• foggy@lemmy.world
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    I’m getting sick of the invasive questions

    "Gender?

    Sex at birth?

    Are you trans?

    Are you gay? Bi?

    Ever been depressed?

    Abuse alcohol? Drugs?

    Ever been arrested?

    Ever been in the military?

    Well what about your spouse?

    Ever work for the government?

    That degree you mentioned, we can’t ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?"

    NONE OF THIS HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE POSITION.

    This is 100% occuring in the USA. Where I live and work.

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      Gender?

      Present.

      Sex at birth?

      No, my first time was well over a decade later.

      Are you trans?

      Transtabular, from your position.

      Are you gay? Bi?

      I prefer professionalism to gaiety during interviews. This meeting isn’t over yet.

      Ever been depressed?

      Not in the button sense, no.

      Abuse alcohol? Drugs?

      Neither physically nor emotionally. No, thank you, not now.

      Ever been arrested?

      Have you been?

      Ever been in the military?

      Even if I was, you’re not getting veteran’s benefits through me.

      Well what about your spouse?

      Even if they were, you’re not getting veteran’s benefits through them.

      Ever work for the government?

      Why, are you paying public service rates?

      That degree you mentioned, we can’t ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?

      I think it was sometime around when I graduated from college.

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        Bro, your answer is being filtered out by an algorithm, even before it gets the chance to be appreciated by some hr drone.

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          Oh, I assumed this was during an interview already. If a company sent me that shit prior to an interview I’d tell the headhunter to try again with a better company.

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          No, thank the workers who literally died fighting for worker rights, which forced the government’s hands in order to keep the peace.

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            Died and often killed, don’t forget that demonstrations are the compromise for a civil discourse. When not being treated civilly, it quickly becomes a mob and the lynching begins.

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        If you’re in the USA, these questions are legal to ask.

        Some are illegal (when did you graduate), but is asked very often anyways. Often times marked as required on Workday Job applications.

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          LOL my god, people in this thread just making shit up. It is absolutely legal in the US to ask for a graduation/attendance date on an app.

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            I am floored by the amount of blind “nuh uh that is not true you’re lying.”

            Guys.

            I’m not fucking lying.

            Ass clowns.

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      Gender?

      Sex at birth?

      Are you trans?

      Are you gay? Bi?

      Ever been depressed?

      Abuse alcohol? Drugs?

      Ever been arrested?

      Ever been in the military?

      Well what about your spouse?

      Ever work for the government?

      That degree you mentioned, we can’t ask your age but uh, when did you earn that bad boy, huh?

      I’m just trying to get an egg loan! There’s people in line behind me!

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      Where are you that has questions like these?

      5 of those questions aren’t asked in the US.

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        I am in the US.

        Those questions are 100% asked.

        Source: over 1000 job applications this year so far.

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          That’s like 4 a day, every day including weekends. Where do you live where there are that many jobs available?

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            Yes that’s about right. I do between 20 and 80 per day when I do applications.

            The US.

            Remote jobs are a thing.

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          You’re lying, plain and simple. Tell me with a straight fucking face you’ve been asked about sexual preferences or gender at birth.

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      Almost none of that is asked on an application except the degree date. All of the above would be a fucking nightmare for HR. You really think employers are dumb enough to ask questions that could lead to discrimination lawsuits?!

      After you are hired, the forms ask:

      • Gender and race (you forgot race!): Employers need this for mandatory Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) reporting.
      • Alcohol and drugs: Only for a very few positions, government, security and the like. Perhaps you were filling out a Form 4473 to buy a gun and got confused?
      • Arrested and convicted of a crime: Imagine an employee getting raped and the employer having to say, “We had no idea!” I’ve been arrested shitloads of times, no convictions, no problem. Also, I’m betting you can say “no” for misdemeanor convictions, no one gives a shit unless the job requires a security clearance. And if you think standard hiring invades your privacy, oh boy.
      • Military: Various laws to protect vets require the employer to know this for benefits, accommodations, etc., same for spouse. Also an EEO thing.
      • Government work: Never seen this, but I imagine it’s like any employer, “Ever worked for us before?”

      You made some of that up out of thin air and didn’t understand the rest. And here ya got 61 upvotes from people taking all that at face value. Be better.

      SOURCE: Worked IT for an employment firm with 200 employers. Designed and posted hiring forms, hiring data and onboarding at two places. Learned more about hiring than I ever wanted to know.

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      What is the “correct” answer for the ever worked in the government/military ones?

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        The truth. Depending on the context they will either report how many military veterans they employ (so just tabulation that goes to a checkbox if they bid for a government contract), or it involves military benefits in some manner, which will quickly come back to haunt you if you ‘lied’ on application docs.

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          Bingo. Employers are required by law to obtain veteran status. EEO reporting comes to mind.