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If employees choose their employers freely, what are interviews for?
by foobarbazqux 13y ago
If employees choose their employers freely, what are interviews for?
- rosser 13y agoIf people choose their spouses freely, what is dating for?
- foobarbazqux 13y agoExactly?
- moocowduckquack 13y agoWell, they are partly for helping you choose your employer. Job interviews are 2 sided and I personally take the attitude that any employer who thinks otherwise has failed the interview process and is therefore ineligible for the position of employing me.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoI like your choice of metasyntactic variables.
- moocowduckquack 13y agoI bet you say that to all the boys.
- Myrmornis 13y agoAny chance you could stop asking silly questions? The employees choose freely to apply for work there was (very obviously) what I meant.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoIt may be what you meant, but it wasn't what I read. Anyway, fine. If I apply to companies A and B, where A is ethical and B is unethical, but only B offers me a job, which I accept, have I freely chosen my employer? Let's assume these are the only companies available.
- Myrmornis 13y agoYes you freely applied to work for a company you believed to be unethical. But if there are only two companies available to work for and one is unethical you should probably move elsewhere. Just to be clear, my statement was aimed at educated people in countries with some choice of employment. It wasn't intended as an arch right-wing statement. If poverty or political circumstances remove your freedom to choose then that would invalidate what I said.
- flyinRyan 13y agoThere is truth to the fact that we can't completely choose who we work for. But none the less, you are responsible for the choices you make. If a man is repeatedly raped and abused as a child we still hold him accountable as a man who rapes someone.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoI basically am against discrimination on the basis of one's employer for the same principles behind any individual freedom. I might not like your work, but I respect that you are a taxpayer in the same state as me and as such contribute to our ability to meet in relative peace in the first place, and I won't condone organized discrimination against you on the basis of your legal work. If anything, I will petition the state to make your work illegal.
- flyinRyan 13y agoI disagree. It's dangerous to let people slide because "they're just doing their job". People "just doing their job" are the enablers. Without them, none of the really serious man-made tragedies of history would have been possible.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoI have no problem with protesting the work people do. I just have a problem with locking them out of the protest.
- flyinRyan 13y agoNo one is locking them out of protesting in general. Just our protest.
- foobarbazqux 13y agoWell, it seems we have incompatible ethics. Either you violate mine or I violate yours.