<p>“Who are you going to recommend to not do business with them? You have a contact at trucking distributors? or the military? Doubtful.”
- For what it’s worth, my current work is associated with the government. I’m afraid I probably shouldn’t say any more than that.</p>
<p>"And why are you afraid to work at a place that wants its employees to be social with one another or have personalities? I would think that people would want to work in a social yet productive environment. Right??? "
- Well, according to some training material I recently viewed, organizations can get in a lot of trouble for making hiring decisions based on factors not having to do with qualifications (education, experience, etc.) That would include things like age, gender, race, and yes, personality. Naturally, poor communication skills of a documented nature are a qualification (or rather a disqualification) but I imagine by personality you mean: jokes, laughs at jokes, will go to a bar with the office buddies, etc. I’d be surprised if that’s even legal (BFOQ).</p>
<p>Naturally it has little to do with my job but I am ethically tempted to report this to my organization’s ethics division. They encourage that kind of thing, actually. Government contracts have been lost for much less.</p>