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I found a job that would have been good for me to apply for, except for one little clause that pisses me off to no end.
"If you have ever been terminated from a previous position, do NOT apply."
Yup, even if I was the most qualified applicant (which I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have been) they would still turn me away because I was at one time *gasp* fired. OK, I get it that you don't want the deadbeats who continually screw up, and I was fired with cause so I guess that might be a little bit of a valid argument, but this is a right to work state. Translation, it is legal to fire someone without cause. They could be turning away people who were fired just because the boss was having a bad day and decided he wanted to randomly cut his staff... worse, even with cause, being gay is legal cause for termination in this state, this company by proxy could be guilty of discriminating (legally I might add, but that's a different thread) against gays and lesbians by refusing to hire them because that's why they were fired.
So considering that it's a right to work state it would have bothered me a little less if they had at least said "if you have ever been terminated, with cause,...", but that still doesn't get back to the broader issue that people change. In my case I was fired because I was an idiot and sent a vulgar email to the IT manager complaining about the equipment at my workstation (which in fairness, was pretty bad equipment, but I recognize that I wasn't fired for complaining about bad equipment, but for being extremely unprofessional in doing so). Does that then automatically make me unqualified for another job, even though that lesson has been learned? Apparently so... call me bitter, but I hope they get some unqualified dumbass straight out of high school who has never had a job before to never have been fired and ends up washing out after the third week, serves them right for basing such a large portion of their hiring policy on something that in the long run can be quite trivial.
"If you have ever been terminated from a previous position, do NOT apply."
Yup, even if I was the most qualified applicant (which I'll be honest, I probably wouldn't have been) they would still turn me away because I was at one time *gasp* fired. OK, I get it that you don't want the deadbeats who continually screw up, and I was fired with cause so I guess that might be a little bit of a valid argument, but this is a right to work state. Translation, it is legal to fire someone without cause. They could be turning away people who were fired just because the boss was having a bad day and decided he wanted to randomly cut his staff... worse, even with cause, being gay is legal cause for termination in this state, this company by proxy could be guilty of discriminating (legally I might add, but that's a different thread) against gays and lesbians by refusing to hire them because that's why they were fired.
So considering that it's a right to work state it would have bothered me a little less if they had at least said "if you have ever been terminated, with cause,...", but that still doesn't get back to the broader issue that people change. In my case I was fired because I was an idiot and sent a vulgar email to the IT manager complaining about the equipment at my workstation (which in fairness, was pretty bad equipment, but I recognize that I wasn't fired for complaining about bad equipment, but for being extremely unprofessional in doing so). Does that then automatically make me unqualified for another job, even though that lesson has been learned? Apparently so... call me bitter, but I hope they get some unqualified dumbass straight out of high school who has never had a job before to never have been fired and ends up washing out after the third week, serves them right for basing such a large portion of their hiring policy on something that in the long run can be quite trivial.
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