[ColdNoMore]

Originally Posted by Jazuela

I don't get carded when I buy a drink anymore, because people think I'm too old-looking to be under 21. And yet, they won't give me a senior discount at the supermarket because they say I have to be 60, and I don't look old enough to qualify.

When I applied for a desk job last year (before we knew we'd be moving to Florida), the interviewer asked me if I expected to need time off to take care of grandchildren. That one really took me by surprise. I totally didn't see that coming. The answer was no, but I felt resentful that he put me in a position where I'd have to either answer it, or explain why I refused to answer it.

Having performed literally hundreds and hundreds of in-person interviews in my previous life...the question you were asked was against the law.

There's a whole, long list, of questions that can't be legally asked...and that is but one of them.

It IS legal to ask if there's any reason that you might be unable to work weekends, odd shifts or during certain days of the week, but you do NOT have to explain what those reasons are...even if you were to answer 'yes.'

Not to say that the potential employer won't illegally discriminate due to your answers/non-answers, as that sadly still happens all of the time...but they have no right to ask certain questions in the first place.