Employer / HR having a photocopy of your passport?

What I am struggling is at my age over 50 how bad work has become and how many lies are being told.

Health and well being blabber from HR but having to tolerate excessively loud music? ( Just turn down the music and I have all the well being in the world…)

Sorry, but I wasn't built for that, it's often beyond my capabilites.

Diversity and inclusion and endless blabber about gays and lesbians, but the older grey harid white man not wanted? At age 50 sexuality is certainly something else than for those in their 20ies or 30ies.

All things not having anything to do anymore with the task at hand and why I was hired.

Even worse employees working or wanting to work for a cruise travel company but not even knowing basic facts about geography endlessly dragging out the training objective is a bit of a nightmare, - that together with the ultra-low salary.

I honestly don't have much understanding for all that. I am happy to keep my mouth shut on certain things, but if it's something that prevents me from doing the actual job from being hired, then that's an issue and a big one.

Back when I joined the workfoce in the early 90ies all these things were not even remotely an issue. ( They would back then have fired the colleague who excessively displayed his homosexuality or played extra loud music in the office or lacked basic knowledge in an industry he or she wanted to work in….) Now it's all the other way around.

You may understand this or not.

But that's all besides the point, if it's about passport / documents the employer holds on you.

I think you should try that yourself.

Apparently it couldn't be turned down. It was sort of centrally managed. I don't know why this was the way it was.

What I was unaware at the time is that there are apparently headsets around, which can completely block the sound.

The headset I was given by the company, I had even difficulty understanding the other party in a conference call.

Why do I think that? Well of one does these kind of dodgy things, one will or might do other dodgy things. And then one reads so much about identity theft however these thoughts might be overthinking things. And on identity theft the creativity of the criminal mind seems endless and beyond believe for those of us with a normal way of thinking.

And then there are all sorts of games they could try, like pretend I am me, call up the passport office and report the passport as stolen, it then get's cancelled and if the real me is at passport control, I'd face certain issues……

Not beyond the possibility, I think, however I doubt that they'd do that.

And yes it was in general a way younger crowd, and yes some of the other older employees also didn't like that music thing.

In the end, I see it this way, I was hired for a specific task and this on grounds of a certain experience and track record. I clearly wasn't hired to do this kind of job in an environment where I could hardly speak at normal volume to a colleague sitting around 2 meters away from me or even worse having trouble understanding somebody in a video conference.

From a legal and contract point of view the employer clearly failed.

The only thing I can say to those who are in favour of chart music and that level of loudness, is that if 50 people want something and the 51st one doesn't then he either needs to accept or go.

You also need help. To me it's completely normal to think, what else could they do. Identity theft isn't a completely new and unknown thing.

I'd say the discussion is a bit pointless with your attitude.

I'd suggest you apply for a rather technical role and try to do that job with chart and rap music and a strong bass sound blaring at your where you can hardly think clearly and not even participate in a video conference properly.

If you think that's normal or within the scope of anybody's capability you clearly need help.