Rules for Work!

Monday's Rush Morning Update:
Dateline: 31 August 2009

"A new Harris Interactive study, conducted for CareerBuilder.com, reveals that 45 percent of employers examine the stuff job seekers post on social networking websites. Forty-five percent! That is double the percentage of a year ago.

And it's problematic for some of you. Over a third of those employers ultimately decided not to offer a job to someone based on the content they found. (I can only imagine what some of that content is.)

Now, some of you were raised by liberals; some of you attended public schools. So, rules of work may be foreign to you. Aside from cleaning up your web postings, there are a few things you ought to know about job hunting:

• Companies don't hire you so you can make money and have health care. They hire you for the work you produce, so that they can earn profits -- which liberals will try to take away.
• Companies do not hire you in order to provide you free broadband service for you to Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, or line up dates. They expect actual productivity from you.
• Likewise, companies do not hire you in order to provide you with a good benefits package. They hire you so you can benefit them.
• And companies do not give you a raise simply because you've shown up. A raise comes after you've proven you can deliver, consistently and over time.

Finally, showing up to work -- punctually, and without attitude -- can be very helpful to your career. Despite what you young liberals have been told, the world doesn't owe you a living. It's up to you to earn one, because we're tired of being taxed to pay for your lazy lifestyles."

Rush's Reference:

NY Times: More Employers Use Social Networks to Check Out Applicants

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