I don’t suppose you told them “I don’t use bricks”?

Our lead developer, who had more than 25 years experience.

“Have you ever been convicted of a crime?”

Way back...I went to a job fair. I had 3 lined up. I was amped for one of them as it was what I wanted to do, the others I wasn’t sure about, but I’d still go.

This happened to me when temping all the time. I would show up at a job, where they say they need someone a week to help with the giant backlog. I work steadily for a day, and they realize that their own staff are just lazy. I find out the next day that I had cleared the backlog and they don’t need me back.

Interviewed at a local Radio Shack by the assistant manager. The interview went well and he pronounced me hired pending a quick meet and greet with the store manager. I interviewed with him on a Friday and he wanted me to start on Monday so he's trying to figure out how to get with his manager. Oh Wait! This weekend…

I’ve been told something like that, though it was unfortunately after I had been working there a few months. He was a manager for 20 years, and he said “I can tell that you’re highly intelligent, so here’s some advice... get out of this place as fast as you can or you’ll be stuck here for 20 years like me.” Not…

When I retired from the Air Force I interviewed for a job instructing on the airplane I had just retired from. I interviewed with the site manager, who was a guy I had flown with on the same airplane for several years. Did a phone interview with the home office. Got the job. Now I work one building away from where I…

Reposting what another poster linked to, straight from the EEOC - it’s not illegal but may be used as “evidence” of discrimination (until they find out the hiree has kids too, etc.): “Although state and federal equal opportunity laws do not clearly forbid employers from making pre-employment inquiries that relate to,…

LOL. They’re missing out on some of the hardest working people out there. So many folks I know start out at a community college because they didn’t have the resources for the 4-year college at the get-go, so they worked their butts off and value their education.

I should add that at one of my early jobs, we were interviewing candidates for a secretarial-type position. On a day that I wasn’t in the office, one candidate was interviewed, and (IIRC) complained to someone later that my idiot coworker had asked her whether she had kids. My bosses somehow blamed *me* as well for…

It’s shocking, but I’ve had to correct MANY HR professionals on this point.

Thank you for posting that; I didn’t have a link at hand. Lots of people think it’s illegal to even ask when it’s actually just stupid and opens you up to hostility and fears of potential lawsuits.

Maybe don’t go to monster.com for legal advice? It’s 100% legal to ask those questions. It is 100% illegal to use them in hiring decisions. Pretty stupid to ask them at all, but not illegal.

Its not illegal to ASK, but it is illegal to discriminate based on that information, so if you do not hire someone, AND you asked those questions, then you could be sued. However if you asked the questions and HIRED them, you did not discriminate, so you can not be sued.

I think that’s true, but once you’ve been asked, then it’s easier to make a claim that you were discriminated against for one of those reasons. Which is why any decent HR department will tell their interviewers not to ask those questions.

The questions themselves are legal, but any decent HR office is going to scream at you for asking them because it opens the organization up to easy lawsuits.