BREMEN, Ind. (WNDU) - The Bremen Dollar Tree is going viral this week due to a unique help wanted sign that is not only controversial but could be considered discriminatory.
While the sign no longer hangs in the window of the Dollar Tree, it was there long enough for passers-by and potential customers to snap photos.
The handwritten sign read:
“I apologize for us closing AGAIN. My 2 new cashiers quit because I said their boyfriends couldn’t stand here for their entire shift.”
“Don’t hire Gen Z’s. They don’t know what work actually means. NOW HIRING! *Baby Boomers ONLY, thanks!”
Generation Z includes any person born between 1997 and 2012 or someone who is between 9 and 24 years old.
The Baby Boomer Generation includes any person born between 1946 and 1964 or someone who is between 58 and 76 years young.
“You’re going to get people from every group who are lazy and work hard. I’m sure when baby boomers were young, they were probably also called lazy, and it just keeps going on from generation to generation,” said frequent Dollar Tree customer Lindsay Berger.
16 News Now was informed that the store’s manager put up the sign after two young employees had quit.
“People just need to be kind and understand other people’s situations. You don’t always know what’s going on in somebody else’s life, and it’s not all about you. Be compassionate with another,” said Bremen Resident Elizabeth Wily.
16 News Now reached out to Dollar Tree for a statement on the incident.
“We are aware that an unauthorized sign was posted at our store for a brief period of time. The handwritten message was absolutely not approved by or condoned by our Company,” said Randy Guiler, Vice President and Investor Relations for Dollar Tree, Inc.
Federal law prevents employment discrimination based on race, sex, sexual orientation, disability, religion, color, and veteran status.
In the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), Congress warned against “the setting of arbitrary age limits regardless of potential for job performance has become a common practice, and … may work to the disadvantage of older persons.” As a local attorney told 16 News Now, it would be wise for a business to forbid its employees from making any employment decision based on someone’s age.
The manager is no longer employed by Dollar Tree.
The boyfriends? Standing their the whole shift? I do not claim them as boys but soi boi's. Those girls need to learn old school, make good choices.
ReplyDeleteYeah, why aren't the "boyfriends" out looking for a job of their own? Everywhere I go there are help-wanted signs
DeleteThe company fired the poor manager for posting this sign.
ReplyDeleteLink or it didn't happen.
DeletePost updated and manager was fired.
DeleteAnon must play the accordion
DeleteWoman are the gatekeepers, what they demand, or not, they get. More importantly the gals have no understanding of decorum or respect to their employer. It’s not complicated.
ReplyDeleteMaybe hire the boys? Need shelf-stockers, floor cleaners?
ReplyDeleteSo they can be paid while they stand beside their girlfriends? So the manger can now have 4 employees that don't work? Where does this endless money come from that will be needed to pay their salaries? ANON, you certainly are a leftist and you must have a government job that. In the private business world, you either find hard workers to earn a profit, or you go bankrupt. Something the government, and their hand picked businesses, never seem to do.
DeleteMaybe the boyfriends could go look for a job at another business
DeleteWell, that IS age discrimination. You are not supposed to say it out loud, but it happens every day. I have had employers come to the college and say they want young candidates (many of my students are non traditional - i.e. not just out of high school) I laugh and tell them they are not supposed to say that. But heaven forbid they interview a candidate in their 30s.
ReplyDeleteBill Whittle--
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfA6SbzRAdU
3-1/2 days. For good behavior. IF YOU RUDELY INSIST, we'll make it a WEEK for BAD behavior...
Delete"The truth shall set you free" to seek other employment.
ReplyDeleteI am a baby boomer. When I was young, I had no problem finding work. In the interview, I said I show up, on time, ready to work. At least three times I remember I was hired before I finished speaking.
ReplyDeleteWhy? What's so special about what I said?
Because I stood out. Many my age were lazy and/or incompetent. Like I would say, Not that I am so good, but they're so bad.
My dad, career Marine, taught his children well. He taught us a work ethic. There was shame in not giving 100%, 100% of the time.
