Tinted Windows and Job Seekers...
 

Besides personality and drug tests, companies are starting to observe their new job candidates when they come onto the company premises for an interview.

Tinted driver & front passengers windows are viewed as someone who knows the rules...but those rules don't apply to them, and thereby going to be potential problem employees.

I asked my friend working in HR...what if they take the bus??

This is what happens when HR wonks are given actual authority. How about evaluating prospects on their qualifications?

Naaaaaaah. That'd be too easy, right?

Ummm, what? Tinted windows are legal here, and are in most states. Do they whip out the reflectivity meter before or after the interview?

Tinted windows are damn near mandatory here. Many new car lots tint all the windows as soon as they get them!

Gotta be a California thing, if it's true.

California does not allow any aftermarket tints on the front side windows, regardless of the degree of tint, and factory tints must allow at least 70% visible light transmission. Obviously, fewer and fewer owners follow this law and the police generally ignore it unless they cannot clearly see the front seat passengers through the tint--or they want an excuse to pull you over. By this standard, that HR dept. will have few "qualified" applicants.

I've heard stories about HR looking for car seats in the cars of female candidates while they are interviewing, so this would not surprise me.

LOL, when I worked for Bank of New Zealand the best Sys Prog we ever had arrived dressed as a bikie. We never got him to wear a tie but he sure was a good systems programer.

No wonder our country is soo damn broken. Letting nerdy do nothing college graduates who have probably never done a real days work in their life, pre judge others performance by their car customization choices. Hell in a bucket I tell ya...

The paranoia and foolishness is thick in this thread. Ought to be in PARF with the other whacko threads.

Yeah, I took the bait.

Illegal as hell if they didn't hire based on that. But it happens...

IMO, you sometimes can tell a lot about someone by how they take care of their vehicle.

I hired a guy who turned out to be a complete slob. He could do the job(driving for us in a commercial truck) but I had to constantly remind him to clean up after himself.

One of my employees even took a pic of his vehicle and he had fast food wrappers, cigarette boxes, and trash that filled up the passenger side of his car.

My wife is an HR manager but looking at a car doesn't give her any useful info for hiring at her place.

I think it's the first impression kind of thing. When I apply for a job, I always make sure to not drive my truck, because it looks like a farm truck and I don't drive the 911 or Mercedes because it makes me look like a pretentious prick. I drive the boxster, it does just kind of blend into a parking lot

I just had a little heated debate with one of the guys who helps write the State inspection laws here in Pa. Currently, window tint is not a vehicle safety inspection issue, but you can still be ticketed for it.
He is pushing hard to add it back to the state inspection procedure, and it is pretty (it was at one time) , and make any aftermarket window tint, ANYWHERE on the vehicle illegal, and an instant fail .
You should see all the other " safety " items they are adding to the list of things to check for vehicles state inspection .
I asked him his reasoning behind it, and he told me that they are worried about the safety of the police officers that cannot see in cars they are stopping.
I should have kept my mouth shut, but I simply stated my opinion that they have no business looking in my vehicle, and we both know that this has nothing to do with making vehicles that travel our roads safer.
I guess window tint will be the next big evil our society will have to legislate our way out of
Sorry to hi jack the thread.

They interview for hair dresser jobs?

Sorry, I couldn't resist! Just kidding of course.

I prefer interior designer thank you very much,and no need to be sorry I like jokes, even ones directed at me. :D

Here in Va we can not reject for tint unless it is all bubbled and distorts the drivers view. The law falls on the officer on the street to determine if it is too dark. In court there has to be a number from the tint-o-meter for the charges to stick. It is kind of like the muffler thing. As long as the exhaust is properly mounted, doesn't leak, and properly exits the vehicle properly it passes state inspection. but state law requires a muffler. Go figure

For me the way I view a potential employee depends on the job I'm filling. For a position like sales, where making a good first impression is important to the job, I would watch them arrive and leave and every move they make in between.

Ha, I worked for VW in the early 90's. The guy who ran the shop was a crusty mean old fart who ran his ship like it was the Marines .
I daily drove a 1976 Corvette back then, and was also long hair. The whole way through the interview when he hired me, he kept asking me how much weed I sold to buy that Corvette. I kept assuring him, two jobs since high school .
I agree you can tell a lot by a person's car, but window tint?