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Yes. But not for the grandiose national-security reasons that some have proposed. It's for mundane reasons: To find out who on the team can't keep their mouth shut, to find out who is bitter and cranky, to look for information someone can use against someone else at the railroad. It doesn't even have to be you that's the target. I've seen one person's quotes used to attack a third party. The person who posted -- let's call him the "stooge" -- used to work for someone who we can call "the boss." The Boss hasn't made a lot of friends at the railroad, because he's ambitious and doesn't let office politics get in his way. The stooge left the railroad, and started bad-mouthing it in forums. He didn't say anything untrue, but it wasn't complimentary, either. Someone else at the railroad -- let's call him the "fink" -- saw the stooge's posts, plucked them out, and forwarded them to a few dozen people at the railroad who were looking for ammunition to use against the boss. Later, the stooge decides he wants to go back to work for the railroad. After getting the runaround from the human resources types, he calls up his old boss, and says, "what's up?" The boss says, "I'd like to help you, but after you said this and that -- which didn't do me any favors -- forget it!
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