> From: J. van Baardwijk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Fairly sure. I know why some people are opposed to it, but I > think they are > overestimating the possible impact on their real-world lives. > I seriously > doubt an employer would decide not to hire someone based > solely on what he > might find on a Wall of Shame. Quite frankly, if an employer > would actually > do so, I would not even *want* to work for him because he > would probably > also fire me if one single coworker would say something bad about me > (regardless of whether or not said coworker is telling the truth). > Again, speaking as an employer who has hired a fair number of people in the past: If you have a stack of resume's 6 inches high that alll look almost exactly the same and are attempting to go through them, *anything* remotely negative will move that particular name to the "no" stack. Now, you aren't likely to do an internet search on each one of those but it's possible, especially if you were hiring, say, a web-designer: "Let's see if this guy/gal has their own website." There's a big difference between winowing out the person you do not want to hire, when you haven't even met them yet, and firing someone once you have hired them. When I'm interviewing someone, generally I'm looking for reasons *not* to hire someone. If the candidate has gotten this far, the resume must look great. But now is the time to figure out if the person is blowing smoke or if they really have done all those wonderful things. If you have a choice between two wonderful candidates and find something negative about one of them, guess what you are going to do? Remind me to tell you the story about the homophobic fundamentalist christian I interviewed once who talked himself out of a job... - jmh
