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Sports Illustrated Too Much Information Summary

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How much information should we have to give our employers? How much testing and background checking should employers be allowed to do to their employees? The incident With Eddy Curry has brought these questions to the public mind Richard Hoffer has stated in his article in Sports Illustrated Too Much Information That he believes that the Eddy Curry incident represented an invasion of privacy and a possible threat to the American worker. However, this is not true, the so called issue has no reason to be a problem and there is no reason for it to affect the American worker.
In the Eddy Curry incident Chicago Bulls player Eddy Curry became faint while playing. Due to the possibility of losing one of their players, the Chicago Bulls wanted a DNA …show more content…

Hoffer words that the increase of screening of athletes could cause other workers to have to go through the same, however there is no reason for this to happen. Sport leagues want to know so much about their players because they want to know how much they can achieve, if they are cheating, if they will likely be a good person to put on their merchandise, and how long they will likely be able to play, among other things. Other companies and businesses do not have to worry about these things. Construction companies only want to know if you can move heavy machinery, while hospitals only want to know if you have had the proper training, and taxi companies only want to know if it is safe to put others in a car with you. They do not care if you will make good merchandise or will be with them for the the next ten years, so they do not need all of the tests the league want to have their players take. Hoffer says that “You can’t blame owners for wanting to find out as much as they can. But how sporting is it if management refuses, at the expense of workers privacy and dignity, to take any chances of its own?” (Hoffer 5). Hoffer is right that the leagues are doing this to reduce their risks, but every time they hire a new player they are always taking a huge risk. With a construction or taxi company hiring a person who is not right for the job is not such a huge problem because they can just lay that person off and hire someone else. For the leagues however, this is not an option, if they hire someone who is not right for the job it is much worse for them because that person represents a much larger percentage the workforce that can not be used anymore and they can not lay them off ether because they have probably signed a multi-year contract. This means that the league has to keep this peron and pay them despite not being able to play

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