i applied for a job at a major jesuit university listed on monster.com inc, last week, and three days later, i received a Monster.com NEWSLETTER for....i kid you not....ELDERLY and DISABLED readers.
Um, huh?
i happen to BE elderly and disabled by certain standards, but who told MONSTER.COM that?
pas de moi!!!
and i'll let you guess....do you think i've also heard from the major jesuit university department advertising the job for which i applied??? Is to laugh!!
i had everything they wanted--in spades--and i live very close to the place, too. i could roll 1 block down the hill most mornings to the bus stop across from the likker store, and 10 minutes later, hop off at the MJU front gate!
and i'll tell you this, too: i may be old and funny, but i can still work circles around all the young punks i currently work with.
my point is, i know i've been a bit sniffy about old crocks who complain about not getting hired, but hey....i was thinking the playing field was still level...that nobody would know how old or stoopid we were just from looking at our resumes (and covers letters with exquisitely correct speling an gramer).
i was wrong. i apologize. the spies have found out all about us, and they're spreading the word.
eff the spies!!!
wot in hey do they know about ANYTHING???
Wednesday, July 02, 2008
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I'd wait to hear from said Jesuit institution. They don't consult monster.com and monster.com doesn't tell them anything about you that you haven't entered into their site. Having been on the recruiting end of things, it's all about the resume. It may take a while too...
Sal
don't you think it's strange that i'd get subscribed to that newsletter? i never asked for it, and i've never sent them my date of birth or said i was deaf (when i was)....i do. you don't have to be paranoid to live in the 21st century, but it helps.....
Yes. not to sound like a drudge, but it is incredibly naive to think that there is not discrimination--in employment among other things--against old people. And it starts while we are still young folks.
THAT's why I'm always saying "play the angles you have." Ain't no level playing anywhere, especially here in USA under the administration of idiot rich boy George Bush. Hello!!!!
Every powerful corporation is "playing its angles" to stay powerful and become more powerful. Us little folks gotta do it too--so long as its legal and don't hurt no one.
I wish I was one of them powerful corporations--then I could hire you--and all the other overlooked talent out there.
Cat
I truly hope you contacted Monster to give them hell for a)sending you unsolicited junk mail, a.k.a. SPAM, and b) being so presumptious as to assume you are "elderly" or "disabled" and c) being so ignornant and presumptious to assume that even if THEY consider you "elderly" or "disabled", that you do. I'd send them an email that'd burn 'em some holes in their monitor...
Perhaps they send that letter to everyone? In the hopes that only the elderly and disabled will bother to read it?
One thing I learned from being on the hiring side of the situation is that job applicants can be Googled - and are! Maybe somebody at Monster or MJU did it and did some extra research?
The D.N.
thanks, everybody, fr your comments. my point is...THERE'S NO PRIVACY ANY MORE. it's not just the gummint that can know everything about us now. (and good luck to them if they want to go listening in on my telephone calls. hee hee. maybe they can wise up the folks who keep after me to renew my car insurance!!)
i don't know why i complain. anybody can look at my blog and see photos of me in all my ancient glory (including the processor dangling off my ear). ha.
happy independence day!
M.E. Don't you sleep? Commenting at 3:19 AM - geesh!
The Google world is a scary place. The use of Adwords and AdSearch is impersonal and creepy all at the same time. I guess it's just another example of how technology conceived to perform one neat task is subverted (ok - that term may be a little paranoid) for other, nefarious purposes.
I guess the lesson here is good is always paired with evil.
As far as the age discrimination goes... any one that uses said technology as well as you do is ageless in my opinion. Anyone who thinks otherwise is just dumb.
ps... Just after I graduated from college thirty years ago, I received an invitation to join A.A.R.P. The only thing I could figure that prompted the invite? My lovely former name...Lucile. I mean really - do you know any Lucile's younger than 85 (excluding Schleck's of course)?
Happy 4th of July from Canada!
Oh hell m.e.! I hear what you're saying and have been on the receiving end of the discrmination stuff for years. It sucks, doesn't it?
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