Coders Edge
  
Immoral Job Requirements

on kick-ya-when-you're down
       job requirements

Here is a new requirement that I've
heard about lately:  you need to have
a job to be considered for a new one.
Now, if this requirement is not legal,
clear it is immoral.  Don't most relgions
suggest that we help the needy?  Isn't
someone who has been out of work needy?
So instead we give jobs to H1B and not
hire the unemployed?

If you call me for a job and give me
the requirement that I need to already be
working I will not be nice to you.  I will
ask you if you feel no shame.  I will be
angry.

OK, maybe I won't be angry but I will tell
you what I think of that requirement.

Here is another clue:  A company that would
have such a policy is run by people with
an inferior morality.  Why would I want to
work for such a company?  Maybe to improve
the quality of that company and lift up
the putrid business to some state of 
reputibility?  That would be nice.

When you need a job you want to compromise.
You tend to 'settle'.  Some people show
their worse face at these times.  They act
as if they hold all of the cards.  If they
hold all of the cards then why don't they
already have their employees?

In any case I can't let this all get to me.
I could stand here and say 'thank gawd I'm
not like them.'  But then I am like the 
hypocrite from the parable that we read in
church a couple of weeks ago.  I know, infact
that I have my own serious problems of character
that I need to work on.  Exploiting people
who are looking for honest work is not one
of my character flaws.  I have other ones
and I keep them away from the work-place as
much as I can.

If someone is immoral and they want to hire you
then do you refuse the job?  If one takes too
much offense at the cupidity and total
misanthrophy of some folks, then one has no
hope of curing those folks of their dis-ease
of not being curtious and not following a
meaningful code of ethics.

Yes, sometimes one must work for unethical
folks who you know to watch for the dagger
in their hand.  Many of us are loathe to use
a dagger  (this is a allegory) to dispatch
the situation.  But when confronted with
the daggers of immoral job requirements,
descrimination, actual bald-faced insults,
we have the dagger too.

The dagger is this column.  I am saying it 
outloud:  If you call me with a job and one
of the requirements of getting hired is
that I already have a job you are  presenting
an immoral job requirement.  I will not holdback
in telling you how I feel about that.

I may, if fact, publish your name here
and state outloud for the world to hear
what you are doing.

You can crawl around in your off-shored
offices and cold-call American's looking for
work with kick-you-in-the-groin requirements,
Go ahead.  All that you do to the least
you do to Him.

So go right ahead.



  WP. Oct 26, 2010