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From: zrm@eddie.MIT.EDU (Zigurd R. Mednieks)
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.misc,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Lieing to get a job
Message-ID: <7067@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 12:25:28 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  3 12:25:28 1987
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In article <1319@houdi.UUCP> marty1@houdi.UUCP (M.BRILLIANT) writes:
>In article <158@tijc02.UUCP>, pjs269@tijc02.UUCP writes:
>> When I was interviewing for a job ...
>> One of the questions on the application was (paraphrased):
>> 
>> 	Would you be willing to work on a defense contract?
>> 
>> I answered this question honestly as "no".  During the interview the
>> interviewer spent five minutes asking me why.....

A job is not a right. If I flushed a prospective employee because he doesn't
like country music, it would be my perogative. Because of the hostile and
litigous atmostphere where every yahoo who gets jilted by a big company runs
for the ACLU, employers keep their reasons for rejection close to the vest.

If the author of the above dosn't want to work on defense contracts, he
has to accept that any defense contractor with a whit of sense won't
hire him. In today's economy, where any college educated person can
get a good job, whining about your political preference keeping you
from working for a defence contractor sounds like you want to bite the
hand that feeds you and keep doing so with impunity, not just basic
constitutional protection.

If you want to lie in order to get a job, you have to weigh the
following: If you lie to someone like me, and I find out, there will
be hell to pay. Most employment contracts specify severe consequesces
for such deception, and I would follow up to the harshest extent. If
you lie to some soft headed type who doesn't really care, you have to
consider that you have just sold your personal political views for the
difference between the salary you have, and the salary you would have
in a job that wasn't sensitive to your views. You will have sold out
cheaply.

-Zigurd