We at my apartment (so me and Marissa) have heard that the invasion of employee privacy by Wall Street firms has taken a bold step forward: hacking into employee Facebook accounts. According to a sometimes reliable, sometimes not source, the human relations department at a certain investment bank has been using creative technology to get into the profiles of current (and prospective) minions, to monitor their off (and on) the clock activities. This is bull shit and I’ll tell you why: it would be one thing, if you and those with the power to get you fired willingly entered into a Facebook friendship, thereby granting them full-access to see what’s a-poppin’ in your personal life whenever they pleased. But this means that someone who doesn’t even have the bedside manner to ask “You wanna do this” first, or worse, someone whose online friendship you’ve formally said no thanks to, can see that you’ve added “Boiler Room” to your favorite movies (sheep) and changed your status from “Billy is working at Bear Stearns” to “Billy is getting a public citation for having relieved himself on the sidewalk in front of Bear Stearns which he wouldn’t have had to do in the first place if those FUCKS hadn’t fired him.” Anyway, try and guess which firm we’re talking about via Facebook message (thereby granting me access to see your profile for one week even if we’re not friends) and I will respond shortly.
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err.. Lehman?
definitely suntrust
I have zero problems with banks checking Facebook…if you’re dumb enough to put that stuff on the web, you might be dumb enough to misappropriate information that really matters.
no pictures or wall on your limited profile, kiddos. keep to the stuff you actually post yourself. or can they see the full profile?
I would fire an employee if he/she were on facebook.
is bess’s roommate wall street’s lincoln tunnel?
Just set up my page.
Where do I find the dirty pictures?
Bess word on the street…no pun intended…is that you are extremely hot, when do we get to see a picture?
what about those of us that can’t access fbook inboxes from work bc our firms are demi-fascists??
also i bet its goldman, their nerdy IT heebs will do anything for a chance to to dock* with unsnipped perspective hires
*http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=docking+urbandictionary
Any firm who engages in this type of activity is begging to be sued BIG TIME and they are pissing away the owners money. This would be worse than insider trading from a pr point of view.
HAM resurfaces. Check out the athletics pages on hamilton.edu. That place is churnin out some nice boy ass.
Speakin of heebs…
Bess can I be your first facebook friend who’s not a member of the 12 Tribes….
Speakin of heebs…
Bess can I be your first facebook friend who’s not a member of the 12 Tribes….
bess went to amherst, so it’s pretty likely she has facebook friends who aren’t jews.
4 out of 386. Not that I counted….
I thought she went to Brown?
It’s as bess as the nose on plain’s face…
Do you have to be someone’s friend to see their profile?
is your roommate katie or marissa?
Bess is friends with Pete Murphy, the whitest boy who ever lived. So I’m pretty sure the ban on gentiles has been lifted :)
aren’t jews white boys too?
At this point, we all know Bear Stearns sucks. But really, I’m a little disappointed in Facebook. This sounds like a Facebook security issue.
no
how dumb are you guys who are naming bear, suntrust, goldman, etc.? average dumb or actually retarded?
If Adam Sandler isn’t white I don’t know who is.
Italians arent either. Irish, maybe
Dont you be callin HAM ’05 dumb
It can’t be Lehman. Their firewall blocks Facebook and their IT department is staffed with at least a few mildly retarded people who routinely refuse any requests more complicated than a keyboard installation.
What’s funny is that all of the above is true and not at all sarcastic. It would be nice if our network could handle espionage! I guess we just have to settle for having the smartest MBS traders out there who aren’t cooking the books.
Adam Sandler is not white. There are some jews however that are, who are known as white anglo saxon hebrews. They grew up on Park Ave, went to Temple Emmanuel, etc. They were not raised in Livingstein.
isn’t “white anglo saxon” an oxymoron?
No it’s redundant and superfluous.
sure is, but I suspect the purpose is to make the abbreviation the more pleasant WASP, rather than the harsh ASP. Or in the context here, WASH vs. ASH
touche…my bad
everyone loves HAM’05
i dunno … ash is pretty white. that would have worked well.
it is impossible that LEH hr got a special dispensation from the facebook police for recruiting purposes then?
I think they missed one with Jute* Jews or JuJus.
* the Jutes came over with the Angles/Saxon. They had a vastly superior culture but were ethnically cleansed out of existence.
survival of the fittest i guess
Goldilocks and publius, you’re both pathetic corp. drones. No organization has a right to pry into your personal life – online or otherwise – just because they sign your paycheck. It never ceases to amaze me what these firms will do to put themselves in the same school as fascist governments around the world. I expect this from Prince al Waleed’s Citigroup, not from anyone else.
4:09 your boss probably reports to a heeb.
If you work for a decent firm.
@ 4:18 he doesn’t report to any Jutes
Due to Bess’s less than spectacular posts and a Bill Simmons marathon chat, I have only clicked on dealbreaker 4 times today. Bess, today wasn’t your best hump day.
“Due to Bess’s less than spectacular posts and a Bill Simmons marathon chat, I have only clicked on dealbreaker 4 times today. Bess, today wasn’t your best hump day.”
time that couldn’t been better spent killing yourself. maybe tomorrow?
bess denied my friend request…. fail.
You were bold to try.
We’re still waiting for Galahad.
HAM ’05 @2:39 is clearly an imposter. The real HAM would 1) never confuse prospective with perspective and 2) even though I wish it were not so, have no idea what docking is
“time that couldn’t been better spent killing yourself. maybe tomorrow?” was a classic. It nails my sentiment about hatchet wounds like 4:25pm to a T.
“Bess, today wasn’t your best hump day.”
Well, that depends on what you mean by hump day.
It’s not goldman, we make people sign waivers before HCM can look at their stuff. One of our interns brought one as part of the screening.