But being ready for work is important. Ince, I was hired simply because I was the only applicant to wear boots to the interview. The ad said, boots required.
I was a business owner. I paid more than any of my competitors. I had a paid training program. I made it known that I had high expectations of my employees. While that was true I fgured it would werd out the nonhackers.
Still I got applicants who surprised me. Some would demand higher starting wage, others wanted to write their own schedule, one actually wanted me to co-sign for a new car before being hired. Even after being hired, they'd say I expected too much.
Every generation has lazy workers. Often they'd spend more energy how not to work than the work itself. Its purely ego and pride, thinking too highly of themselves, thinking its some kind of democracy where even the slouch gets a say.
Today's society has eliminated shame and elevated the thought that all opinions are equal.
AMEN!
DeleteThe truth is now hate speech because they can not debate the truth. Shutting down debate and controlling the elections for political gains is all they really have. This is why they fight tooth and nail for illegal voter rights and or any atemtp to reform their processes. .
ReplyDeleteThrow the boyfriends out of the store for interfering with the work environment and let the snowflakes quit when their boyfriend is not there for whatever "emotional" support. Then only hire someone with prior work experience, check ID quietly for age, and then hire accordingly. We are truly living in crazy clown world.
ReplyDeleteGee, I wonder why EVERYONE is fed up with spoiled, useless, incompetent leeches who expect a paycheck for doing little to nothing.
ReplyDeleteFucking mystery, it is.
As far as young workers that I've come in contact with, some are great and some are the worst.
ReplyDeleteKid, I am sure that your statement is true, but it is too generic in fact. Think of almost everything in life as the Bell Curve. When people talk of GEN-Z workers, they are describing the large subset in the middle of the curve as "non-caring" workers. There will be outliers that are fantastic workers. Just like there are outliers in the "Boomer" group that are lazy non-workers. Groups of people are classified by the approximate 70% that fall under the middle of the bell curve, and today's generation is much lazier than the Boomers. The breakdown of the nuclear family is probably the most to blame. Education/indoctrination is easy when the family is not able to instill a work ethic. Eventually, the kids believe that they are victims of the wealthy. When one finally sees the connection that wealthy people create jobs with their investments, one can take advantage of the opportunity, work hard, and become relatively wealthy themselves. Or, one can continue to blame the wealthy, see themselves as the victim, and vote for Democrats who promise to give away the fortunes of hard-working Americans. If you look carefully, you will then question why does anybody work hard at all when the government will give away EVERYTHING you need to live a meager life. Personal pride and upward mobility is the answer. Oh, and that pesky fact that eventually, as more and more fall to the welfare class, you eventually run out of other people's money. By then, you have a totalitarian government that uses force to create "paid" slave labor. This is not a conspiracy theory. It has happened countless times in world history and exists now in other countries.
DeleteSpeaking truth to power has consequences. You shouldn't let that stop you. Lessening of standards is how our nation got in this mess and lessening them further will not make things better.
ReplyDeleteThe truth gets another person fired. Such is the world created by insane Demonrats. Nemo
ReplyDeleteWhen the Pledge of Allegiance, God, paddling (for being an ass) were ousted from schools and replaced with compassion and participation trophies, this is what happens. Will Western society ever learn from this? Probably not. We're too far in the muck of the Fourth Turning to get to the other side. It will be painful for all.
ReplyDeleteOhio Guy
So now they are short two cashiers and now a manager, yeah, so now some other lazy slacker will get a job and the whole store, customers and investors will loose! I am not advocating for age discrimination, but firing a manager for that is why we have a job shortage in the first place...
ReplyDelete1979-89.
ReplyDeleteI owned a restaurant business in northern California.
I must be the luckiest boss in the known universe... I had waitresses with me for eight years, pearl-divers with me for the full ten.
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I could bail for a week with complete confidence in my crews.
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My payroll was equivalent to most other restaurants in the area.
Work conditions, benefits, vacation, everything equal to the folks with massive turn-over and training new cow-orkers every week.
And my customers were loyal and true, some coming in for three meals every day.
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No explanation.
Color me 'baffled'.