Mark Fijman
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633 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Nov 2011
last heard Jan 2012
Mark Fijman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The fellow says no and he gets terminated.
Uh and what happened is he filed a charge with the EEO C
the uh which filed a lawsuit on his behalf and
Because the uh the company would not accommodate this religious practice uh in some way, um
the company ended up having to settle this for approximately a hundred and fifty thousand dollars and they had to revise their uh their dress code policy to include the option of religious accommodation in in a case just like that.
Yeah, well I mean first of all the the the impact of social media has has just been enormous and uh it it's moving so fast I I'm sure five years down the road what constitutes social media will probably be much different than what it is today.
Um
I still find it unbelievable
what people will openly post about themselves.
Um you know, and I think to some extent it's a prevalent but mistaken mindset that you still can be anonymous on the internet.
Um, but you know, it's it's so common now people posting uh pictures of themselves drunk or doing drugs or other things on the internet that it it's almost become a stereotype.
Um
It would seem
that uh social media would be uh an HR person or an employer's dream come true for screening job candidates because it's it's very cheap
And it's very easy.
Uh, you know, you can call up the you know, punch in the person's name, uh, look at their page and and you can see if there are any red flags that might make you say, Yeah, I think we'll we'll pass on this person.
Um, I actually had a had a case
That uh
Where this this happened, um the plaintiff was a was a pretty young guy and he portrayed himself in the lawsuit as a very law abiding, straight arrow type of fellow and and there was a law enforcement
um aspect of this case.
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