Job Ad Discriminates Against the Useless and Unreliable (spokesman, paycheck, community)

[uggabugga]

you just couldn't make this stuff up

Recruitment agency boss Nicole Mamo was especially careful to ensure her advert for hospital workers did not offend on grounds of race, age or sexual orientation.
However, she hadn't reckoned on discriminating against a wholly different section of the community - the completely useless.

When she ran the ad past a job centre, she was told she couldn't ask for 'reliable' and 'hard-working' applicants because it could be offensive to unreliable people.

[Art123]

I like how the story shows the ad, printed as the lady wanted. Sounds like a she said/she said kind of thing.

Yesterday the Department for Work and Pensions said it could not comment on the conversation Mrs Mamo had with the member of staff at Thetford.

However, a spokesman insisted her original advert had run on the Jobcentre Plus website and on computer terminals in branches.

She added: 'Reliability is important to employers and we welcome ads seeking reliable applicants.'

[blackandproud]

Originally Posted by Art123

I like how the story shows the ad, printed as the lady wanted. Sounds like a she said/she said kind of thing.

Yesterday the Department for Work and Pensions said it could not comment on the conversation Mrs Mamo had with the member of staff at Thetford.

However, a spokesman insisted her original advert had run on the Jobcentre Plus website and on computer terminals in branches.

She added: 'Reliability is important to employers and we welcome ads seeking reliable applicants.'

Maybe i'm missing something. Whats wrong with that?

[AuDiBelle]

Ahh, good old political correctness at its finest. Don't want to offend those lazy deadbeats that only want to show up for a paycheck but not actually work.

[Art123]

Originally Posted by blackandproud

Maybe i'm missing something. Whats wrong with that?

Absolutely nothing. It just looks like they posted her ad, as she originally worded it - looking for someone "reliable," despite what one employee may or may not have said on the phone.

[wedjat]

LOL, classic. That reminds me of something that just happened today at work. I work in staffing for the city & after a typing exam where the applicants had to type 65wpm for a certain position, a woman called after failing the exam. She said that her keyboard was in the incorrect position, she likes it flat, & that's why she failed the typing exam. She wanted a re-do. She also said, after my supervisor called her back & questioned her, that she didn't realize she could touch the equipment because "we were never told" & she didn't realize she could ask questions because "we were never told we could ask questions".....let's just say that I told my supervisor that her totally f'd up excuse & reasoning didn't even warrant a response. Why argue with crazy logic?