been a long time, interview discrimination.

OK, it has been a long, long time since my last post. It seems i have been way too busy to post for some time now. And my last few post were crap (simply copy and pasted arguments I have had on face-book.
Things are going well at school, in fact, they are going really well. Ayasha is back in school full time now at UNT as well. A funny thing is: we are making less money now than we have ever made before, even back when we had crappy jobs as cashiers and bareistas (sp) but we are doing better than ever before! We cut way down on a number of things, including our housing bill, and now can afford to go to school and every now and then treat ourselves to something we have been wanting to get for a long time. Next on our list of things we want/need is a bed. The bed we are using now is over 20 years old and it feels like it! When I say bed, I mean mattress! Gross huh?
I am looking back at this blog and while I don't feel bad or apologetic about anything I have said in it (it is just my thoughts and how I really feel) I am concerned that I will soon be looking for a new job and my employers will search and Google me and this blog will certainly come up. I wonder if because of my beliefs, which are certainly not mainstream (at least in Texas) will affect my ability to get a job. I would hope not, religious or ideological discrimination is illegal but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen every day.
Another thing I have been thinking about is how my weight may affect my ability to get a job. When someone sees a big fat guy, one of the last things they think of is "hard working" or "self driven". It can be a challenge during the interview process. I use to work at a company that would only hire girls that they thought were attractive, they would be terrible at their jobs, but at least they were good looking was their thoughts. It was disgusting and I felt really bad once I learned of the practice.
There was a particular occasion that a girl's resume "floated" around the office to all of the male members. My job was to look her up on the then popular site myspace. She was very attractive and I showed her page to my boss.
One of previous work experiences was from a company that was called something like ABC productions, and immediately the immature males in my office felt that she worked at a porn production company and that she herself was a porn star. That, coupled with the printed off pictures that my boss printed from her myspace spread across everyone in the company. This poor girl hadn't even come in for an interview yet but was already being endorsed by my male coworkers as they thought that our office really needed and attractive female ex-porn star. It got so bad that the poor girl wasn't even chosen for an interview because can you imagine what would happen if she were to ever come to work there? She would never be able to live down the rumor that she was a porn star. She didn't get a call back from us and I don't think she ever got a reason why.
This girl wasn't a porn star, ABC productions turned out to be something like a sign shop, but the point of the story is that even though privacy laws were broken no one outside of the office ever knew about it. Just because my views of liberalism and atheism and my obesity are protected from work place discrimination doesn't mean they won't be discriminated against. I may never even know if they were.

After writing this I thought of how I am lucky that these are the only discriminating factors that I have to deal with but many people have to deal with others such as: being a woman; being black or otherwise not white; being gay; being young/old; being Muslim or otherwise not Christian (lets face it, right now it is easier to be atheist that to be Muslim on the scale of how much idiots in America hate you); and many others.