April 16, 2007

  • are potential employers allowed to ask you, in an interview.. if you are single or married? ..if you have kids? i was under the impression that these questions were prohibited. you know, that could be considered discrimination if they eliminate you from the pool of candidates.. since it could be the cause of knowing that you have five children at home.. or because you are married. yeah.. i was asked today by one of the executives if i was single or not. then he proceeds to ask if i have any children.. the guy gave me the creeps.. he's one of those pervs who you'd catch wacking off in his office after hours.. he's the guy with the bangin hot wife who continues to sexually harass the mediocre looking receptionist.. but she doesn't report him or anything because he possesses such power within the company.. and secretly, she enjoys it. okay, no i'm getting off track. but yeah.. i didn't appreciate those questions. the other dude tells me that he's very interested in meeting again for a second interview. he hands me a financial worksheet and credit report authorization form.. so basically the financial worksheet is asking for the amounts of money that i hold in various places.. such as.. savings accounts. cd's, etcetera. since when did companies start requiring this kind of information from applicants? what the heezy.. i told him i'd drop it off after work today.. yeah, right. thanks for wasting a good forty minutes of my life, gentlemen..

    my coworker is sitting a few feet away from me right now, talking to another lady in our department..

    "by the time my grandchildren get to be working adults, they will be the minority".. oh geeze. she has this high pitched voice that just pierces your ear drums. it's especially annoying when she's bitching about something... which is most of the time. anyway, she's ranting on about how all these illegal immigrants are treated better (as far as getting aid from the government) than american born citizens.

    "they'll probably try to deport them (her grandchildren) since all the immigrants are taking over.. but where to?"

    "space?"

    now they're both laughing hysterically. wow.. wow.. was it really that funny?

    i read somewhere the other day.. "what's meant to be will always be".. for some odd reason, this phrase has been lingering in my head.

    oh, yeah. the red thing below is an eagle. d'oh, i don''t see it.

Comments (22)

  • Some people are fucking retards. And that interview sounds like it was really creeeepy. :

  • drugs and criminal history is common, but savings? that's fishy... even my application for gov't security clearance doesn't need it...

  • No, you can reassure your co-worker that stupidity and ignorance will always be in a slight majority.

    Very sketchy, that place that you interviewed at. That stuff, if it's even necessary, is not first-interview level stuff. More like after "we finally hired you after 6 rounds of interviews but we need to run the full background check because you are guarding the secret nuclear facility."

    And yeah, those family status questions are illegal. You could actually file a claim with the EEOC - if you don't want the job and wanted to make a point.

  • no, they are NOT supposed to ask you those kind of questions.  those are personal questions that cannot be factored in towards their decision.

    -ray leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

  • he's asking if your single because he really really wants to get with you. And if you think he's that type of person........most likely he is.

  • hehe. space. nice... i would've told her to keep her chin up. maybe we just put em on reservations and then they can open up casinos. ha!

    mm... tough call on the questions. you can say what you want about discrimination, but it's hard to really call people on it, and you KNOW it happens all the time. i'm sure it doesn't make you feel any better, but you probably have gotten some sort of benefit from being an Asian girl at some point. i hire, and i have to admit, that you take a lot of things into consideration that you legally shouldn't. but it's your business, it's your money, and sometimes it's your financial livelihood at stake, so... you do what you can to protect that, or further that.

    as far as the financial questions, it depends on the job. if you're working for a financial institution, then it's totally valid. i worked for a bank, and they ran a credit check on me. if you have a lot of access to money, even electronically, they don't want you to be in a bad financial situation or irresponsible with money such that you will be tempted to come up with some kind of scheme. i think it makes sense. and so they look for trends like gambling too, and can not hire or fire people based on those things. i think it's fair, depending on the nature of the work. like... certain things don't mix well like oil and water. convicted pedophile and working with kids? something like that.

  • the world is too too corrupt...
    And if you look through descendant lines... Everyone's an immigrant
    Such ignorance and egocentrism

  • Oh...by the way, are you single or married?  J/K.  =P

  • It probably is illegal to ask those questions. I wouldn't mind if they asked me those questions, though.  HOWEVER, if they asked me for my Friendster, Xanga, or MySpace address...........

  • hehe, i thought u were the one who yelled out "space" to answer their question :)

  • Playing devil's advocate, I can say that there's the chance that the interviewer asked about family because he's not sure if you would be able to commit the hours that the job calls for.  …but that doesn't really change the legality of it.

  • sexual harassment never sleeps. it's open for business 24 hrs a day.

  • wow... illegal questions galore... just do some browsing within job interviews and "illegal questions" and you should find all the info you need

  • yeah i've recently had to fill out a form listing all my accounts and who i trade stock with so that my company can monitor my transaction to make sure i'm doing not anything illegal. blaaaaah like i get paid enough to trade stocks.

  • what red thing?

  • Interesting.. it's fascinating how racism still persists, although so subtle it may seem. ho hum.

  • btw, thanks for the Marley "link" =)

  • potential employers always ask me how tall i am. those bastards...
    remember bob* and his misuse of the internet at my very first job?
    (* name has been changed to protect identity)
    btw, how do you get so many comments? i'm just as cool as you are...

  • some employers may casually ask about your marital status... they prolly think that you're more settled and less prone to job hopping if you're married then single.

  • Slimy ass mother f*cker...I hope I'm not like that when I grow up.  But then again it's hard to know what's "legal" these days since everything has to be politically correct. 

    and did that woman graduate high school?

  • anything about your personal background are illegal.  regardless of if they use it for a decision or not, they are not allowed to ask you about your marital status, kids, race, religion, any of that stuff.  That's law suit material and you don't even need to be hired.  Even if they hire you...how do you know if they didn't use that information to figure out how much they'll pay you?  it's wrong from the start.

    oh, by the way, she's already a global minority...maybe we should ship her ass to space now and save time and resources...

  • i think they are allowed to ask that, ive been asked that b4. i think it's allowed if it pertains to the job one way or another

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