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If You’re Offended By the “Help Wanted” Sign, You May Be Stupid

Sunday, 26 February 2023, 21:38 BFH Uncategorized 30

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An Ohio pizza restaurant’s hiring signs have been hanging outside for a couple months, but they’ve only now gone viral. “Now Hiring Non-Stupid People” read the two signs of Santino’s Pizzeria in Columbus. Store manager Heather Stockton tells 10TV that the signs were posted in good fun, but after some very real hiring headaches: hiring and training applicants who then bailed on the job, no-shows, and people who weren’t serious about working. “I had a high school student who thought it was okay to bring a nerf gun in with another employee here,” she says.

Jayden Dunigan, whose parents own the shop, echoes that to WSYX. “A lot of people we’ve hired just don’t want to work. There is no work ethic behind them, so that’s the meaning behind the ‘Non stupid.'” The goal, per Stockton: find workers who are “reliable, on time [and] don’t come to work in like sandals.”

Dunigan says most people have taken the signs in stride, but a few have been bothered by it, including one person who Dunigan says called in a fake order, requesting 10 pizzas then calling back later to cancel and lob insults. WCMH reports a Facebook user indicated he called in the fake order, posting this message along with an image of the sign: “They should’ve taken a card for an order over $60. They didn’t. I guess they shouldn’t have hired stupid people. Pizza sucks btw.” The unwanted pies were donated to a homeless shelter.

30 Comments on If You’re Offended By the “Help Wanted” Sign, You May Be Stupid

  4. I know exactly what the pizza place means. I have hired a ton of people since covid. Several no-showed, a couple went to lunch and never came back. More than one should have been committed to the looney bin, one guy thought it was OK to vape pot at work and was pissed and walked out when we told him it wasn’t. Some we got to work 4-5 days before we let them go for stupidity or they just quit. It’s sad what the Gov’t has done. I could double my business if I could get the right help.

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  5. If I’m doing the hiring behind that sign, I’m feeling some pressure. What if the dude or dudette turns out to be a complete doofus? He’s just a doofus who blew by the sign, he fooled me too though. Oh well, s-can him and try again.

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  6. I understand the sentiment in the sign and the article/comments But I also have to wonder who is doing the interviewing and hiring.

    It often isn’t that difficult to weed out bad candidates before hiring them, just a little common sense, attention and thought.
    Two quick examples I have seen in the last two years where I have worked.

    In New York a few years back, as an assistant supervisor for a security firm, I sat in on a hiring interview, the perspective employee was a Nigerian with a thick accent. I had my doubts about this guy form the minute he walked in. During the interview he stated he ran a church and was a pastor and was just in need of some extra money, But his address suggested he lived in a very upscale neighborhood, as he left the interview, I saw him drive off in a brand-new Humvee; and this guy was applying for a part time job paying 12.50 an hour.

    Two months later the Feds shut down his church and arrested him, apparently his Church was just a front for smuggling illegal immigrants from Africa into the US.

    Where I currently work (in Tennessee) they needed a New Chef. One morning Just before ending my overnight shift at 8 Am a man came in and handed me his resume’ A quick glance at it revealed he worked at like 5 or 6 places in the last 2 years but I handed it over the woman in charge of hiring. they hired him, he lasted less than two weeks; what the hell did they expect?

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  7. Brad, LBS,

    I like you both.

    Can you 2 Stop Throwing Shit at each other?
    Its starting to splash on everyone else.

    Don’t make me load up The Dog Sled, Leave the Igloo, and go all Hockey Stick on BOTH your Asses.

    Cheers!

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  13. You typed it, I read it, and you know it asshole. I hate the fuck out of chicken shit fuckers. At least man up and own it. Infuriating. You do not belong on a conservative blog.
    If Geoff says he has it saved, he does.

  15. Oh well, Geoff said so and his word is gold.
    Sorry I ever questioned such sage wisdom.
    Good to know it’s “saved.”
    Somewhere? I guess, facts are unclear.
    Perhaps he will grace us with a release date?
    The great unveiling?

