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0 points_swfb10mo ago0 comments

I was declined from a job recently specifically because I wrote a blog post about my history with depression and medication for it [1]. That's not me justifying after the fact, they actually told me this.

I took down most of the posts on my blog that were personal as a result. Most of the stuff on there now is just technical stuff that I'm not too worried about being attached to my name.

[1] To be clear, the blog post was only talking about prescribed medication, I've never done any illegal drugs and I've never been an alcoholic, I'm not speaking in code for "self medicating".

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OkayPhysicist10mo ago· 1 in thread

Hope you got that in writing, because that is a hell of a ADA lawsuit you've got there.

_swfbOP10mo ago

This company doesn't have fifteen employees so I don't think I'd have much recourse regardless, but it was over the phone and it wasn't recorded. It would be my word against theirs. I did end up reporting them to the NYC Department of Labor, though.

Of course, they were just the ones stupid enough to be honest about it. I have no idea how many jobs I've been declined for where they just gave me a generic form letter.

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