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Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours by _delirium on Friday December 23, 2011 @01:52PM (#3386691)
For a few months that's possible, but at 12 months it starts getting tricky if you ever want a job again. May be less of a problem in tech, but in a lot of areas if you're "long-term unemployed", HR just screens out your resume; companies seem to only want to hire employed or recently-employed people (cf. http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/tribu/ct-biz-0905-wor...).
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Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours by frou_dh on Friday December 23, 2011 @06:57PM (#3387656)
The obvious idealistic response being.. would you want to work somewhere that showed such shallow thinking?
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Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours by ido on Saturday December 24, 2011 @11:04AM (#3389075)
If you need the money and can't find work?

Yes.

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Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours by nostrademons on Friday December 23, 2011 @02:25PM (#3386891)
Start a blog about your experiences and then call yourself a self-employed travel blogger. Might even make a little AdSense cash off of it too.

There are all sorts of creative ways to get around HR.

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Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours by toomuchtodo on Saturday December 24, 2011 @01:56PM (#3389393)
Or just lie and have someone you know in the industry say you worked for them during that period of time.

Hate the game, not those who must survive within it.

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Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours by georgieporgie on Friday December 23, 2011 @02:53PM (#3387000)
HR isn't going to read your blog, and HR is, sadly, the gateway to (just a guess here) 90% of job opportunities. If you have an 'in' at the company, you can bypass HR's initial gating, and your plan will work, otherwise it's unlikely.
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Re:VW deactivates employee email outside working hours by nostrademons on Friday December 23, 2011 @04:19PM (#3387300)
The point isn't to get HR to read your blog; the point is to fill up that timeslot on your resume so that automated screening systems don't reject you for having a gap. If you'd worked at a regular corporation, it's virtually certain that HR wouldn't be able to see your work product either.
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