People Are Roasting This Business That Claims They Don’t Hire Liberals Because They Make Decisions Based On Their Emotions And Not Logic
There are several topics many have by now learned not to broach—ever—especially with particular people who get overly passionate (and unreasonable) about them. Politics is one of them.
Now, doing this on a personal level alone often leads to bad things happening to good people, but it’s nothing but mind-blowing when someone one-ups this by proactively bringing it into their businesses.
One politically oriented job ad that’s been spotted, posted, and reposted on the internet has been drawing people’s attention to a great extent.
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People have been slamming this “we do not hire liberals” sign that recently resurfaced on the internet
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So, back in mid-2016, a picture of a job advertisement annex, if you can call it that, hit the internet. It’s not an actual job ad, it doesn’t look like it, but it’s definitely a portion of it.
Now, it’s not clear what particular job this is for, nor is it clear what company is hiring. But that doesn’t really matter. What matters, though, is the very particular and only requirement for the job, and that is to not be a liberal. Yep. That happened.
The sign goes on to say that this isn’t because this particular business disagrees with liberal political views, but rather because this job needs “superior reasoning, logic, and reading comprehension skills,” which, in “their experience,” liberals don’t really have.
But businesses making bad hiring choices aren’t new, as there have been others in the past
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According to them, what liberals do have is emotional decision-making skills and making decisions in emotional ways can prove very detrimental to the business. The note concludes with regrets of any inconvenience this might cause, as if that really sounds genuine given everything before it.
It’s safe to speculate that the note was quite likely created during or around the 2016 Clinton vs. Trump elections, which were some of the most divided and controversial elections in US history.
Since 2016, this picture has resurfaced on multiple occasions, mostly on sites like Reddit and as anti-liberal propaganda, until it finally popped up in r/AntiWork a few months back. It was posted by Reddit user u/EggsAndMilquetoast, and got almost 60,000 upvotes (81% positive) with 40+ Reddit awards.
In nearly all cases, such signs stir up huge backlash and debates as it did this time too
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This also in turn sparked a lot of appropriate reactions from commenters. Some said while it claimed that liberals are emotional, it’s ironic to think that the note itself is passive-aggressive, an extremely emotional thing to do.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Various people pointed out that their poor hiring practices, their “experience,” and just overall self-destructive rhetoric are actually working against them because it’s a red flag for potential employees.
But the main issue here is discrimination—selective hiring of people based on seemingly empirical assumptions that are so overgeneralized that it just screams prejudice. And that always speaks well of a workplace, doesn’t it?
Here’s how the internet reacted to not hiring liberals
Whatever the case may be, this is one of many bad choices businesses have made throughout the years. Bored Panda has covered several such mistakes, including this one juice company that was looking for people who “don’t cry”, and this one other business that created a hiring sign that begged more questions than it actually answers.
But what are your thoughts on not hiring liberals and them being too emotional for certain lines of work? Or share anything, really, all ideas matter. Do that in the comment section below!
The writing between the lines on these notices are: 'liberals are not wanted because they aren't stupid enough to allow me to exploit them"
I'd rather have smart emotional employees than stupid stoic employees.
Its also illegal to openly state you are discriminating based on political views... not on applicants skills. A motivated individual with a lawyer would sue your asses off
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It almost seems that the Fox News types are being deliberately ironic, but I honestly think they are not capable of recognizing it.
The people who think liberals are too emotional are the ones who lost their s--t when Cleveland's baseball team decided to change their name.
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"We don't hire liberals" said every slave master ever. IMHO, of course.
Conservatives seem to always forget that without liberals, they would fail to exist.
They have the "libtards" to thank for the 40-hour work week, minimum wage laws, overtime pay, work benefits, paid vacation, paid sick days, public schools, public works, public libraries, public transit, municipal and county police and fire departments, women's enfranchisement...
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Wow...I've rarely found that ultraconservative people have any tendency toward logic, and are often reading and math impaired so mess up any sort of paperwork. And the ones who do work very hard don't think about what they're doing and tend to cause more damage than productivity much of the time. And many don't work very hard, or work against the company because they tend to be extremely selfish. Additionally they have a hard time understanding why they should follow procedures, ethical rules, etc. because they lack any sense of a big picture for the company. And the most dramatic people I ever worked with were very conservative people -- every little setback or change just threw them for a loop, no mental or emotional flexibility, you see. Yes, it would be very easy to come up with a poster for a business who doesn't want to hire ultraconservatives because they want good workers.
Your problem is you mistakenly implied that liberals are good at anything.
Load More Replies... Business 101. There is no such thing as an enemy, only another person to make money with. (Rejecting business dealings based on personal bias is detrimental overall. Example: floral shop refuses gay wedding, get picketed, small business increase from anti-gays, business gets vandalized by everyone else costing more. Lesson: don't be racist, sexist, classist.)
But PLEASE don't vandalize a business even if it is discriminatory! That just makes them martyrs.
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I'm sure they'll be soon complaining that no one wants to work for them.
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The sign talking about reading comprehension, and you falsely claim "What matters, though, is the very particular and only requirement for the job, and that is to not be a liberal." - oh, the irony.
I'm pretty sure the title is wrong though. Not one person is in disbelief over something we have come to expect from Trump trash.
Hilarious. This guy was at the 1/6 riot and posted a selfie https://fortune.com/2021/02/01/barproducts-boycott-ceo-selfie-capitol-riots-trump/.
🤔 isn’t it usually the trumpets (trump fans) who are the most emotional? I say that as a question, I mean it as an observation.
Oh yeah, they're afraid of everything. Unstable snowflakes!
Load More Replies... Americas is doomed. But everywhere else might be too. But definitely America.
