i called to set up an interview with a company and when the lady called me back she asked if ....?

Question

i had children. why do you think she would ask something like that. this job has nothing to do with kids whatsoever. it's a part time job calling ppl to schedule appointments.

Answer 1

i assist my boss with the hiring process and I know there are certain questions human resources or the interviewee is not supposed to ask. They can't ask if you are married or anything like that. A lot of personal questions are not allowed. That should not be her concern. The only thing she should have been concerned about is how well you can do the job

Answer 2

An employer can not ask if you are married, have children, have financial difficulties. This shows that she is not a business professional. I would be causes with that company, I see discrimination written on the wall.

I use to do many, many interviews, and what I could ask was if you are require to work overtime without a notice would that be a problem for you? If the person had small children at home or at a child care facility they would say 'yes'. Then I could say well this job might not be the right one for you because we never know the day before what the volume will be today.

She brew it, she probably is thinking that if you have small kids at home they would be making noise when you are talking to clients.

The next time when someone ask you that question say to them 'why'? If they say my boss wants to know, then you say to them it does not matter if I have or do not have children, that has nothing to do with the job that I am applying for.

I can remember way back when I applied for a job I had just got married. They called me back for the second interview and I did not get the job. I called and asked why, the lady said it had nothing to do with the interview and you did very well on the written test. Then I said why didn't get offer the job? She said OH, Mr X said you probably will get pregnant within one year and then they would have to find someone else. Today that would be grounds for a law suit for discrimanation.

Answer 3

That can be a gray area indeed believe it or not.

Here's a perspective you can consider adopting...

Sometimes women ask other women this question because they are instinctively and sincerely concerned for the well-being of children and attempt to ensure, Do you really want to do this sort of work?, which is for your sake and not necessarily due to laxity or callousness about labor laws on the part of the interviewer or receptionist who is establishing a queue of candidates for possible hiring.

Maybe the greatest downside is that she assumes you have children in the first place, which begs the question, Would she ask this same question of a man who is pursuing the same job?

I would say that a man is less likely to ask such a question if he were the interviewer or receptionist, and in that context, there does evidence a double standard. Men stem away from drama in the first place and are rather disinterested (detached) from many things -- not through insensitivity but because that is the way of the male atom naturally.

But on this directly, such disparities are what prompted legislators to clear the air by instituting laws.

The misfortune to this is, the more laws that "leaders" impose on a society, the more constrained and negative it becomes... And the more negative it becomes, the more reliant it becomes on laws: you would agree this can result in an unceasing and compounding cycle -- like interest latched on to an expense that becomes debt, adding up endlessly.

In a society, when such as this sustains and then reaches a critical mass, a strict form of socialism ensues, which is called Communism, which in effect hands over one's initiative to the State to be responsible for what society does. No one thinks and acts for him- or herself anymore nor can they: why?-- because 'that' is the 'law.'

In any case, maybe the beauty of this all -- you might say -- is that you have the freedom to take issue and to move on to greener pasteurs. You grow. And, interestingly, she will grow, too -- especially if she is indeed discriminatory in terms of labor laws, for sooner or later she will be stopped at once !

That again is the beauty of it all, of relative freedom -- Natural law adjusts everything so that things achieve of balance, and this by very dynamic means.

Answer 4

that is an illegal question
but good luck trying to prove she ever asked it.

She was probably trying to find out if you will be taking off of work to nurse sick kids, go to doctors appointments etc.
Unfortunately sometimes people with kids have higher rates of being absent from work than the people without them.
Sounds like she is a real bytch and I doubt you would enjoy working for her!

Answer 5

if there will be kids running around screaming in the background or u mite not be able 2 make it 2 work on time one day b/c of daycare or somthin

o and dont listen 2 thoes idiots...u cant sue....incase they didnt know this already GUYS CAN HAVE KIDS TOO(not give birth but "have possesion" of them)....so its nothin 2 do with gender

Answer 6

That's an illegal question for her to ask you, as it is grounds for gender discrimination. It seems like she wants to know if you are going to be reliable or constantly having to take time off to attend to your kids.

The law prohibits employers from discriminating based on gender. She wouldn't either be able to ask you if you were pregnant or if you plan to get pregnant. It is an illegal question of her to ask you. Unfortunately, you wouldn't gain much from suing her except wasting your time in court and winning a pittance of principle-based damages, if you can even prove it..