Latest Entry: Criminal Stupidity
About three weeks ago I received a phone call regarding a job I was applying for. It went something like this (certain details witheld for obvious reasons): “This is rather awkward, I thought we’d already hired you, but “Stacey” told us not to because she feels your disability might be a factor sometime down the road. I’m sorry, we’ve been trying to assemble a team for almost six months now and you’re the best applicant I’ve seen. But “Stacey” does know more about this and I’ve trusted her with the program.”
Now I don’t know if this applies in most places, but where I live denying someone a job because of a disability is illegal discrimination. It’s seen as the same as refusing to hire people if they’re black. That’s not to say it doesn’t happen, people are refused jobs all the time due to prejudice, myself included. The difference is the employer is usually smart enough to give an excuse like “I just didn’t think he was right for the job,” or “We’ve found someone who was a better fit.” It takes some serious balls to outright admit that you’ve refused to hire someone for reasons that are blatantly illegal. Well, either that or serious stupidity. After a dismissal like that, I could’ve ruined Stacey’s career with very little effort. But for a number of reasons (I didn’t need that hassle, it might cause some people I kinda like to be caught in the legal crossfire, etc) I decided to let it go. But the best part was yet to come. Remember how they’d been trying to assemble a team for over six months? Well I can only assume they haven’t found anyone since, because last night “Stacey” emailed me asking me if I’d like to come back for a second interview.
A second interview? I don’t even know what to say to that. Under what circumstances could she possibly imagine I would say yes to something like that? Either this lady is so stupid she just doesn’t grasp how fucked up that dismissal was, or she assumes I’m hard up for money and has the nerve to ask me to apply for the same job again, despite her earlier illegal and insulting rejection. Either way this chick has about as much sense as a stack of bricks.
Osprey
