This nurse went from job to job killing patients. Hospitals were afraid to give negative reports to prospective employers because they feared being sued.
The woman who stole my identity was an employee of my physician. Since she was familiar with false identities, doubtless she was able to get the same type of job elsewhere.
This is another good reason for businesses to publish their employees' photos, identification numbers, and names, plus any testimonials that customers have written about them. An a job applicant with too few testimonials over a 15-year career would automatically be suspect and need not be hired. No employer ever need fear being sued for offering negative feedback.
Let's make the world more like a small village. If we self-police, we may fend of the need for a police state. We might use social networking systems like LinkedIn to do this.
Lastly, let me say this: People need to stop being so fearful, get some backbone, and "do unto others." There is a huge difference between a risk of being sued and a risk of someone being murdered. If corporations cannot legally obey the Golden Rule, then corporations must be replaced by unlimited liability partnerships and sole proprietorships.
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2 comments:
There is a possible downside to your theory of "a potential hire with too few testimonials not being considered". This theory assumes that employers would be trust worthy and give honest information regardless of actual experience.
It seems we always place protections for the few bad apples and it effects everyone. A few employers mis-used their power to give references , and now we have to protect the employee.
Maybe there is middle-ground. A good intentions honest recommendation could be given, but all recommendations given need to be based on factual provable data?
You make a very good point. There must be incentives for everyone to provide reliable information.
Since my inspiration for Nearish is the model of the small village in which everyone knows everyone else, I'd like for each person to be judged also on whether he is a fair judge. People would "consider the source." Each one would have an incentive to give reliable information if he wants to be taken seriously.
If we use computer information technology to try create this type of social dynamic across a bigger community, I suggest that each person should publish all of his testimonials and that anyone could find all of what a given person has said about anyone else. When considering whether to believe Tim's testimonial about you or me, we would consider what he has written about other people.
For example, if we worked for Tim for a long time and did not receive testimonials, others could see that 112 other people also worked for Tim and that he wrote testimonials for only one of them.
A feature to count testimonials given, and the ratio thereof, would be fairly easy to implement, I think, in a system such as LinkedIn (www.linkedin.com).
But I envision an open, standards-based system based on meta tags and something like the FOAF (Friend Of A Friend) protocol. Search engines could search for testimonials and applications could perform any number of queries and calculations. Algorithms to select the most reliable candidates could be written, tested, published, and continually improved.
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