Arrogant Americans Need not Apply!

Finally a major news organization covers an ad most U.S. techies see every day.

Fox News has discovered discriminatory job ads and this one says Help Wanted -- 'Arrogant Americans' Need Not Apply:

An information technology staffing firm based in Rolling Meadows, Ill., posted an advertisement for a technical writer that warned that an "arrogant American" would not flourish in the position.

"Exelon is looking to provide these proposals to Chinese businesses, so someone who is respectful and understands Chinese culture is preferred. An arrogant American will not work well in this role," the listing read.

Who is the job with? Exelon Nuclear Partners.

Now here is something different from the EEOC. We have heard repeatedly that discrimination based on citizenship status is perfectly legal and there are thousands of ads out there which discriminate against anyone with U.S. citizenship, even green card status, let alone age discrimination.

Diana Johnston, an attorney for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said a hiring decision based on national origin would be a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination by employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.

"You always have to look at the whole thing in context, but certainly it does violate Title VII to discriminate based on national origin," she said. "If you make a hiring decision based on national origin, including it based on somebody being American, that would be a violation."

To date, the EEOC has never even bothered to investigate the thousands of discriminatory ads against Americans most techies read every damn day.

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