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.
I agree with you 100%. Your attitude is fine, and I'd be suspicious too of questions like this in the current political and regulatory environment.
It's not a level playing field between employers and applicants anymore because of government interference, and you're right to be concerned.
Welcome to a Brave New World, where to question the motivations or actions of an employer (or potential employer)for any reason, in any way, is “Marxism”.
Shocking, isn’t it, to discover that you have been a “Marxist” all these years, when you actually though you were a typical, patriotic American?
But don’t feel to badly: I’ve been a “job-creator” for 40 years, and lately I’ve realized I must be a “Marxist” too, by the standards of “Be properly grateful for whatever you betters offer”.
Likely though, you do have a problem: lots of the places where you apply for work *are* looking for people so desperately grateful for work, on any terms and under and conditions, that they will *never* question what they are asked to do, or why - and the fact that you are even daring to ask the question automatically “disqualifies” you for the job.
Does not have to be that way, here’s how a *real* Capitalist (and a hyper-successful) thinks about hiring people who “question authority”:
“I want us to listen to these dissenters because they may intend to tell you why we can’t do something, but if you listen hard, what they’re really telling you is what you must do to get something done.”
- Bob Pittman, chairman and chief executive of Clear Channel
Communications
Finding the job that lets you use you talents and insights may not be easy - in fact, it may be very hard - and you may have to compromise your principles in the meantime.
But those employers do exist, and refusing to accept that you should be “grateful” for the opportunity to work for some other kind does not make someone a “Marxist” - quite the opposite, it means that they are not one of the compliant, drifting mass of the “faux-employed”- the people resigned to working “private-sector” jobs that would not exist were it not for massive taxpayer subsidies such as Medicaid, SNAP, and the like.
There are some jobs where noticing odd things and questioning is pretty much required.
But in this case it is just a tax credit for the company question. If you have health insurance of your own then they can claim full coverage without having to subsidize your insurance.
But no they are not using it to screen people out. If they did that, especially since it is an electronic application, it would quickly become statistically apparent and they would find themselves in hot water with fedgov.