An eye-opening experience at the eye doctor last week

[NNN0LHI]

Had a little liquid filled bubble on my eye lid so I went to the eye doctor to have him drain it with a syringe.

While there started some small talk with the doctor and he asked me how long I have had one lazy eye. Told him that I have had it since I was a born. Told him my parents never did get it repaired and by the time I had gotten older and asked my own eye doctor about having it repaired then it was too late. I was told that after 20 years of that muscle trying to keep that eye straight it had become stronger than it should actually be. He told me he could straighten it out but because that eye muscle is now so strong there is a very good chance it would tend to pull that eye to far the other direction after the surgery. So I left it alone.

Last week this new eye doctor inquired where I worked while he was working on me. Told him I was retired from Ford. He said I looked young. Told him I hired in at Ford when I was still in high school and took the 30 And Out soon as I could.

He acted kind of befuddled by that and I asked him why? He said companies are no longer hiring someone with the eye defect I had since birth. Said they will only hire the cream of the crop now days. He said people with the eye defect I have I wouldn't have had a chance at getting a good job in today's job market.

That was a startling thing to hear. Just something I have been thinking about.

Don

[Uben]

1. Do you have to be blond-haired and blue-eyed as well?

Friggin Hitler bastards. Well, I've decided Ford's requirements for hiring people should be applied to them as a car maker, as well.
Seeing as I don't like the way some of their products look, I am never, ever going to buy any of their products for the rest of my life.
And, I will will talking shit about Ford from now on.

Fair is fair. They made their rules, I make mine.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Reread my post. He didn't say this was Ford doing this

He said companies were doing this now. He didn't list any specific companies.

Don

[doc03]

2. Probably applies to many other conditions as well. One of the girls at the

coffee shop asked their boss last week when he was going to hire some new help. He said soon as he could find someone that could pass the drug screening. Now they take a hair sample, I hear they can tell if you have taken drugs for months. A few years ago when my company last hired the HR person told me that about 80% failed the drug test. I guess you could be a falling down alcoholic but if you smoked a joint 6 months ago you are out of luck.

on edit: What if you had poppy seed roll 6 months ago?

[MedicalAdmin]

14. Those tests are notorious for false positives.

The published rates I have seen have been as high as 20%. While that doesn't seem like much, keep in mind that this figure doesn't include positives that should be attributed to things like poppy seeds, vitamin c. etc.

Any company that uses them is too stupid to have employees or customers IMO.

[BanzaiBonnie]

4. I'm beginning to wonder

Is there some sort of a eugenics thing going on again? The way I've heard certain language from the 1%, they may still believe some of us are "defective" enough to try and starve us out?

I would likely be considered defective because of a partial cleft lip.


Imagine what would happen if everyone knew that they matter.

[fasttense]

5. They use to have a pretty test for female naval officers.

When you applied, they would take your picture and send it off with your application and test. But not the men, just the women.

Being a retired female naval officer, I was very surprised to hear about it about halfway through my career.

What a bunch of crap.

I hope the Navy had to fight off a ton of law suits.




I am addicted to spell checker. All misspelling are due to withdrawl symptoms.

[RC]

6. FireFox has a built in spell check.

[Dreamer Tatum]

7. Bullshit, I just hired someone with strabismus

Your doctor was talking about fighter pilots or is an idiot.

[NNN0LHI]

8. Hired doing what?

And what was the starting wage?

Don

[Dreamer Tatum]

9. Financial analysis and it doesn't matter what wage nt

[NNN0LHI]

10. A desk job for a wage you don't wish to disclose?

That is fair.



Don

[Dreamer Tatum]

11. The wage is well above US median income

I'm sure you think I hired her to exploit her, but she's a star and is compensated as such. It would be crass to disclose exactly how much.

[ThomWV]

12. Obviously the Doctor was talking out his ass, but equally obvious is that it probably happens

What experience do you think this doctor has that gave him that knowledge? Where did he read it that missed by all of the rest of the world (because if such findings had been in print they would have seen light)? I think he was just talking out his ass but at the same time I am sure that there are employers who hire based on all sorts of illegal personal (and personell) whims.

[Speck Tater]

13. When there are more applicants than jobs the company can be as fussy as they want to be.

What? You don't have a degree in economics? Sorry, all our burger flippers have to have degrees in economics.

[greiner3]

15. I was diagnosed with ambliopia;

However this was not until about age 6. By that time it was too late for the traditional fix; a patch over the good eye so as to force the bad eye to build up its 'strength.'

Funny thing is, I just went to an ophthalmologist and he said I was misdiagnosed. I have (I forget the name) a condition where microscopic particles clog the optic nerve and have built up over the years.

Sorry to go off topic. Well, not so off because I too would fall into the 'Sorry bout that guy' 21st century corporate world hiring, or should I say non hiring.

What was that Philip K. Dik book/movie where the protagonist has a slight genetic defect? He takes over for the DNA uber man who had a terrible skiing accident and became wheelchair bound. The hero has to hide his own DNA in ingenious ways and in the end he does make the trip. My point is that life does imitate art.

[Nay]

16. The movie you refer to was "Gattaca." nt

[firehorse]

17. glaucoma