How's That New Girl Working Out For You, Anyway?

[millysdaughter]

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Comments

[kristalsawesome]

There's always this disconnect between 'the military is great for this town, we want them here' and 'but you'll just move away soon'. As if any other employee couldn't decide to do that... (yes, personal experience talking here)

[millysdaughter]

Yes.

[static_abyss]

I used to work on the hiring side of things at this company, so I internally started counting all the ways your interviewer had messed up as I was reading. But, something I learned on the job was that there is nothing illegal about asking a person what they like to do on the weekends. And most people with kids, just naturally mention their children, and that's how companies get you. Which is to say, even if one wanted to find a way to get back at larger companies, they have loopholes and resources and time that most other people just don't. And it sucks that they felt like the could just tell you what they did and that they thought you just had to deal with it. But you are better off not working with them.

[millysdaughter]

Yes-- I was asked, point blank "Are you pregnant?" and "Are you planning to have more kids?" at multiple job interviews.

[rayaso]

It sounds like it would have been a miserable job. Employers should go out of their way to hire military spouses, not discriminate against them.

[millysdaughter]

Yes. Things are better now for finding jobs -- the employers cannot be so picky as they were then -- in the early 80s, there were literally 100 applications for every decent job opening -- now, they are lucky to get three.