[Jack_]

Just gonna copy and paste what I posted on the Newsbeat Facebook page the other day about this story since I can't be bothered to type it out again.

How does how you act outside of work at the weekend and in your own personal leisure time bare any relevance to your job and the standard of work you're likely to carry out? Why should how you wish to spend your free time and what you wish to discuss online have any impact on any job/uni place you have applied for? Just because someone may go out and get smashed at the weekend and post it all over Facebook, telling a few risqué jokes in the process, that doesn't mean they're necessarily going to work any less harder than any other applicant. It is rude, based entirely on assumptions and a complete invasion of privacy. And it's only going to lose more and more people jobs and educational places, which with high levels of unemployment is exactly what we want isn't it? How very clever of them.