So, I'm looking through the classifieds in my local paper and I find this...

[cynatnite]

ESTABLISHED Marketing firm in Kingsport has an immediate opening for full time Administrative Assistant to the president. The candidate must possess excellent secretarial skills and friendly team oriented personality. Once hired, if you show any signs of disorganization you will be lynched.

[shadowknows69]

1. Yeah sounds like a friendly, team oriented work enviornment doesn't it?

[Marrah_G]

4. Yes, it actually does :)

I'm guessing one must have a sense of humor to be considered. Those without one, probably wouldn't apply.

[lligrd]

18. You Mean, A Freaking Odd Sense Of Humor

I don't think I would qualify.

[Marrah_G]

19. Yes, definitely an odd sense of humor.

[peekaloo]

2. so I'm guessing health insurance is out of the question

:wtf:

[Marrah_G]

3. I think they are looking for a sense of humor.

I would totally apply for that job!

[NNN0LHI]

5. Would you totally apply if you were a black person do you think?

[Marrah_G]

7. I have no idea what I would do if I were a black person.

Most lynchings were white on white.

:eyes:

[NNN0LHI]

9. Where did you get that statistic?

http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/g_l/lynching/lynching.htm

Between 1882 (when reliable statistics were first collected) and 1968 (when the classic forms of lynching had disappeared), 4,743 persons died of lynching, 3,446 of them black men and women. Mississippi (539 black victims, 42 white) led this grim parade of death, followed by Georgia (492, 39), Texas (352, 141), Louisiana (335, 56), and Alabama (299, 48). From 1882 to 1901, the annual number nationally usually exceeded 100; 1892 had a record 230 deaths (161 black, 69 white). Although lynchings declined somewhat in the twentieth century, there were still 97 in 1908 (89 black, 8 white), 83 in the racially troubled postwar year of 1919 (76, 7, plus some 25 race riots), 30 in 1926 (23, 7), and 28 in 1933 (24, 4).

Statistics do not tell the entire story, however. These were recorded lynchings; others were never reported beyond the community involved. Furthermore, mobs used especially sadistic tactics when blacks were the prime targets. By the 1890s lynchers increasingly employed burning, torture, and dismemberment to prolong suffering and excite a "festive atmosphere" among the killers and onlookers. White families brought small children to watch, newspapers sometimes carried advance notices, railroad agents sold excursion tickets to announced lynching sites, and mobs cut off black victims' fingers, toes, ears, or genitalia as souvenirs. Nor was it necessarily the handiwork of a local rabble; not infrequently, the mob was encouraged or led by people prominent in the area's political and business circles. Lynching had become a ritual of interracial social control and recreation rather than simply a punishment for crime.

[Marrah_G]

10. I'll have to go research it

it's something I had read a while back and I don't generally research everything little thing I write.

You and I are not going to agree on this.

I believe the ad was meant to be humorous.

I don't believe for a minute it had to do with race or actual lynching.

[cynatnite]

11. Here in the south I'm guessing a black person may feel their app wouldn't be welcome n/t

[Marrah_G]

13. Well, we can ask them !

http://www.cumberlandmarketing.com/2008/specialists.php

I'm going to drop an email to them and see what they meant by the word lynch!

[cynatnite]

14. I already have. n/t

[Vilis Veritas]

16. That would be an understatement...n/t

[cynatnite]

8. I live in TN and that crossed my mind. n/t

[Winterblues]

20. If I were a cattle rustler or horse thief I don't think I would apply either..

:shrug:

[supernova]

6. A rare instance of honesty

Translation: All shit rolls downhill and when things go wrong, you will be blamed to save the boss's hide.

Admin is a shitty job with lots of responsibility and none of the perks of corp America.

[Vilis Veritas]

12. Code word.

Blacks need not apply, we want only ignorant white people who live in a Barbie Doll Wonderland...

http://www.cumberlandmarketing.com/2008/specialists.php

Just my opinion...link is to the firm in question...

saddlesore

[LeftHander]

22. ding ding ding....nt

[pipi_k]

15. I don't know what to make of the actual statement itself, but

if it's meant to be humorous, I think it's in pretty bad taste considering the sensitive atmosphere surrounding the elections this year.

Sort of like a guy making a "joke" about having a bomb while he's standing in line to board a plane or bus or subway train.

Innocent or not...there are just some things it's not real wise to do at the moment...


Just my opinion...

[Marrah_G]

17. After reading this thread

I can see where it was a bad choice of words, especially where it is located.

I'm not convinced that it was purposefully done, but I can see where you are all coming from now.

I should have thought about it more.

[undeterred]

21. I'm sure they think its funny

but its not.

There is a job I am applying for now through an agency. The recruiter read a statement to me from the manager to all applicants which was something like this: "The workplace is a serious place with no time for joking around. It is a mistake not to ask questions. I expect you to work every minute you are paid for."

Between the lines I get the idea that someone was fired abruptly and that the manager is not a real laid back guy... who sends a statement like that to be read to applicants?