Major League Baseball is denying stories that it is conducting background checks on its umpires that involve sending investigators to hometowns and interviewing neighbors. Umpires are irate that their neighbors are being asked inappropriate questions such as whether the umpires belong to the Ku Klux Klan.
“The questions that we found out are being asked are about beating wives, marijuana use and extravagant parties,” said John Hirshbeck, president of the World Umpires Association. “And then finally with this whole thing about the Ku Klux Klan. You get someone from security, shows his credentials and starts asking these kind of questions, and right away, what’s the neighbor going to think other than the umpire is in trouble, he’s done something wrong and he’s going to lose his job.”
I can understand the need to do background checks as part of the hiring process. But if these allegations by WUA are true, then MLB is way out of line. Confirm work history and talk to references, if you must, but leave out the interrogation tactics.
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