Ask Prospective Employees About Internet Activity?

[craigster59]

Yes sir, I'd be proud to work for VanDelay Industries. I frequent the Pelican bbs and my screen name is "snowman"..

[cgarr]

Depends on what she looks like I guess?

[Rick Lee]

I really wonder about some of those gov't. security clearances. When I lived in VA, I regularly came home to find business cards in my door from investigators wanting info on my neighbors. I never knew any of the neighbors they were asking about. In fact, I'd never had anything to do with more than about two of my neighbors in the eight years I lived in one of those houses. What do those investigators think they're gonna learn from such folks?

[Dave L]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

What do those investigators think they're gonna learn from such folks?

I think the conversation would go like this;

Hi we are wondering if you know Bob, from across the street?

Bob?? .... Oh ya Bob.. from across the street.

Yes, can you tell me anything about him?

He seems like a nice guy, keeps to himself, quiet... well, we went over once and he answered the door with a running, bloody chainsaw.... but that was only once

[Rick Lee]

Exactly! How reliable could a neighbor's info ever be?

I went to an open house a few door down once and these guys looked like an al Qaeda cell. When we went in the basement, they had a room full of women in full burkas. It was surreal. Imagine if an investigator had asked them about me.

"Oh yeah, he is an infidel, always drinking alcohol and using bad language while working on his Porsche."