What do I think? I think that sign is stupid and I think refusing to hire people because of their ideology is ridiculous and it's just as stupid as saying "no conservatives allowed".
Who had a giant tantrum and stormed the capitol because they lost a fair election?
Spotted the Trump trash! Damn it's getting too easy, you should come up with new schtick. Or some new buzzwords.
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It depends on what kind of work they need done. Throughout the years, I've learnt you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Monkeys aren't necessarily bad though compared to some "humans" I've worked with.
One of the programmers I worked with was a liberal, very liberal. Really smart funny guy, and obviously logic-oriented. He was a talented coder and had worked there for like 25 years. But one day he got physical with someone who said something he didn't agree with, got in the guy's face yelling at him and started rapping on his chest with his finger and, boom, he got fired. Escorted out that very day. He'd behaved like that towards my boyfriend once too, yelling at him and shaking his fist in his face. Kinda surprising.
This is anecdotal. What does it have to do w anything?
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Oh you believe that old saw that the media is liberal do you? Probably because Fox news told you and they would never lie. Here is a fact that I bet you never learned from the liberal media - the national debt increases significantly with a Republican president and tends to go down with a Democratic president. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/ You know how they say that Democrats are the “tax and spend party” that is correct but what the “liberal” media never points out is that spending does not decrease significantly under Republicans so instead they should be called the “debt and spend” party but for some reason the “liberal” media never uses that term. I wonder why?
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The writing between the lines on these notices are: 'liberals are not wanted because they aren't stupid enough to allow me to exploit them"
I'd rather have smart emotional employees than stupid stoic employees.
Its also illegal to openly state you are discriminating based on political views... not on applicants skills. A motivated individual with a lawyer would sue your asses off
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Load More Replies... It almost seems that the Fox News types are being deliberately ironic, but I honestly think they are not capable of recognizing it.
The people who think liberals are too emotional are the ones who lost their s--t when Cleveland's baseball team decided to change their name.
Load More Replies... "We don't hire liberals" said every slave master ever. IMHO, of course.
Conservatives seem to always forget that without liberals, they would fail to exist.
They have the "libtards" to thank for the 40-hour work week, minimum wage laws, overtime pay, work benefits, paid vacation, paid sick days, public schools, public works, public libraries, public transit, municipal and county police and fire departments, women's enfranchisement...
Load More Replies... Wow...I've rarely found that ultraconservative people have any tendency toward logic, and are often reading and math impaired so mess up any sort of paperwork. And the ones who do work very hard don't think about what they're doing and tend to cause more damage than productivity much of the time. And many don't work very hard, or work against the company because they tend to be extremely selfish. Additionally they have a hard time understanding why they should follow procedures, ethical rules, etc. because they lack any sense of a big picture for the company. And the most dramatic people I ever worked with were very conservative people -- every little setback or change just threw them for a loop, no mental or emotional flexibility, you see. Yes, it would be very easy to come up with a poster for a business who doesn't want to hire ultraconservatives because they want good workers.
Your problem is you mistakenly implied that liberals are good at anything.
Load More Replies... Business 101. There is no such thing as an enemy, only another person to make money with. (Rejecting business dealings based on personal bias is detrimental overall. Example: floral shop refuses gay wedding, get picketed, small business increase from anti-gays, business gets vandalized by everyone else costing more. Lesson: don't be racist, sexist, classist.)
But PLEASE don't vandalize a business even if it is discriminatory! That just makes them martyrs.
Load More Replies... I'm sure they'll be soon complaining that no one wants to work for them.
Load More Replies... The sign talking about reading comprehension, and you falsely claim "What matters, though, is the very particular and only requirement for the job, and that is to not be a liberal." - oh, the irony.
I'm pretty sure the title is wrong though. Not one person is in disbelief over something we have come to expect from Trump trash.
Hilarious. This guy was at the 1/6 riot and posted a selfie https://fortune.com/2021/02/01/barproducts-boycott-ceo-selfie-capitol-riots-trump/.
🤔 isn’t it usually the trumpets (trump fans) who are the most emotional? I say that as a question, I mean it as an observation.
Oh yeah, they're afraid of everything. Unstable snowflakes!
Load More Replies... Americas is doomed. But everywhere else might be too. But definitely America.
What do I think? I think that sign is stupid and I think refusing to hire people because of their ideology is ridiculous and it's just as stupid as saying "no conservatives allowed".
Who had a giant tantrum and stormed the capitol because they lost a fair election?
Spotted the Trump trash! Damn it's getting too easy, you should come up with new schtick. Or some new buzzwords.
Load More Replies... It depends on what kind of work they need done. Throughout the years, I've learnt you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Monkeys aren't necessarily bad though compared to some "humans" I've worked with.
One of the programmers I worked with was a liberal, very liberal. Really smart funny guy, and obviously logic-oriented. He was a talented coder and had worked there for like 25 years. But one day he got physical with someone who said something he didn't agree with, got in the guy's face yelling at him and started rapping on his chest with his finger and, boom, he got fired. Escorted out that very day. He'd behaved like that towards my boyfriend once too, yelling at him and shaking his fist in his face. Kinda surprising.
This is anecdotal. What does it have to do w anything?
Load More Replies... Oh you believe that old saw that the media is liberal do you? Probably because Fox news told you and they would never lie. Here is a fact that I bet you never learned from the liberal media - the national debt increases significantly with a Republican president and tends to go down with a Democratic president. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/jul/29/tweets/republican-presidents-democrats-contribute-deficit/ You know how they say that Democrats are the “tax and spend party” that is correct but what the “liberal” media never points out is that spending does not decrease significantly under Republicans so instead they should be called the “debt and spend” party but for some reason the “liberal” media never uses that term. I wonder why?
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