Only The Employed May Apply

We’ve touched on variants of the company-only-hiring-currently-employed-people thing before, but it’s apparently gotten particularly bad: job postings are now loudly proclaiming that only employed applicants will be considered.

The Huffington Post rounded up a list of egregious examples: “A Craigslist ad for assistant restaurant managers in Edgewater, N.J. specifies, ‘Must be currently employed.’ Another job posting for a tax manager at an unnamed ‘top 25 CPA firm’ in New York City contains the same line in all caps.”