The Employment of Women

Phallic Symbol · 23-06-2010 7:27pm #1

Hi all,

I'm currently looking to hire a few people for a reasonably good job. We're talking middle management at a multinational, pay in the 60-80k region, possibly a bit more if someone was very good. I pretty much expected to be inundated with CVs and to be able to pick the absolute cream of the crop, but instead it seems that the only applications I am getting are from old birds in their 30s.

Now I don't know what anyone else thinks, but there is no f*cking way I would even consider hiring any of these. They are either stone crazy from being left on the shelf or they are gearing up to spend three quarters of the next decade out sick or having babies. What is annoying is that I have to go through the motions of interviewing them and giving them feedback, or they go whining to HR, and I'm starting to struggle to find PC reasons for not taking any of them.

Before I am wrongly accused, I am not being sexist here. I personally think the winning play is to hire a girl, but a nice chick, ideally around 27 or 28 is what I am in the market for. They work hard, look good, make an effort to be nice, and are generally a nice thing to have around the place. You get about 3 years or so out of them and everyone is happy to part ways when the time comes.

Now, I know this probably isn't going to go down well, and I'm sorry if I have come across the wrong way, but I just wonder whether anyone thinks I have it wrong - from a business point of view, of course. I pride myself on my open-mindedness and can be won over to any viewpoint if it can be shown that it makes business sense.

Thanks for listening!