[Novalug] [OT] Free speech, or how to commit career suicide with a keyboard. was Re: Pen is mightier than sword -- Speech restricted hereon, too

John Warren jpwarren00@gmail.com
Mon Jul 20 04:32:39 EDT 2009


On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM, William Warren <
hescominsoon@emmanuelcomputerconsulting.com> wrote:

> Miguel Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> If I were an employer and read your posts in this mailing list I would be
>> scared and think twice to interview you. I am NOT kidding (sorry, I couldn't
>> help it).
>>
>>  If i was looking to hire him i would give him equal consideration..i
> don't believe in punishing folks for exercising their Constitutional rights.
>


It wouldn't be punishment, it would be a basic character judgement based on
public discussions that Paul has been involved in.  He's basically just made
himself nearly unemployable at ANY government job, ANY employer that will
potentially have H1B employees working with him, ANY employer who was
foreign born, and ANY employer with a strick anti-violence policy.

At one point I was going to see if I could reference him into a job, my
company is hiring like mad right now, but he wouldn't even volunteer a bit
of his obviously plentiful free time to show me what he could do.  And now
after what he's said here about H1B's, foreign born citizens, violent
conflict with the government and negatively responding without fully
understanding all sorts of  conversational points or implications, I don't
think I could get him an IT job even if I gave him my highest reference.

Everything you do online is subject to review by potential employers.  In
looking for work, it should be expected that these conversations will be
reviewed as part of the inteview process, especially in the IT industry.
And the IT industry is fully global now, with IT professionals of every
stripe competing on a larger scale than ever before.  Nobody in need of IT
related work should be voicing hate filled and violent rhetoric in an
irrevocable public media when the workforce pool is that big.

-John W

P.S. Paul some of us just really want to help you as you are obviously
distressed, but you're making it impossible.
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