I have seen various people state their political preference on facebook. Most of the time, it is the usual ‘liberal, conservative, moderate, progressive’ or other usual labels. We all know that libertarians are greatly outnumbered by the others. I am also trying to get a new job. I heard that employers sometimes look at facebook accounts of prospective employees. As market oriented as libertarianism is, many people have this bizarro pyscho hatred for it.
I think it’s silly to for people to put any personal information at all on Facebook for others to see, employers included. If you really want to have it on your facebook account, but don’t want an employer to see it, make your account private or just remove political references from it while you’re in the interview process. After your hired they won’t be scouring it for those things.
The employer sucks if he bases standards on political views rather than ability. I would personally not want to be employed by someone who is like that. I don’t think I’ll be comfortable working with a bunch of hard statists either.
keep your profile private, or at least your political views part if you are worried. But I think it makes sense for your friends to see that your a libertarian, they might see your profile and ask about it or something (unlikely, but possible)
I disagree. A person’s political views tell a lot about the person. Would any of you hire a self-proclaimed socialist? What do yo think are the chances are of this employee starting a union or causing similar trouble at your factory?
Well, with a socialist, in the case of a factory job, he most likely would consider a union. But if for example, you ran a very small business where all employees, the owner and the customers were all personal, that would be much less likely to happen.
I would personally put job qualifications and work ethics first if I were hiring.
But suppose you were in the position of looking for work and you had to pay the bills some way, some how. The question is would you suck in your pride a bit?
I have mine set as “Anarcho-Capitalist”. I switched to that from “Libertarian” to distance myself from the “libertarians” of the Fox News club. For fun I had it set to “(A) + $”, but the (A) was an actual character I stole from someone else so it was actually circled.
Every time we hire someone new I look on Facebook to find out who they are before I meet them.
Guess you gotta scope it out and see what the prevailing attitudes are with the people you’re going to be working with/working for. lol, you could always keep everything blank until you know the coast is clear. That would be the cautious way to play it.
I was under the expression we are talking about the views of the person and not actual action that they start a small revolution (and in Sweden they already got unions, for anything and everything). To answer the question if I’d personally hire that person, yes. I consider the gain that (s)he is working with me is far grather for my cause then for (s)he go on welfare and have time to “think”.