This I do NOT believe:
Jan. 27th, 2011 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
At the risk of perverting a part of the legacy of Edward R. Murrow:
Shaving one's head in emotional support of cancer patients amongst their friends and/or family should not be grounds for anyone to be fired from their job.
Some days, I wish I'd done this for Dad in his last months. Reading the article in the link, I now wonder how some prospective employers would've reacted at interview time, as I was between day-jobs at that point back in the fall and winter of 2002.
(Granted, it's likely hard - possibly illegal - to come right out and ask a job candidate: "Skinhead or cancer in the family?" I'll have to ask some of my job-search assistance agency contacts about this to refresh my memory.)
Shaving one's head in emotional support of cancer patients amongst their friends and/or family should not be grounds for anyone to be fired from their job.
Some days, I wish I'd done this for Dad in his last months. Reading the article in the link, I now wonder how some prospective employers would've reacted at interview time, as I was between day-jobs at that point back in the fall and winter of 2002.
(Granted, it's likely hard - possibly illegal - to come right out and ask a job candidate: "Skinhead or cancer in the family?" I'll have to ask some of my job-search assistance agency contacts about this to refresh my memory.)