Fiction Isn't Fair: Difference between revisions
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* The whole Tritter storyarc in ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''.
** Most of what House himself does qualifies. An established flaw of Cuddy, his direct superior, is that she turns a blind eye to the laws, policy, and safety regulations he breaks in literally every episode. Especially obvious after the third season when he is required to pick a new diagnostic team, choosing his employees not based on merit but on how much they interest him. He tells Cuddy and the candidates this, to their faces. Unfair hiring practices are very illegal, especially in hospitals where unqualified workers regularly kill people by accident. Both House and Cuddy are rather fortunate to still have their jobs.
*** Unless House is making hiring decisions based on legally protected categories (race, sex, national origin, religion, disability status, etc.), he is not breaking any US employment laws. Right To Work includes Right To Hire And/Or Fire For Any Random Reason (save for actual civil rights violations).
*** He keeps one candidate around in part because he's a black Mormon, one in part because she's a lesbian and one despite the fact that he doesn't have a medical degree or any real training. Surely ''those'' qualify.
**** If he was ''excluding'' them on those categories, certainly. However, since those are the very qualities that are getting them ''picked'', House could and almost certainly would defend his actions as being part of some affirmative action type program... which are entirely legal.
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