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Considering that any half-decent job today requires
(1) you to have no gaps in your employment history,
(2) 3 professional letters of recommendation,
and
(3) a perfect credit history
among other requirements, I think an argument could be made that your employer today has more power to control and ruin your life than in any other point in history. All your boss or supervisor has to do is decide that they don't like you for any reason whatsoever, and then they can fire you, decide not to give you a good reference, and you're henceforth doomed to a life of unemployment. In the old days you could at least move to another town and start a new life quite quickly (The fact that the standard of living was lower is irrelevant to the topic at hand). Today everyone is tied to their employer through health care and benefits and through the fact that it is so hard to get a job if you quit your last one.
Then there's the fact that employers are now like the North Korean government. Someone in this subforum mentioned that their co-worker got fired for being in a Facebook picture at a bar. Others in this forum say that employers use data brokers to check a potential employee's Internet habits including which porn sites they visit. A more proper analogy than North Korea might be the Christian idea of God. Employers are like an omniscient entity that records your every thought and deed and uses it to whimsically decide your fate. My every decision is now predicated on whether it might hurt my job prospects some time down the road. This includes such trivial decisions as whether I should "like" something on Facebook. Should I like Ron Paul's fan page? Oh, no! Probably shouldn't, because their might be some nosy, left-wing HR rep who gets me fired after befriending me on Facebook.
Considering that any half-decent job today requires
(1) you to have no gaps in your employment history,
(2) 3 professional letters of recommendation,
and
(3) a perfect credit history
among other requirements, I think an argument could be made that your employer today has more power to control and ruin your life than in any other point in history. All your boss or supervisor has to do is decide that they don't like you for any reason whatsoever, and then they can fire you, decide not to give you a good reference, and you're henceforth doomed to a life of unemployment. In the old days you could at least move to another town and start a new life quite quickly (The fact that the standard of living was lower is irrelevant to the topic at hand). Today everyone is tied to their employer through health care and benefits and through the fact that it is so hard to get a job if you quit your last one.
Then there's the fact that employers are now like the North Korean government. Someone in this subforum mentioned that their co-worker got fired for being in a Facebook picture at a bar. Others in this forum say that employers use data brokers to check a potential employee's Internet habits including which porn sites they visit. A more proper analogy than North Korea might be the Christian idea of God. Employers are like an omniscient entity that records your every thought and deed and uses it to whimsically decide your fate. My every decision is now predicated on whether it might hurt my job prospects some time down the road. This includes such trivial decisions as whether I should "like" something on Facebook. Should I like Ron Paul's fan page? Oh, no! Probably shouldn't, because their might be some nosy, left-wing HR rep who gets me fired after befriending me on Facebook.
False from the outset, and goes downhill from there.
Considering that any half-decent job today requires
(1) you to have no gaps in your employment history,
(2) 3 professional letters of recommendation,
and
(3) a perfect credit history
among other requirements, I think an argument could be made that your employer today has more power to control and ruin your life than in any other point in history. All your boss or supervisor has to do is decide that they don't like you for any reason whatsoever, and then they can fire you, decide not to give you a good reference, and you're henceforth doomed to a life of unemployment. In the old days you could at least move to another town and start a new life quite quickly (The fact that the standard of living was lower is irrelevant to the topic at hand). Today everyone is tied to their employer through health care and benefits and through the fact that it is so hard to get a job if you quit your last one.
Then there's the fact that employers are now like the North Korean government. Someone in this subforum mentioned that their co-worker got fired for being in a Facebook picture at a bar. Others in this forum say that employers use data brokers to check a potential employee's Internet habits including which porn sites they visit. A more proper analogy than North Korea might be the Christian idea of God. Employers are like an omniscient entity that records your every thought and deed and uses it to whimsically decide your fate. My every decision is now predicated on whether it might hurt my job prospects some time down the road. This includes such trivial decisions as whether I should "like" something on Facebook. Should I like Ron Paul's fan page? Oh, no! Probably shouldn't, because their might be some nosy, left-wing HR rep who gets me fired after befriending me on Facebook.
Well, you hit the nail on its proverbial head. I'd challenge the others who have responded negatively to cite specifically how this post is inaccurate.
Very few places this draconian. Many have poor credit and gaps in employment the last several years and are working today. It's an employers market still but the post is an extreme view or example. We are not in North Korea or on planet Mongo being enslaved by Ming.
Not quite. There is a minimum wage, occupational safety and health act, anti discrimination laws, and other regulations. And in some States they cannot run a credit check unless you are handling money.
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