keep your head down, don’t talk about mgtow, nod and smile a lot.
Yep. Exactly. I learned a valuable lesson with social media that lost me the opportunity of getting a salary paid job with the city. (Was gonna write this up in it’s own post but f~~~ it, I’ll do it right here) Their vetting process literally has to be illegal to the way they try and comb through EVERYTHING about you.
I didn’t mind it, but when they couldn’t get me on anything “criminal” they basically went after my social media s~~~. I’d written a post on Tumblr about a year ago expressing my frustration about a ticket I got in front of my house for double parking. I titled it something like “f~~~ the police.” They also showed me old ass pics of pictures I’d taken of something that looked like blunts. Just a picture of cigar looking blunts.
The reason why they decided to dig so deep into my social media history was because a month prior to this interview a child hood friend thought it would be funny to report me via an anonymous hotline, saying that he thought I was harboring radical extremism, and that I sounded suicidal. All because of my pro trump posts on facebook which he disagreed with. I had no idea at the time what he had done, but I was visited by Police, and then the FBI. They both said that I had nothing to worry about (but how often do they lie).
But in order to remain transparent I had to tell my investigator for this job. Which is the only reason I can think why they’d go nuts and dig back this far into my social media history. I was also uploading a podcast at the time on youtube and they even took snippets from it displaying their disappointment at my behavior on there. Since I’d made the podcast “public” I guess they thought they could use it as a critique to how I’d perform at this job.
Even though I assured them this had nothing to do with me not being able to perform to the best of my ability at the job I was applying for, they didn’t seem to buy it.
I’m still awaiting the letter in the mail of them trying to disqualify me for the position and will have 30 days upon receiving it to appeal it (since it’s a city job they have to do this by law).
The amount bureaucratic red tape I went through to try and get this job, over a year of interviews and paperwork, and then they try and base it all off my “social media.” My record is squeaky clean. But I just don’t know anyone in my area who can help. I’ll probably have to hire a lawyer.
I don’t even want the job anymore. I just need to clear my f~~~ing name. Not really sure if I’m on some potential terrorist list because of what this kid did by trying to report me to an anonomous terrorist hotline. This just happened recently. Is this even legal for them to get away with?
I asked the “Legal Advice” sub reddit and they basically laughed at me saying that I couldn’t do anything about it. I wanted to sue my friend for damages (like not getting this job) but I wasn’t technically charged for anything and it’s only his word against mine. Even though the police saw that I wasn’t a threat (no s~~~) they still have it written down somewhere that I was reported. I’m sure they can say that this had nothing to do with why I was passed up for getting hired.
Prior to this happening I was literally 99% sure they were going to hire me. Now it seems they’ve “lost” all my paperwork out of the blue. From how I’m writing this out, is it obvious I’m still pretty p~~~ed about it?
GoodKid44 2 years, 3 months ago.
