A woman went to Google’s Manhattan offices to apply for a position. She’d already had a phone interview. After lunch, “Ms G” says seven of roughly 20 people were escorted out. All seven were overweight; everyone who stayed was thin. [Jezebel]
A woman went to Google’s Manhattan offices to apply for a position. She’d already had a phone interview. After lunch, “Ms G” says seven of roughly 20 people were escorted out. All seven were overweight; everyone who stayed was thin. [Jezebel]
Mr Odd
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 12:56 PMWhat’s the problem?
olearymo
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 4:36 PMWell, regardless of whether you think overweight people deserve consideration or not, it’s illegal to discriminate when hiring someone for a job.
Good enough explanation? Or do you wanna try some more sarcasm?
DK Son
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 4:39 PMI dunno. Seems to be a big problem though.
Terence D
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 4:55 PMIt’s a weighty matter.
Franz
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 6:08 PMToo big a problem for google to deal with it seems.
Kent
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 6:42 PMEven if true, there’s no way it could be proven.
Travis
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 8:54 PMJust hire everyone as a model/engineer and you’re set. You can tell them how fat or thin they have to be. fixed.
Andre S
Friday, June 24, 2011 at 10:28 PMI’ve heard of this happening, its to do with workcover claims, highly overweight people are more likely to make a claim which looses the company money, even if they are the best candidate for a job, they will cost significantly more money (if they do claim) and wont be able to work as much
(not trying to start a flamewar)
m
Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 3:29 PMWho cares? They didn’t get the job… Big deal.
Tsengan
Sunday, June 26, 2011 at 9:36 PMOh yeah, I’m sure it was because they were fat. The “evidence” is right there.