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Comment by dontchooseanick | Hacker News Reader

Simple

- No linkedin, no instagram, no fb, and afaic not even a google account (yes android works, rooted)

When my employer asks me to "publish", "have a presence" or "shine for the company" in any way I find the NDA, security rules and legalese I've signed and reply

1. This is against cybersecurity rules, can you sign me a paper stating you want me to break rule #37 and rule #61

2. Then I ask him to accept all the end-user agreements in the company name or its own personal name, and send me back the login+password so I can contribute daily BS - oh and buy me a company owned phone if such interactions involve using a MobileApp(tm), no way I'm mixing personal and work on my phone

The discussion stopped here, never got a reply, did this to 3 employers already

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If you would have just said "sorry I'm not really into social media" then perhaps you could have ended the conversation in 2 minutes and wouldn't have had to repeat it to further 2 employers shortly later.

Perhaps I didn't explain it well. Those employers kept me ! and I didn't have to repeat it to other potential employers "shortly" later.

It just ended the conversation there. The crucial part being I'm not against publishing as a part of my job, but no way you're making it a personal requirement / on my behalf.

The outcome being "let's stay good friends", not "you're fired"/"don't get the job", I did get it. As such, not ending the conversation in 2 mins but letting them reviewing their argument is crucial : the constraints are yours, and you don't have anything to blame me for ..

Fair enough :)

It was just funny to read "never got a reply, did this to 3 employers already" and then I couldn't resist this tongue in cheek response. Sorry ^^

It was a nice troll, gave me a chuckle.

I still think your "sorry I'm not really into social media" would have most likely ended it as well and would have come off a lot more polite. Could have escalated it if needed from there

I don’t want to interrupt your “stuck it to the man” story but I’m just curious whether it was HR telling you to participate with a clear message you’d otherwise be fired, or whether it was just over enthusiastic marketing folk?

Over-enthusiastic marketing. Sometimes it was HR promoting participating in social networks "for the company". Nobody ever threatened me, they were just really pushy, until the pushback

Lol, that's a simple "no, I don't want to do that"

> did this to 3 employers already

Let me guess — in the last month?

Nope, 10 years, 2 years and 4 years resp.

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