I went back and reapplied with fictitious information just to get a screen grab... the question is neatly tucked in with an Ernst & Young tax credit questionnaire under the questions about having received TANF and are you a US resident.....
Posted on 11/27/2013 2:29:36 AM PST by Grumpybutt
Obamacare has touched every aspect of American Daily Life. It must be fought at every turn.
Try being 50....old people upset the stats on their group plans.....so they are all “over qualified”.
Thats what I am.....again and again.
I’m 59 and a white, (Irish/Cherokee), male. Lucky for me I was working before 0bama was elected. Luckier for me, I still have my career. Not a good time to be job searching.
This is why I hate looking for a new job today.
Why can't we just have an honest discussion between the job applicant and the employer? If you accept this job you will have to find insurance elsewhere and you can take it or leave it.
Instead there are loaded questions like this all over the place and if you don't read their mind and answer the right way, you never get the job and never have a clue as to why you don't get the job. So you have no basis on which to improve yourself as an applicant to make your self more attractive as a potential employee.
There was a time when that question most likely would have been a harmless effort to determine what benefits you will be seeking if hired. Nowadays, I’d be suspicious of some ulterior motive.
I hope you didn’t sign the application with your FreeRepublic name.
Welcome to the United Socialist State of America!
The new fundamentally changed America is in your face, and on your back.
“and if they are using the answers as a means to disqualify applicants.”
You’ve got the wrong attitude. You should write to corporate officers and thank them for giving you the opportunity to apply for the job. You should be thankful, and work hard for them to ensure that you make them more money than the pay and benefits that they offer you.
The private sector is not a jobs program. If you are going to this job, assuming you get it, with the idea that they are somehow an evil corporation out to screw the employees then you may actually be a Marxist.
You are not owed a job, yet you sound entitled and disgruntled already. Give these guys a break. They are creating jobs in an environment where it is being highly discouraged through government regulation. Maybe unemployment suits you better?
I went back and reapplied with fictitious information just to get a screen grab... the question is neatly tucked in with an Ernst & Young tax credit questionnaire under the questions about having received TANF and are you a US resident.....
Not sure how you got the idea that I have the wrong attitude. Actually I don’t have the “wrong attitude”, what I do have is the common sense to question some of the questions being asked of people in order to APPLY for a job. Please save your lecture for those who game the system and sit on their asses and don’t get up everyday and search for work because I’m not one of them, nor do I get “unemployment”. Questioning the processes is not the same as being a Marxist and your comment is uncalled for.
” Questioning the processes is not the same as being a Marxist and your comment is uncalled for.”
My comment is exactly on target. This employer is making a mistake if they hire you. You do not actually want this job, that much is obvious.
You despise those who are providing you an opportunity to work - because you think that they should somehow tailor the application process to match your sensibilities. You are wrong.
Not participating in their group plan saves them money. Employers typically pay half or more of the premium. All other considerations aside and given two equally qualified candidates, they’d choose the one that was least costly. That can mean salary requirements, benefits or both.
Thank you for making my point.
This is a common question. Not that it doesn’t give us pause, in this day, but I don’t see that an employee has any choice but to answer it.
How you got all that out of Grumpybutt’s post is beyond me. And, I’m a physicist!
Don’t over-think the problem. Doing that always leads to over engineering.
Cheers!
Not sure if it is O-care related or not.
It doesn’t get better at 60...
Check “no” and then once hired, of course, re-evaluate your life and perhaps choose “yes”. If they dump you, say “Yes” to the lawsuit.
If you are former fed worker, just by the size of your salary, you are “over-qualified”.
If your favorite color is not on the screen of choices, i.e., orange, (another psych game), you are “over-qualified”.
If you are over 45, you are “over-qualified”.
If you have prior military experience, you are “over-qualified”, or at least I was, in all of my job hunting in Portland, Oregon.
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