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Katja144 · Expert Joined: 22 Aug 2005 Posts: 177 Career Advice: +2/-0

It still blows my mind that while a prospective employer can't legally require you to put your Social Security number, agreement to a credit check (and some other personal information of the same caliber) on a job application, they CAN legally refuse to consider you if you don't. I don't understand how that counts as not requiring you to do it, then...I mean, sure, you have a choice: you don't have to put it on if you don't want the job. Some choice!

(My absolute favorites are the ones who want you, right on the APPLICATION, to clear them to get your medical records from your doctor. Like I'm going to give these folks permission to look at my PRIVATE MEDICAL INFORMATION long before they even think of asking me for an interview??? I have no idea why this is legal)

Not a question. Just wanted to start a discussion.

Randy · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 2:58 am Post subject:

Oh, hell, don't even get me started. I've not been hanging around here very long--and I think this is the single-best forum going for discussing these matters--but it should be clear to everyone else that I loathe corporate America, employers, and everything there is relative to the "hiring process" and being an "employee."

Yeah, can't ask my age (unless applying for a truck-driving job...okay, I'll give 'em that one), and "are you over 18" is fine.

But then turn around and ask the year you graduated from high-school?

Okay, let's see: I graduated in 1969. Work backwards. Thirty-eight years ago. Most graduate somewhere around age 17-18, right? So 17 + 38 = 55. Yep. That's me. I'll be 55 in August. (Actually I graduated when I was 16.)

Asking outright? Illegal.

Working backwards? Perfectly legal.

Working in America? Priceless.

I just finished an 80,000 word manuscript about my "adventures" of working for 50 employers. We must (!) bury, once and for all, the absolute LIES about that so-called "American dream" and "opportunities" and all the rest that translates every time into nothing more than "obey" and "do not challenge authority."

We're a nation so proud of our determination to kill anyone else on the planet who blinks the wrong way, but worse than sheep when it comes to working....

I have to shut-up now.....

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