Monday, July 15, 2013

Barbara Hall and the Ontario "Human Rights" Commission on the Prowl for More Capacity

I guess now that the hate speech business is drying up-shrivelled like an ugly, earnest, radical left wing prune wearing socks and sandals and smelling like patchouli, Barbara Hall is looking for more business.

Behold: "Demanding" Canadian experience might be mean, and hateful and breach Ontario's 'human rights' code. 

What a massive load of dog squeeze.

People who want to work-work.

My grandparents stepped off a boat from Europe and nobody offered them anything. They made their own way. Where they had no jobs, they peddled, they rented out rooms, they worked as tailors, they opened stores.

Nobody offered government translation services from Yiddish or Polish or Russian to English. Nobody offered free English classes. It was off the boat and start making money.

So forgive me if I find it hard to cough up sympathy for someone who sent out 3 resumes without getting an interview. I have interviewed for positions with over a hundred applicants. So?

I know lots of people who get turned down plenty. It's rough, but that's the way life is.

Those who wish to work will always find work. Period.

And far from being racist-the real reason a lot of resumes go right into the "delete" file is because people have made terrible spelling mistakes, errors in grammar, and/or they are applying blindly for things that they are completely unqualified (or over qualified) for. Those are real reasons that people get disqualified from the initial search.

But, it's much easier I guess to cry foul than to get a native English speaker, or someone who understands that you cannot use text message short forms or symbols (I'm looking at you, Mr. Ampersand) on resumes, to actually read over the resume.