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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by phkahler on Saturday January 21, 2017 @07:29PM (#13452894)
Most companies have multiple employees, where most employees only have one employer. You are 1/n to them and they are everything to you. The power differential is staggering particularly for a cable company.
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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by lend000 on Saturday January 21, 2017 @07:32PM (#13452910)
> You are 1/n to them and they are everything to you

This is false! You are 1/n to them and they are 1/m to you. Where n=number of job seekers and m=number of employers. Both numbers are very high.

EDIT: You can have many employers over your lifetime, and you are not bound to any one during your job search. m does not equal 1.

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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by sidlls on Saturday January 21, 2017 @08:38PM (#13453089)
Most of the time m is a number smaller than 10. For many small businesses n might be the same order of magnitude, but for often it is at least an order of magnitude greater. The ratios just aren't close in most cases.
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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by pmiller2 on Saturday January 21, 2017 @08:30PM (#13453066)
No, m=1, typically, because most people only have/can have one employer.
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