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Spent $300 on a social media scrubber before a job hunt
It found a tweet from 2012 where I made a dumb joke about my old boss. I deleted it, but it made me wonder how many people get caught by stuff they forgot they posted. Do you think companies actually go back that far?
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kimfisher4d ago
Used to think they didn't bother, but that's a wake-up call. They definitely dig if they're serious about you.
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aaron_adams4d ago
My cousin works in HR for a tech company, and she told me they have software that automatically flags stuff from over a decade back. It's not even a person digging at first, it's a bot scanning everything linked to your name. So yeah, they absolutely go back that far if the system finds it. It's kind of scary how a dumb joke from when you were a teenager can pop up now. I mean, that's why people say to lock everything down or delete old accounts. It feels unfair, but it's just part of the process now.
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