The things you say online can come back to haunt you. Organizations are using Google, MySpace, and Facebook to check out applicants and current employees. In fact, some organizations see Google as a way to get "around discrimination laws, inasmuch as employers can find out all manner of information-some for a nominal fee-that is legally off-limits in interviews: your age, your marital status, fraternity pranks, stuff you wrote in college, political affiliations and so forth." And for those individuals who like to rant and rave about employers, there might be later consequences.
Post your answers to the following questions, with regard to the scenario in Step 1:
- What do you think about what companies are doing?
- What positives and negatives are there to such behavior?
- What are the ethical implications?