No, not Springsteen. And not your wife (or someone else's wife ).

 

If you get a friend request from your boss at work, what should you do? A lot of bosses are doing this to spy on their employees. Should you accept it? Ignore it? Decline it?

 

What if your company requires you to accept the friend request from the boss?

 

Some states have adopted laws to disallow a company from requiring their employees to provide their social media passwords. Yes you read that right. I can't believe any company would go that far.

 

Read the article: Required To 'Friend' The Boss On Facebook? More States Say No

I would block "the boss" from being able to find me on FB or see any of my posts.

In my currently company, it wouldn't bother me at all. I don't put anything on there anymore that would matter to her anyway.

 

My boss hasn't and I don't think would ever send one.

I know a woman that the boss logged her social media actions to prove she was posting when she should have been working. IMO that's what most are looking for...well that and bashing the company.

I would find another job.

Just don't get Facebook and you don't have to worry about it.

I would probably accept it. I'm not on Facebook when I'm not supposed to be, and I never talk about work on Facebook either.

I would probably accept it. I'm not on Facebook when I'm not supposed to be, and I never talk about work on Facebook either.

 

That's me. And, I am already friends with my boss on Facebook. I don't post anything controversial so, unless I can be fired for being among the 1% most boring people alive, I think it's all good.

Nothing against my boss, but I wouldn't be comfortable with it. There are very few people that I currently work with that I am FB friends with. I don't get political, or share pictures of me shotgunning beers on Facebook, but I just think it kinda crosses the line into potential problems. I've occasionally had a couple knucklehead friends post some nonsense, or old pictures on my page that I wouldn't be comfortable with my boss or co-workers seeing. Every situation and person is different though, so I wouldn't say that it's universally a bad thing.

 

I have become FB friends with former bosses and co-workers.

Nothing good can come from it.

 

 

I'd find a polite way to say I don't friend people at work. I like to keep my private life separate.

Deny it and move on...

I wish my boss would send me a friend request so when I make vague posts about my job I'd want to know if they could tell I was talking about them. I would welcome it.

I know someone who is looking for a new job that had posted stuff about their current workplace on Facebook. This person had blocked all coworkers/bosses from being able to see their account. Now that this person is looking for a new job they have disabled their account during the interview process and when they came back they changed their Facebook name to a name no one knew and had a bunch of people trying to figure out who they were. Me knowing this person better than most people saw the new name and knew what was going on. Pretty slick way to be public yet stay private.

I know someone who is looking for a new job that had posted stuff about their current workplace on Facebook. This person had blocked all coworkers/bosses from being able to see their account. Now that this person is looking for a new job they have disabled their account during the interview process and when they came back they changed their Facebook name to a name no one knew and had a bunch of people trying to figure out who they were. Me knowing this person better than most people saw the new name and knew what was going on. Pretty slick way to be public yet stay private.

 

I have more than a few friends that have done the same. They've dropped their last name from their profile and use their middle name as their last name. A lot of teachers use this method. It keeps students (and administration) from finding them online.