They can not hire you because they think you look funny. First impressions are everything. If you walk in and reek of smoke, they'll be thinking "this person stinks, I can't wait until this interview is over."
Mark David Brown wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 01:55:01PM -0500, Nicholas Wheeler wrote: >>> Ideal candidate will only use real sugar in his/her coffee. Ideal >>> candidate will also like coffee. >>> >>> Gregory >> >> So is it legal to say, "Ideal candidate will be heterosexual."? > > Heh. You could probably be successfully sued for hiring discrimination for > any job requirement or "ideal" feature that wasn't demonstratably related > to the performance of the job. > > Ones like sexual orientation, marital status, race or ethnicity have extra > protections to basically try and keep you from even justifying them. > > Demanding a non-smoker is probably on pretty shaky legal ground. > > The interviewing guidelines we have at work have an amazing list of > questions we are not to ask, even if they just give a hint at possible > discrimination: "What kind of name is ___", or "Was that a Catholic > school?" -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
