It’s a beautiful and sunny, if not a wee-bit cold, day in San Francisco. My usually foggy neighborhood is bright and shiny. The morning was going well. I was practicing my French, opened my book on teaching myself PHP when I was sent a direct message on Twitter in regards to my earlier post. Had I seen the latest news in regards to Monster.com? Why no, I hadn’t. Thanks for sharing.
Technology FAIL
Now I recently resigned up to Monster.com as I have for most job sites that currently exist. So it was a welcome surprise to find out that they had been hacked, again. This is not only a technology FAIL but a PR FAIL. I had to read the news of a breach of security, possibly my information, in an article on USA TODAY. I have received no email, no explanation and no action items that show me how I am going to be protected in the future. This isn’t the first time my information has been exposed. In fact, it’s not that Monster.com was hacked that bothers me, it’s the fact they haven’t communicated it with me — the unemployed user. My information has been among sites that have been hacked so many times I may just sign for the experimental human chip to be sewn in to my arm.That way someone would need to take my arm to get my formerly above average credit and student loan payments. For now, I’m waiting for Monster to tell me what they plan to do and continue to apply for jobs — elsewhere.
I’ll just consider this another conspiracy theory to keep the unemployed jobless for longer. At least I finally got registered for unemployment benefits. Let’s hope there is no technology fail there.
