[Gllug] OT: Health on job applications

[Wulf Forrester-Barker]

I've known a couple of people who work in the secretarial /
administrative fields and have suffered RSI related problems. They've
downplayed or ignored that on application forms, got new jobs that
involve a fair amount of keyboard work as part of the job description
and have felt very stressed when the problems recurred but they were
ashamed to seek the help the companies offered, because it would have
run the risk of their economical use of the truth coming to light.

I think honesty is a much better policy - if a company is going to
discriminate you on the basis of sickness on the application form,
there's every chance they will discriminate against you when that
sickness recurrs once you're employed with them. If something of your
past history comes out, they would have everything needed to dismiss
you... and how can you be sure it won't?

My brother rang me up this weekend to let me know that he'd discovered
his next door neighbour was someone I knew ten years ago. For me, that
was great news... but what if I had secrets that this person might
reveal.

Since the past can always catch up with you, I think even common sense
points to honesty being the best way forward. I'd like companies that
engage in unfair discrimination to select themselves out of the pool of
potential employers ;-)

Wulf


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