[ale] Job requirements

[Calvin Harrigan]

On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 14:45, Irv Mullins wrote:
> On Sunday 27 July 2003 10:43 am, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> > Welcome to the new world of business...
> > Shame really, but it's the face of things to come.
> > All those old fashioned ideals of honesty, integrity, and hard work have
> > gone the way of the dodo bird.
> > Just look at the business landscape today.
> 
> Has the thought occurred to anyone that these unrealistic and sometimes 
> impossible requirements may be there just so the recruiter / hiring person 
> can say in a polite way, "sorry, you don't meet our requirementts", rather 
> than say, "Sorry, you're too [old | young]  [black | [white | asian | latin]  
> [female | male] [straight | gay] for us"?
> 
> "Well, your honor, Calvin didn't meet our requirements for 20 years of 
> .NET experience"
> 
> "But you hired someone with even less experience than Calvin...."
> 
> "Yes sir, but she lied. She was dismissed as soon as we found out"
> (translation: when we found out about this lawsuit)
> 
This differs from what I said how?
-- 
Calvin Harrigan <charrig at earthlink.net>

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