Remember the news that employers were asking applicants for their social media passwords? Reginald Braithwaite writes a fictitious resignation letter to highlight the short-sighted absurdity of those policies:
Therefore, please consider this my formal resignation. The COO does not tell me how to write software, so I will not tell her how to set HR standards, but I suggest that you review this policy and ask whether it is truly in the company’s interest to indiscriminately dig through a candidates’ private life. Either that, or we should move to a jurisdiction where we have zero exposure to legal consequences for discrimination.