The thing that baffles me in this thread is the nonchalance that posters have when saying: "people need to be self-filtering at the interview stage", "just work

The thing that baffles me in this thread is the nonchalance that posters have when saying: "people need to be self-filtering at the interview stage", "just work somewhere else". Apparently for something that will actively discriminate on a large portion of your potential employees it needs to be some sort of protected category. If I open an office space where you need to climb a ladder to get in, I'll probably get sued because I'm actively discriminating against handicapped workers. Why can't it be the same with a dog allergy (or just plain fear)? The other thing that bugs me is that engineers usually have a good range of choices as to where they work, but I highly doubt that the delivery person from UPS has any choice but to deliver to SparkFun or get fired. As it turns out some of them were actually bitten. It all boils down to this 'at will employment' nonsense IMHO…