Was just asked to show my Fishbowl profile in an interview.

The reasoning offered: “It’s a work-related app and gives insight into how they could expect me to contribute to agency culture.”

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Posting as :
works at
You are currently posting as works at

Just blink a couple times and say “what’s Fishbowl?"

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“I have it at home on my iPad. I don’t put it on my phone, so I can concentrate at work."

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Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Is that even legal?

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Severely frowned upon?

I would feel violated

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That’s just wrong.

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Hard no

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WUT

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Did you show it? What happened?

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No way! I mentioned my love score in an interview, and they really liked that haha (btw, it's 2,347, not a big deal). Tell us the rest of the story - how did it go down?

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Smooth

file it under “things that have never happened"

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Say what?!?!

So maybe they want to assess if you’re a positive or negative player. But tell ‘em F no. People have to be true in interviews. And confident enough to walk away from a BS invasion into their privacy.

LOL.

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