. And that dietary makeup can be thought of as a kind of clothing that the people in it wear. If you don't like what they're 'wearing', you can either ask them to change, or find something better to complain about.
[ April 03, 2006, 07:44 AM: Message edited by: Zeke ]
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posted April 03, 2006 08:18 AM
Okay... I don't think the War on Drugs is a particularly good use of our tax dollars, but...
It's illegal.
I'm an American, and I obey the laws of this land, not the ones that I find convenient.
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posted April 03, 2006 09:14 AM
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Originally posted by BBMD Mockingbird:
Okay... I don't think the War on Drugs is a particularly good use of our tax dollars, but...
It's illegal.
I'm an American, and I obey the laws of this land, not the ones that I find convenient.
Then change your name to "sheep" or "lemming." Don't follow the herd they may be lost or stumbling into a crevasse.
Everybody breaks the laws they find inconvenient; you've never gone a few miles over the speed limit when late for work?
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posted April 03, 2006 09:22 AM
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Originally posted by BBMD Mockingbird:
Okay... I don't think the War on Drugs is a particularly good use of our tax dollars, but...
It's illegal.
I'm an American, and I obey the laws of this land, not the ones that I find convenient.
What a bunch of malarkey!!
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posted April 03, 2006 06:49 PM
i was under the impression that people on myspace don't use their real names.
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posted April 03, 2006 08:32 PM
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Originally posted by Consider This:
It's one thing to be dumb enough to smoke dope.
This plant helps many people suffering the effects of medications and pain due to several illnesses.
This plant is no different than the glass of merlot you have as a night cap.
This plant, if given the chance, can help our economy.
This plant can let the coolness get into your vertabrae ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
Which many of you need!
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redwritinghood
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posted April 04, 2006 07:08 AM
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Originally posted by luckybastard:
i was under the impression that people on myspace don't use their real names.
Here's the interesting part I didn't know until the other day...if you do a search for a person's name under "find a friend", the search links to their original sign up name and they will come up under their screen name, so you still know who they are, even if they are using a screen name.
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Zeke
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posted April 04, 2006 07:27 AM
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Originally posted by luckybastard:
i was under the impression that people on myspace don't use their real names.
There is a difference between a real name, and a FULL name. My last name isn't anywhere on my profile, and there are a lot of people out there named "Dave".
Here's another funny point:
First of all, the 'threat' to some people is that the HR department of either a current or perhaps future employer will be scowering Myspace in search of candid background information about said person. What's wrong with this idea? GETTING THE HR DEPARTMENT TO BE ABLE TO DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Take a look at Human Resources in any company and what do you find? A group of fluttery eyed women who's job is to laugh at your jokes, and tell you bad news in a way that makes you think you just heard some good news. They lose paperwork, they have the brain equivalent of that really dumb high school cheerleader you wanted to bang, and can do little but write e-mails on a computer.
Now you mean to tell me that a company is going to invest that much TIME into getting someone in their HR to get on the web and spend hours trying and trying to find the profile of a person who may not even have an account on Myspace in the first place? What kind of concern is this?
I love it when HR comes out every now and then and tells the company, "Stop getting on the internet, damn it! Big Brother is watching."
Big Brother, inside a company, comes at a pretty high premium. You want to filter your web activity and punish those for browsing non-company websites, you have two options: Block it completely (very simple solution, and why they don't choose it, I'll never know ![[Wink]](wink.gif) , or pay a few geeks a lot of money to monitor all internet traffic and websites viewed looking for policy violations. They'd end up finding them everywhere, and never stop finding them.
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posted April 04, 2006 07:38 AM
And?
Semantics is ALWAYS a great rebuttal.
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LunchPenalty
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posted April 04, 2006 07:47 AM
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Edit: By the way, do you know what it's called when a persons brain bleeds? It's called a brain hemorrhage, and its extremely deadly. If cannabis caused people to have a brain hemorrhage as a result of smoking it, we'd be facing a world wide epidemic of mass proportions....but, guess what. We're not.
Yup, I know what it's called. I read the study. Did you? Did you click on any of the links, or are you just dismissing the opinions of the world health community at large?
The reason we aren't facing a world wide epidemic is not because the science is wrong, it's because on the grand scale of things not that many people smoke pot. Sure, you and your buddies spark up in the parking lot of the Circle K every night. But you sure aren't in the majority.
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posted April 04, 2006 07:49 AM
If you haven't signed up for MY Space you should. Otherwise some other bozo can put in your name and create a crazy profile. I've seen this happen to several on air types and their My Space pages aren't exactly flattering... You've been warned.
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LunchPenalty
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posted April 04, 2006 07:52 AM
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Originally posted by Zeke:
You want a rebuttal?
Remember this thread?
And this one?
You rebut with threads you started that state your
own personal opinion?
Yeah...Zeke from Medialine is a much more convincing argument than reputable studies conducted by non-anonymous, highly educated and experienced physicians.
Roll another one my friend.
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posted April 04, 2006 08:10 AM
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Originally posted by LunchPenalty:
quote:
Originally posted by Zeke:
You want a rebuttal?
Remember this thread?
And this one?
You rebut with threads you started that state your
own personal opinion?
Yeah...Zeke from Medialine is a much more convincing argument than reputable studies conducted by non-anonymous, highly educated and experienced physicians.
