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Fed lawsuit: Hire old people for heavy
manual labor — or else!

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Posted By: Ida Lou Pino, 12/12/2023 9:07:15 AM

Uncle Sam wants YOU … to hire Grandpa as a piano lugger. Or else. That’s the latest madness from the federal government’s woke bowels: an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission lawsuit against Fresno-based Meathead Movers after the company refused to comply with a demand for a $15 million settlement. Meathead’s crime? “Discouragement bias,” i.e., the claim that hiring student-athletes of both genders in tip-top shape as movers and touting that fact in ads somehow discourages older people from applying for jobs.

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Listen, granny - - I told you to move that piano. Are you going to do it - - or do I fire you and hire another old biddy?

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Kate318 12/12/2023 9:34:01 AM (No. 1615607)
It’s one thing to live inside a perpetually angry and victimized state of mind, but why do they have to share?
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Reply 2 - Posted by: padiva 12/12/2023 10:08:28 AM (No. 1615645)
My employer told me that I need to know my limitations. I could be a real princess. I have weak hands so someone else has to cut open the cardboard boxes which isn't often.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: triggerberg 12/12/2023 10:59:03 AM (No. 1615689)
There really needs to be a way to sue these government flunkies for criminal stupidity.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: chumley 12/12/2023 11:25:50 AM (No. 1615710)
I used to supervise an asbestos worker who was complaining one day about the horrible hot suits we had to wear. He suggested that all asbestos workers be over 70 years old, and no suits. Since asbestos takes 20 years or more to be a problem, they would not likely suffer any ill effects for as long as they live. And better productivity. Sounded reasonable to me, but way above my pay grade.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MindMadeUp 12/12/2023 11:36:50 AM (No. 1615717)
This one instance is simply a symptom of a fundamental problem: We no longer live in a meritocracy. Across the board people are no longer hired because they qualify as the best candidate to do the job. They have to be hired based on DEI requirements. It's true from the meatheads at Harvard to the business men at Meathead Movers.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: red1066 12/12/2023 11:50:11 AM (No. 1615730)
Sure, let's start emptying the nursing homes and have those people start moving furniture. After all, they're not doing anything. They're just sitting around collecting SS and Medicare. They have to start doing something to get that check.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: sunshinehorses 12/12/2023 12:35:53 PM (No. 1615763)
Hubby is 64 y/o and can run circles around the younger people where he works. That includes lifting heavy stuff. Now yes he is feeling his age and would rather have some young people that would help, but yup, not happening. To be honest many of the people he works with were surprised to find out how old he really was. He loads and unloads heavy equipment on his semi trailer and climbs up to strap loads down. Do I think this lawsuit is BS - yes. That advertising is no worse than Two men and a truck.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: Venturer 12/12/2023 12:58:14 PM (No. 1615780)
That's almost as dumb as hiring women to be Firefighters.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: snakeoil 12/12/2023 1:43:19 PM (No. 1615805)
Rarely lift anything heavier than my remote controls. Just modify the ad: must be capable of manual work.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: DVC 12/12/2023 7:17:18 PM (No. 1616000)
Leftist are nothing if not stupid.
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