Posted on 06/19/2002 5:44:22 PM PDT by clamper1797
Here's the story ... I got to the airport to fly to "an other state" for an interview. My flight was delayed so I started to go thru my pre-employment packet. I found in this packet a notice that the company not only wanted to drug test which I had grudgingly agreed to but they also wanted a credit report and a driving record. All this for a circuit design job which has NOTHING to do witn finance or driving. I called the company and asked the HR person, " what does credit and driving have to do with designing circuitry ???". The HR person said that they ask for that info from everybody. I said that when I applied for my government Top Secret clearance I was not asked for my credit report and driving record why do you need them. I also said that the only thing your company has not asked for is my voting record. I then told the HR lady that I could NOT work for a company that would ask such questions. What would your company do next ... read my email ... bug my office ??? I then cancelled the interview and gave my ticket back to the counter and asked for my bag that I checked in. The counter person took me out to the little baggage train ON THE TARMAC NEXT TO THE AIRPLANE WITHOUT GOING THRU SECURITY and helped me go thru all the bags on it to find mine. BTW I went thru the security gate with my 3 inch pocket knife and car keys IN MY POCKET. I meant to put them in my check-in bag but forgot.
Maybe not always, but take it from a landlord it can be.
Right on. I'm with you. But to then speak of this potential employer as being out of line for trying. Look, have you noticed that certain retail stores you enter have that big sign about drug screening all applicants. Have you noticed also that the average IQ of the staff in that store seems lower than other similar stores? Not to say that people who do drugs are smarter, just that the store now has a significantly smaller pool of prospective employees. I know of a restaurant that was randomly testing three employees every weekend. Every monday for five weeks there would be three less employees. The policy was changed after five weeks. They'd have literally gone out of business had they continued the policy. Don't think for a minute that policies such aas these don't come with costs for all companies.
Cram it? How about a polite no thank you?
Now I realize mistakes are made, inaccuracies exist and people change. I would never deny an application due only to a TRW report without asking about it and offering a chance to explain.
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