Impact of posted pictures on someone's future

[WhO2]

I'm working on a new story and was wondering what impact, if any, posted pictures would have on someone's future. My generation was limited to a few people having Polaroid pics, but today everyone carries a camera every where they go. Nude pictures are so much more common, but are they more accepted?

For example, if you were a hiring manager (software developers, accountants, sales people, etc...) and found a candidate had an OnlyFans sight, would that impact your decision? I recently found a picture I'm 99% sure is of a woman I worked for many years ago. She wasn't a good manager but was fun to look at. I think if I'd seen that picture while I was working for her I would have had a totally different opinion of her.

Or if you found a few nude pics of someone you were dating, would that impact the relationship? Or possibly pics/vids with multiple partners?

I think some professions will always be held to different standards (I had a teacher friend fired for being on RealSex many years ago), but it seems like in some cases it isn't frowned on.

 

[UtilityCurve]

It's widely frowned upon, but I don't agree with it at all.

I'm going to carve out an exception to "you do you" for female teachers with male students. It's not "right" to confine her sexuality within bounds set by boys as yet unable to control theirs, but life isn't always fair and forcing the issue just doesn't work.

Can't even fathom treating a woman differently if I had seen her nude, in a photo or a sex club or a beach.

 

[littlecordelera]

If the employee is expected to represent a company on a professional level, then (knowledge of) pictures of this sort would most likely eliminate that person as a candidate for hire. Most companies would never willingly put themselves in a position to appear to condone any act that others might find objectionable. However, this would depend on the industry to some extent. In the financial world, no way a person would get hired under such circumstances. In the entertainment world, it probably wouldn't matter.

 

[MaxwellSmart86]

I don't agree with this practice of employers letting people go because of their private lives being on the internet. Teachers in particular are held to such a high moral standard, yet they are people just like everyone else and they have sex like everyone else. It is not surprising when someone loses their job over a nude photo or video, that the people condemning the person have more skeletons in their closet.

If I was an employer, what a person does in their private life (online or otherwise) would not deter me from hiring them, unless it's something illegal that could get my company in trouble with the government.

 

[Dcharger]

I'm working on a new story and was wondering what impact, if any, posted pictures would have on someone's future. My generation was limited to a few people having Polaroid pics, but today everyone carries a camera every where they go. Nude pictures are so much more common, but are they more accepted?

For example, if you were a hiring manager (software developers, accountants, sales people, etc...) and found a candidate had an OnlyFans sight, would that impact your decision? I recently found a picture I'm 99% sure is of a woman I worked for many years ago. She wasn't a good manager but was fun to look at. I think if I'd seen that picture while I was working for her I would have had a totally different opinion of her.

Or if you found a few nude pics of someone you were dating, would that impact the relationship? Or possibly pics/vids with multiple partners?

I think some professions will always be held to different standards (I had a teacher friend fired for being on RealSex many years ago), but it seems like in some cases it isn't frowned on.

I loved the show REAL SEX, growing up . . . watching it on HBO. I think there were 32 different episodes.

 

[YourSecretDesires]

In the financial world, no way a person would get hired under such circumstances.

That's interesting, and I find it kind of crazy. I would think that in the finance sector, if you can make a company money then what you do in your spare time would be irrelevant (barring crimes and such). In fact we know that people get "second chances" who have done far worse than pose nude.

I don't see why the world gets so hung up about sex but that's me. If I found images of an employee or boss that were sexual, it would probably make me curious and intrigued, or perhaps the opposite (just forget about it) but I wouldn't consider them unworthy of their daily bread.

 

[SandraMaus]

There is a simple way out of it that is working everywhere in the galaxy. ' Must be one of those Ai deep fake porn things I read about ' . Case closed

 

[MrMikelobe1952]

I don't agree with this practice of employers letting people go because of their private lives being on the internet. Teachers in particular are held to such a high moral standard, yet they are people just like everyone else and they have sex like everyone else. It is not surprising when someone loses their job over a nude photo or video, that the people condemning the person have more skeletons in their closet.

If I was an employer, what a person does in their private life (online or otherwise) would not deter me from hiring them, unless it's something illegal that could get my company in trouble with the government.

You have pointed to a principle that was pretty widely recognized in work places in the days and in the parts of the country where labor unions were strong. Under a Union contract, an employee could not be fired for conduct that was not related to the job and did not have an impact on the employer. Now, the principle was subject to disputes about what conduct was related to the job. Was a teacher moonlighting as a stripper engaging in conduct that could have an impact on how she was able to teach and relate to students. (I would say no, but this would be pre-internet. So, none of her students are likely to see her naked.)

This principle has now been greately eroded because most employees no longer have the protection of a union. The Employer now is "free" to fire someone for almost any reason they damn well please, while the employee has to go along with whatever rules an employer makes.

Of course, this relates to firing people. In the hiring realm, employers have always been pretty much free to establish whatever standards they want. I agree that whether a women has shown her tits on the internet or a guy has posted his dick pics should not affect whether they can make money for a financial institution. But it makes it much less likely that thye will get hired.