It pisses me off that employers can go poking around into a job applicant’s or employee’s credit history and refuse to hire them/fire them, if they’ve got shitty credit.  The arguement was that if an employee is broke enough, they just might be capable of stealing from the company.  Talk about some subjective profiling.  fuckers

How about this, they need the money because they’re broke enough to work for a dumbass company like yours. 

Things have a way of “happening” around me.  I’ll be in a situation where I think there’s no way out then suddenly a new door opens for me.  Take this credit check thing, for instance.  Just this morning I was reading yet another article in the paper about illegal discrimination against job applicants and the thought occurred to me – what they really need to make illegal is doing credit checks, especially in this economy where people are losing their jobs, cars, homes and are in way too deep with the credit card companies.

Low and behold, not 15 minutes ago, I noticed an email message from Workforce Week, an employment newsletter I subscribe to.  So I go to the site and my jaw dropped to my chest, much like my tits lay there, sticking to it in this CA heat.  Fucking FINALLY!  Someone’s decided to take action against employment credit checks.  Illinois Bars Job Discrimination Based on Credit History.  It’s about damn time.

“A job seeker’s ability to earn a decent living should not depend on how well they are weathering the greatest economic recession since the 1930s,” Quinn said in a statement. “This law will stop employers from denying a job or promotion based on information that is not an indicator of a person’s character or ability to do a job well.”

I hope more states are not far behind.