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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CleverNickName" data-source="post: 9820500" data-attributes="member: 50987">Following this train of thought all the way to the station:Part of my job is to review the resumes for new hires, and to vet the different contractors and their qualifications when they come on site (welders, pipefitters, operators, it takes lots of folks to build a pipeline).  Well, I've noticed that in the last few years, many new applicants now include an online address for Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn, or <s>Twitter</s> X.  You can probably guess where I'm going with this, but...If you provide a social media link, prospective employers will follow it.  And if they see a photo of you in a graffiti-covered hard hat complete with anti-LGBT stickers on it, and they see a bunch of other hateful content and offensive jokes about LGBT kids, and if they find a complaint about the "woke engineer who gave the job enterivew(sic) yesterday" and how he doesn't "know jack s--t about what welders do," they are going to do so much worse than Not Hire You.We're talking screenshots.  Emails.  Phone calls.  Plural.  With follow-ups.There are many lessons to be learned today, but the biggest one is also the simplest:  be polite in public.(based on a true story)</blockquote>