Background check and being a gun owner cost me a great job.

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

I assume your Internet gun-related postings were tasteful in nature.

One thing to keep in mind is that you are also judged by the company you keep. Even if his posts were perfectly fine, being a board with "questionable" posts may be enough to knock someone out of the running.

The job market is saturated with job seekers and hiring mistakes are expensive. That means employers can be as selective as they want.

 

[blowfeld]

Gun owner is not a protected class. If they did not hire or fired you because you were black, white ect. or were Catholic, or because you were a woman or old or handy capped, that is protected. I can not give you a job or rent a home to you because you are blond, or have a mustache or own guns. Nothing you can do about that but suck it up. I can just say I don't like plumbers and will not rent to plumbers and its not discrimination that the gov. sees as a protected class.

 

[withdrawn34]

And unfortunately, even if gun ownership was a protected class, HR could still just make up some flippant official excuse for not hiring or even firing you.

 

[rori]

It is becoming more and more common for large and not so large corporations to not hire and even fire people for riding motorcycles, skydiving, scuba diving, motor racing and yes owning guns and hunting. They feel its dangerous to do those and other things and that they have the right to control your every move. Havent heard of anyone coming out ahead in a lawsuit yet.

 

[WinThePennant]

It is becoming more and more common for large and not so large corporations to not hire and even fire people for riding motorcycles, skydiving, scuba diving, motor racing and yes owning guns and hunting. They feel its dangerous to do those and other things and that they have the right to control your every move. Havent heard of anyone coming out ahead in a lawsuit yet.

You are CORRECT.

Yet another reason why we need a public option. When you engage in "high risk" activity, employers only see large medical bills and higher insurance costs coming their way.

 

[PPGMD]

the only reason they have a valid 30.06 sign at their facility is because i informed my fiancee of the laws and rules that need to be followed, so if it wasn't for me their circle/line cross over a picture of a gun sign wouldn't be valid.

Why would you do that? Did you want another place where you couldn't carry?

Anyways that is why it's important to have some level of a firewall between your work, your hobbies, and your online identity. Companies using internet search services are becoming increasingly common.

I never tell anyone at work that I own guns or shoot. I don't tell them my private email address that I use for my online forums.

 

[22-rimfire]

Start you own business... your business, your rules....

 

[rfwobbly]

+1 on the Bingo!

You know the law, and carry a gun. I can't think of a worse employee profile.

You look like a Tea Party type too. Big trouble there. You might plaster the plant bulletin boards promoting Congressional candidates with actual accounting degrees.


Trouble !!

 

[WinThePennant]

There is no question but that US Corporations want SLAVES and not self-reliant free thinkers working for them.