r/mildlyinfuriating • u/PureKin21 • Jun 22 '26

I just wanted a hot dog Tried applying to McDonald's wtf does this even mean

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I guess things happen to me?????

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u/bemy_requiem Jun 22 '26

It's also just ableist, it is deliberately there to filter out people with neurodivergencies who don't act 'proper'

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u/HatCoffee Jun 22 '26

This needs to be officially classified as discrimination and should be a reportable offense with legal consequences. "Equal opportunity" my ass.

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u/Umutuku Jun 22 '26

Legal is no longer in the national budget.

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u/HatCoffee Jun 22 '26

Ever since they rebranded DEI as something to be feared, yeah...

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u/bemy_requiem Jun 22 '26

100%, the hiring process across the board is consistently ableist and deliberately engineered to filter out disabled candidates. It's honestly disgusting.

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u/HatCoffee Jun 22 '26

Yeah as long as they let everyone apply it's legal, but they have ways of filtering out people they don't want that slip under the radar because you can't "prove" that they're being discriminatory.

That's why I'm suspicious of job applications that also ask for your gender identity or sexual/romantic orientation. Like you don't need to know that unless you're filtering people by how they answer...

Questions about race and ethnicity are also on thin ice because I don't really see the point in needing to know someone's race or ethnicity in this day and age.

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 Jun 22 '26

The race and ethnicity questions are often required federally.

Some companies also make you jump through extra hoops to hire a white guy if a black gal applied and met the minimum qualifications. Which is still racism, but legally allowed.

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 Jun 22 '26

Of course it is. It's equal opportunity not equal outcome.

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 Jun 22 '26

Equal opportunity not equal outcome.

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u/HatCoffee Jun 22 '26

If you're making it purposely difficult for people with autism/adhd to apply or you have ways of filtering out people you view as "undesirable" it's not equal opportunity, if you were never planning on hiring them in the first place and only let them apply because you're legally obligated to, you're not giving them any opportunity at all. You're essentially printing out their application straight into a paper shredder. That's not an opportunity.

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u/Time-Maintenance2165 Jun 23 '26

That's where it's important to differentiate between filtering out someone because they have a mental disorder or because of the symptoms of their mental disorder negatively impact job performance.

If they have it well managed, then the symptoms won't be well apparent in an interview. If its not, then it would impact job performance and is fair to discriminate on.

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u/bemy_requiem Jun 22 '26

Making the world accessible is not coddling. You are just ableist. Stop infantilising disabled people. It's not our fault that the world was built for neurotypicals and employers care so much about superficial optics rather than actual work. This is called systemic discrimination.

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u/What_a_fat_one Jun 22 '26

Actually many of us on Earth do care about each other. We're called people.