i love you lab grown diamonds i love you slavery-free chocolate i love you community gardens i love you fact that the insulin patent was sold for $1 i love you locally produced meat and milk i love you streets turned into walkable parks i love you little reminders that Things Do Not Have To Be This Way and there are people working to build a better world!!
While the above is true, there are ways to handle the question if you get asked it in an interview.
Just bc the interviewer ASKS it, doesn’t mean you have to ANSWER it.
“do you have reliable transportation?”
“Yes.”
That’s it. Do not elaborate. Do. Not.
They do not need to know what that type of transportation is. They do not have the RIGHT to ask what that transportation is. Many questions interviewers ask, they ask because they bank on you not knowing it’s illegal.
If they press the issue? Be calm, be polite, but be firm.
“what kind of transportation?”
“Reliable transportation. With respect, you’re not legally allowed to ask that question.”
If they push again? Get firmer.
“I see what you’re doing. You’re attempting to stonewall me into answering a question that you’re not legally allowed to ask, because of preconceived prejudices you may hold. The way you’re handling this issue is proof that you would not be a good fit for me as an employer, and I’m ending the interview.”
…then collect your belongings and fucking WALK OUT.
I was going to put this in the tags, but fuck it. Some companies will also list some horseshit like “must have valid drivers license” as a requirement when the job requires no driving as a way to get around this. Be wary of those folks, too.
I grew up in poverty, and I spent a lot of time very poor as an adult, and that thing where you just strongly assert your rights then get up and walk out of an interview? Yeah, LOL, that doesn’t happen when you have zero money and you desperately need that job. Because the second you assert your rights, you know for a fact that you aren’t getting that job, and no matter how much of an asshole you know that boss will be, generally speaking, any job that pays money is better than no job and no money.
Lie politely. Please lie. Make up a car in advance if you have to so that you can answer questions about it as necessary. Lie politely, blatantly, with a smile on your face. If an interviewer presses you on this, you do not owe that person honesty. You never owe a bad boss (or potential boss) honesty. Do whatever you need to do to get that job.
And then, after you start working there, if anyone asks (and only if they ask!), your previously-reliable totally-not-at-all-fictional car will have unexpectedly broken down and left you taking public transportation. Tragic! What a terrible and unexpected thing to happen! And so terrible and unexpected that it’s taking so long to replace your totally non-fictional car! How horrible!
Also, if at all possible, keep looking for another job. I know it’s really hard to do when you work full-time and you’re exhausted, especially if you have kids, but you can do this.
And yeah, nothing is simple when you’re poor.
This is what I was trying to convey here, but this is more succinct. Like I said, “just walk out” feels like a privileged take that (righteously, if not paternalistically) misses the part about being poor and actually needing a job. So yes, lie. Lie politely, lie creatively, lie with a smile, but if you’re existing in poverty and need a job? Then LIE about having transportation. And don’t feel bad about it either. If an employer illegally asks a question they shouldn’t, then you’re allowed to lie about it. Hell, if they try to fire you about it later, threaten to take them to court for illegally asking to begin with. In the meantime, put some food in your belly. Catch up on a few bills. Buy some warm clothes. Feed that baby. You can work everything else out later.
kids these days don’t know the first thing about internet safety, getting their discord accounts stolen through running random exe files [hard cut to me filling the family computer with viruses in pursuit of “free dragon games”]
“Don’t kids these days know better than to not download files off shady websites?” I say as I download and confidently run game patches I got off the world’s sketchiest site.
these kids need to take fewer risks and consider taking basic steps of precaution before doing something dangerous [making the sign of the cross before opening an obscure torrent with three seeders and four people in the russian thread asking if it’s real]
for real once you realize that you can actually wear whatever you want and call yourself whatever name and pronouns you want and have whatever interests you want and be whatever gender you want your life gets so much better and more fun
somehow knowing that tumblr is being kept around mostly as a testing ground for advertisers and corporations doesn’t even make me feel that exploited, because every social media site is exploitive. but being basically lab rats to test shit on before it’s refined for use in polite society is by far the funniest possible way to be exploited.
#yeah maybe i’m a marketing lab rat but at least my dash is in fucking chronological order
this ad appeared right after i read this post.
so yeah, they’re testing something, but in true lab rat fashion we have no fucking clue what
Why is every single one of you tagging this saying “oh just like horseshoe crabs” why the hell do you all know how horseshoe crabs mate off the top of your heads?
What the fuck do you mean “because of the lesbian horseshoe crabs”
i am the antichrist
