Unfair Hiring Practices and Discrimination

[MyFinalRest]

^people don't always do it to move up. I myself never stayed long at shitty low paying job, but some people move just to move. They seriously sometimes take less pay and pack up and move thousands of miles just for the sake of moving to another job. Some of these folks leave decent and fun places to live to arrive at the total shithole fuckzone of a town I live in. They're running from something...

 

[double ewe]

It's a big difference though being well educated compared to being a high school drop out. If you're a high school drop out, working at mcdonalds for 10 years isn't going to help you out much if you're applying for a high salary job

well of course. but in that case you're getting rejected because of your qualifications, not discrimination.

in this day and age, job hopping is a way to move up. For example, you work 2 years at one bank and they won't promote you, go apply at another bank with that 2 years experience and you can get the same job that you couldn't get before.

I'll keep that magical 2 year number in mind. It does sound about right.

this is very accurate for the banking industry (and probably many others). tons of turnover because you can almost always get bigger raises and promotions by taking a job somewhere else than by sticking around.

 

[DrunkardsDream]

This is also true. At one time in my life I needed a job more than I needed my pride and I was hired because I left my college education off my resume and application.

Yes it's true if you are applying for ANY job that's say a min wage job, or something where you do not have to be qualified or skilled DO NOT put down that you have a degree, no matter what it's in, or that you attended a college or university at all.

 

[manboychef]

I think there are a lot of financial, government, and healthcare jobs that should not exist so as to make valuable productive jobs more prevelant. Are financial sector in the states is so bloated with leeches and charlatans that it has become more of a drain than a help.

If we all took a harder look at who we give bailouts and bonuses to in the financial sector we can probably pay the people in entry level or minimum wage jobs more.

It shouldn't be minimum wage (which it is disgusting that corporations need to be compelled to pay the minimum) it should be living wage. Try living on minimum wage forty hours a week as a single person, let alone as a single parent.