    BTW, as a conservative I don’t cotton to lies, smears, and bullshit inuendo.
    So yes, I very much belong here.

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  18. DaveVA
    likes Libtards that threaten his freedom. He’s to stupid to spot them. They’re called Trolls dumb shit. By the way, my very conservative neighbors and I, do I need to explain that to you dumb shit Dave, get along pretty well. We have met several times collaborating on a survival plan for our small neighborhood should Loco and Rich attack us. LOL. Dave, you’re an idiot. Prove me wrong.
    My best advice to yo is follow every single bit of Loco’s advice. FUCK ME.

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  20. Speaking of opinions…
    When I saw this “Hiring Non-Stupid People” sign,
    I figured the employer was exposing himself to a lawsuit for slander from the stupid guy he just fired.

    Yes, it’s not slander if how you characterized them is true.
    Then again, there are alot of stupids and assholes out there.

    Glad I closed my business in 2016.

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  21. My boss hired a guy named Doug in his early 20’s a few years ago to deliver flowers. Doug rode along with me on my local/CDA, Id. route and was the strangest, mopiest guy that I ever met who was such a gloomy Gus and evidently living alone with his mom in her basement. He lasted one day, and we never saw him again. Doug was a total loser who evidently just needed to get out of the house for a day or was told that he needed to apply for a job in order to collect his unemployment. I never understood why my boss sent me out with this turkey. We had another young guy who went out on his break to smoke dope and was caught by my boss and the door couldn’t have hit him fast enough on his way out as he was fired immediately. What an idiot.

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  22. We had another middle-aged guy named Keith who worked for us who was found out to be a total scumbag and womanizer who was caught making some rather lewd sexually suggestive comments to some of the younger ladies who worked for us. He was also fired immediately. But the piece da resistance was when I worked for a courier company in the early 90’s where I had a job delivering drugs, schedule one narcotics to pharmacies and local hospitals and working inside the vault of one the largest banks in Spokane early in the morning picking up all their bank receipts and such and delivering them to the airport for transport every morning to a small plane for Seattle. Not only did I have access to the airport tarmac since this was pre 9/11 but this was a job requiring good security because of the nature of all the items that I picked up and delivered. When I quit working for them in the Spring of 94 and got a better job, my cheap bastard boss hired a guy on work release from a local prison who had access to all these highly secure places and narcotic deliveries and such. Evidently, he was hired because his pay was subsidized by the govt. and thus my boss got someone who worked for them as cheap as possible. I never understood that hire and I heard thru the grapevine later that they had fired this worthless jerk for drinking on the job at local bars while out making deliveries. By the way the company was called Pony Express which we who worked there called Phony Excuse. I was never so glad when I quit working there, it was one of the worst jobs that I ever had .

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  25. Come on man, you need a loud speaker to announce you’re hiring only smart people, because STUPID PEOPLE CAN’T READ! What are we as a nation going to do about all the illiterates coming over the border? They eat, crap, and reproduce more of the same. This is how great nations fail, and there’s only two ways to get rid of them.

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  26. I would ask them-
    Can you follow instructions?
    Can you follow instructions when you disagree with them?
    Here’s a map, show me where we’re at.
    Can you add and subtract fractions, show me.
    Why do you think my company is in business? What purpose?
    If I hire you where do you see yourself a year from now?
    What’s your greatest concern for America?

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  29. Hell, I had a hard time getting them to show up in acceptable shoes. Seriously. The last guy wore sandals on his first day – with sweats no less! The fact he ran on his own time killed the deal.

    We have set appointment times to make. If you can’t make them, I can’t hire you. That simple.

    Next!

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  30. My farewell comment to him: You’re not hungry enough.

    He was collecting covid unemployment at the time I hired him. He had no financial stress coming in. Didn’t care about what I needed from him.

    I understand why businesses preferred family men to hire when I was a youngster. They have more at stake than just earning a dollar. I know I put up with a lot of nonsense to keep my family fed and sheltered.

    You can always look for a better job, but you don’t disrespect the one you currently have while it feeds your family.

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