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I had an interviewing supervisor ask me "Do you have children"? And, she continued, "All the women w/ children call in sick all the time." I had no children, but it was none of her business. I never wanted the job after that. Was in Florida at a Home Care Agency.
I stood up and let her know it was better if she continued her search and place me out...I will not take a job where they tell me pretty much I would have little job training and expect to learn in three days. I fled and never looked back. I saw that same job in Indeed three months later so I bet whoever took the job ran out in horror.
I wonder if she learned to not talk so much about how horrible the job would be?
The second interviewer (the boss of the one who insulted my hometown) spent a good portion of the interview time ranting about people abusing sick leave.
This reminds me of an interview I had a few months ago. The interviewer told me that the position became available because someone transferred to a new role, a role which went through 4 people in a very short time before they went with someone internal. She went on to badmouth the first person she'd hired for the open position.
The single company review I found online for this place was from someone who quit due to having her as a boss. I could see why.
I had an interviewing supervisor ask me "Do you have children"? And, she continued, "All the women w/ children call in sick all the time." I had no children, but it was none of her business. I never wanted the job after that. Was in Florida at a Home Care Agency.
It just felt like a weird thing to see, watching the living fish nip at the dead fish. I guess you had to be there.
Although it's possibly that the fish had recently died and nobody was aware of it. I can see it being weird, but I'm not sure that I'd walk away from an otherwise good job because of that.
I used to think that questions like this were 'illegal,' but they're not. The rule is that the employer may not discriminate on that basis, but they can ask the question. Of course, just asking the question opens up a can of worms, not least because the candidate now thinks they might be subject to some kind of illegal discrimination.
It just felt like a weird thing to see, watching the living fish nip at the dead fish. I guess you had to be there.
I imagine you could perhaps think it shows a lack of attention to detail (including attention to detail that forms one of their first impressions-- the lobby), or a certain disregard for life, or any number of things.
(Though in truth, I think a lot of places with fish tanks use a business that comes in and maintains the tanks and such, like the equipment/fish are essentially "rented" from an aquarium business, so dead fish might be more on that business than the company hosting the tank.)
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Originally Posted by westender
I used to think that questions like this were 'illegal,' but they're not. The rule is that the employer may not discriminate on that basis, but they can ask the question. Of course, just asking the question opens up a can of worms, not least because the candidate now thinks they might be subject to some kind of illegal discrimination.
This. It's not illegal to ask, but it's illegal to make your hiring decision based on the answer... and if Sue Smith has just admitted she has kids and is subsequently not hired, the company has just opened themselves up to her claiming she wasn't chosen because of her parental status (even if that's not the reason, they'd have to work to prove it or at least deal with the lawsuit/bad publicity).
I used to think that questions like this were 'illegal,' but they're not. The rule is that the employer may not discriminate on that basis, but they can ask the question. Of course, just asking the question opens up a can of worms, not least because the candidate now thinks they might be subject to some kind of illegal discrimination.
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Originally Posted by K12144
This. It's not illegal to ask, but it's illegal to make your hiring decision based on the answer... and if Sue Smith has just admitted she has kids and is subsequently not hired, the company has just opened themselves up to her claiming she wasn't chosen because of her parental status (even if that's not the reason, they'd have to work to prove it or at least deal with the lawsuit/bad publicity).
But the interviewer explicitly said that all of the women with children called in sick all the time. Isn't that discrimination? And, didn't the interviewer basically say that he/she was asking the question so that he/she could discriminate?
On the other hand, is it legal to ask, as a hypothetical question, what the interviewer would do if he/she was about to board a plane to sign a multi-million dollar deal, and he/she gets a call saying that his/her kid is sick and needs to be picked up from school? And only hire people who have a reasonable plan in place? Assuming this is a legitimate need for the job in question, and not just a way to weed out parents?
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