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I am a consultant in computer security and Risk. I just applied to a medium sized company with around 18,000 employees. I was the most invasive questionnaire I have seen. Added to the usual race/gender/nationality/veteran/disability Now there is sexual orientation with a long list of choices And a new social mobility section. Asking about parents schooling, social status, and income levels. If they were considered blue color, managerial, professional and a few others. Also if they/you qualified for public assistance growing up. This is just getting nuts. | ||
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quarter MOA visionary |
So sorry for you loss (of privacy). It's bad out there, if it is ever to work for yourself > DO IT! | |||
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I can simplify it. Check one box below: Democrat or Republican All I need to know. | |||
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I would pen in N/A. If I didnt want the job - pen in NOYFB! What is "social mobility"? "No matter where you go - there you are" | |||
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Official forum SIG Pro enthusiast |
I don’t think I would want to work somewhere that is that intrusive. Fuck them and fuck that kind of questionnaire. That is none of their damn business and they damned well know it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Eschew Obfuscation |
They are actually doing you a favor by letting you know what their corporate culture is like before you've wasted any more of your time. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Void Where Prohibited |
Did you have to interview with the CDO (Chief Diversity Officer) ? I'm sure they have one. "If Gun Control worked, Chicago would look like Mayberry, not Thunderdome" - Cam Edwards | |||
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I thought it was illegal to ask that stuff...? Or at least not discuss it in interviews? "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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Official forum SIG Pro enthusiast |
It should be. That only opens the door for potential discrimination. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The price of liberty and even of common humanity is eternal vigilance | |||
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Sounds like a real outlier. I have been applying to many companies lately and haven't seen anything like that. | |||
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אַרְיֵה |
Check the box that says "All of the above." הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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This ! | |||
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The gov't. is allowed to ask lots of questions no one else would be allowed to ask. Basically, anything that can be considered a protected class can be asked on a job application with the excuse that it's for gov't. compliance. A lot of that info can be used against you, obviously not admitted to by the company, but the gov't. makes it all possible. They sure do look out for us all. | |||
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His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm. |
I hope you aren't so desperate for work that you would even consider applying for this job. | |||
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Notice the questions now circle around anything and everything 'but' those skills and abilities that would contribute to how well you could accomplish the actual job. Wonder why virtually every other country in the world is kicking our ass? I've said it before and I'll say it again, there is no bigger waste of company funding and floor space than HR departments. They're manned by liberal morons who have no clue what the company they work for actually does, nor do they have any interest in learning. If you eliminated HR departments in their entirety and simply flipped a coin or rolled some dice to select applicants you'd be no worse off while saving 10's if not 100's of thousands of dollars a year. ----------------------------- Guns are awesome because they shoot solid lead freedom. Every man should have several guns. And several dogs, because a man with a cat is a woman. Kurt Schlichter | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Sounds like a presecurity type questionnaire. Is it possible the position requires a DoD clearance, Clarence? Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Oh stewardess, I speak jive. |
No Fucking Way That's some crazy shit, even for a tech job. | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
I'm sorry you're being confronted with this obscene insane crap. Yet another reason I'm thankful for having retired 14 years ago. If I was being asked this I'm quite certain my response would mightly offend these snowflake princes and princesses. That is if I stuck around long enough to even bother with their questionaire other that to write where they could put it before leaving. Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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Optimistic Cynic |
Wait, you don't understand. Discrimination is OK if it is for the right reasons. | |||
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I'd fill out the normal questions (name, address, phone, qualifications, experience, training) and leave the rest of the shit blank. But then, you have to ask yourself, do you really want to work for a company that would ask such questions? | |||
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