RE: Previous employer contacts

["L." <beantown_tw -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Hi there Greg,

Without trying to sound overly doom and gloom because
that's really not my style, let me ask a few general
but related questions:

How do you feel about being "pre-approved" for a
million dollars from every tom dick and harry credit
agency?

How do you feel about health insurers excluding
pre-existing conditions? 

How do you feel with all of the genetic testing
becoming available if you should be required to submit
to genetic testing before receiving a marriage
license?
(Not too far a leap from some of the blood tests
required in some states...)

Don't you feel that there is a point at which YOU
should maintain at least the slightest bit of control
over what's happening in your world? I mean seriously,
evaluate my qualifications and the degree to which I
would or would not fit into the corporate environment
BEFORE you evaluate the rest of it. All of the other
companies I have heard of or worked for required these
tests AFTER they have chosen you for a positionbut
BEFORE you're allowed to show up for your first day on
the job.

Perhaps I was not clear -- my problem is not with the
testing, but it's with the fact that I don't think
it's appropriate to allow people to pry into my
private realm before we've even discussed the
poisition at any length. Seriously, would you like to
know that someone out there has printouts of
everything about you after they've just offered you a
ridiculous salary or some other employment situation
that you can't accept? 

I think both parties ought to be at a point where they
BOTH feel comfortable joining together before
performing such tests. When they want these tests at
the time of application, the applicant has no way to
know if he/she will even find the job, salary,
colleagues, etc. acceptable, so chances are he/she has
allowed the corporation to invade his/her life
completely for naught. Under such circumstances, the
applicant is going into the situation as such an
underdog (for lack of a better word) that it makes me
skeptical that work life at such a company wouldn't
continue to be this way throughout employment there.
If they don't respect you before you get in the door,
they sure as heck won't afterwards, either.

Anyway -- I just thought the thread was apropos.
Naturally there are job applicants who are willing to
give their SSN online using Internet Explorer or
submit to invasive checks before applying to a job; if
there weren't, then companies couldn't get away with
it. I'm just not one of them.

___________________________________
Greg wrote:
L:

If you didn't have a problem with them performing
various background
checks on you after you get hired, why would you have
a problem with
them performing these checks before you get hired? It
doesn't make sense
from a company's perspective to do background checks
on a prospective
employee after they have been hired.

By the way, I do agree with you about corporate
America trying to own
their employees.



		
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