Roll another one my friend.
You think I wrote the entire thread? A lot of other people posted in there, and regardless, you did ask for a reubuttal. Did you want it to be from someone other than me? Cause you get the best of both worlds if you actually take the time to read through it all, you slacker.
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redwritinghood
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posted April 04, 2006 08:11 AM
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Originally posted by Zeke:
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Originally posted by luckybastard:
i was under the impression that people on myspace don't use their real names.
There is a difference between a real name, and a FULL name. My last name isn't anywhere on my profile, and there are a lot of people out there named "Dave".
Here's another funny point:
First of all, the 'threat' to some people is that the HR department of either a current or perhaps future employer will be scowering Myspace in search of candid background information about said person. What's wrong with this idea? GETTING THE HR DEPARTMENT TO BE ABLE TO DO IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
Take a look at Human Resources in any company and what do you find? A group of fluttery eyed women who's job is to laugh at your jokes, and tell you bad news in a way that makes you think you just heard some good news. They lose paperwork, they have the brain equivalent of that really dumb high school cheerleader you wanted to bang, and can do little but write e-mails on a computer.
Now you mean to tell me that a company is going to invest that much TIME into getting someone in their HR to get on the web and spend hours trying and trying to find the profile of a person who may not even have an account on Myspace in the first place? What kind of concern is this?
I love it when HR comes out every now and then and tells the company, "Stop getting on the internet, damn it! Big Brother is watching."
Big Brother, inside a company, comes at a pretty high premium. You want to filter your web activity and punish those for browsing non-company websites, you have two options: Block it completely (very simple solution, and why they don't choose it, I'll never know , or pay a few geeks a lot of money to monitor all internet traffic and websites viewed looking for policy violations. They'd end up finding them everywhere, and never stop finding them.
Let's just say you're calling the employees at my firm those "fluttery eyed women who laugh at your jokes..." I can tell you this my friend, I wouldn't need to search for your myspace profile to throw your resume out in a heartbeat.
By the way, genius, when you REGISTER with myspace, your first and last name are required. If your name is on the application, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to find you.
And for the record, I don't check myspace accounts, but some of colleagues have already adopted the procedure and because of folks like you out there, with good reason.
You shouldn't go around insulting occupations of which you know nothing about. Try doing the work of an HR person for one day, bet you'd be singing a different tune Zeke.
Of course, I wouldn't expect a know-it-all pothead supporter who doesn't see any harm in frying brain cells to understand. ![[Roll Eyes]](rolleyes.gif)
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posted April 04, 2006 08:13 AM
My apologies, Zeke. I realize you are not a doctor, but I didn't realzie that everyone else who posted in support of your opinons were.
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posted April 04, 2006 08:22 AM
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Originally posted by redwritinghood:
Let's just say you're calling the employees at my firm those "fluttery eyed women who laugh at your jokes..." I can tell you this my friend, I wouldn't need to search for your myspace profile to throw your resume out in a heartbeat.
By the way, genius, when you REGISTER with myspace, your first and last name are required. If your name is on the application, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to find you.
And for the record, I don't check myspace accounts, but some of colleagues have already adopted the procedure and because of folks like you out there, with good reason.
You shouldn't go around insulting occupations of which you know nothing about. Try doing the work of an HR person for one day, bet you'd be singing a different tune Zeke.
Of course, I wouldn't expect a know-it-all pothead supporter who doesn't see any harm in frying brain cells to understand.
Oh, so you’re saying that private corporations are now using the Patriot Act to gain access to another private company’s database of user information. Not to fight terrorism, and not to find sex offenders because a simple, tried and true, background check does the job. No, you see, HR is doin’ it to keep all them potheads from getting’ a job.
HR's job is to manage people and to assure there are enough bodies in any given department with the right qualifications to get the job done. It's not a big deal to me because a majority of the people I work with probably don't have anything more than a high school diploma, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone with a college degree working where I do (minus the purveyors of wisdom and guidance in the HR department).
A lot of people use drugs, and that’s just a fact you’ll never accept. Going around firing them all is not going to help the economy. I work in a factory. You know how many members of management smoke pot? Needless to say, the floor workers, who work hard and are not stupid people. Fire them all, if it makes you happy. But good luck finding a crew like them who are “clean” and “pure”. You’d have to convert the entire male population to a bunch of candle carrying alter boys.
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posted April 04, 2006 09:43 AM
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Originally posted by redwritinghood:
Sorry to keep posting about Myspace, but today a radio station reported that some companies' HR Directors can and are checking your profile on Myspace to determine whether they should consider you for employment.
Might wanna take off those crazy bong pictures and naughty phrases if you're in the running for a new gig!
So my boss can find out if I've set up a profile to convince everyone I'm a 16 year old virgin named Molly Mounds? Yikes....
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posted April 04, 2006 02:27 PM
Funny thing about this...
I was just in my doctors office less than two hours ago discussing the pros and cons of using weed medicinally.
In my case the pros are outwaying the cons.
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posted April 04, 2006 05:26 PM
Yeah, I think a lot of people in here need to pay a visit to their doctor and have a candid conversation so they can learn something from a source, instead of rejecting it because I (of all posters) happened to repeat what they've been pointing out since Nixon rejected a government probe into it's medicinal value. Some people are just stuck back in that decade, it seems.
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