Originally Posted by
tandempower
If an employer required LCF to qualify for a given job, you and some others would cry about the freedom to drive. It doesn't bother you if an employer requires a candidate drive/own a personal motor vehicle to get hired, but it would bother you tremendously if one required candidates not to own/drive one to get hired.
What if employers told applicants that they were required to submit to random car-checks, like drug testing, and if they were found to own a car, they would face immediate termination? Would you accept that?
As long as all that info is presented up front, either in a job listing or at the interview, no problem.
It makes me think of when I was looking into changing careers many years ago. I came across plenty of job listings requiring a 4 year college degree and other job listings that flatly said "Afraid of heights? Don't apply".
If any job listing required living car free and I wasn't already living car free, I'd look at other job listings.
Edit to add, another thought:
What if you get the LCF job and after a year, their building lease is up and they move 10 miles further from your home?
I remember a job I got in 1987, worked there 1 year and then the whole shop moved. I lived close to the original location, but did not live close to the new location. Good thing I was a motorcyclist at the time which allowed me to keep that job.
(BTW, is a full time motorcyclist Living Car Free?)