Why Getting Work Isn't A One-to-One Situation
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2025 06 03: These are a collection of tweets I posted on Twitter back in 2020. None of these things has changed, except to worsen.
#1: Availability of work does not mean those who need the work are suitable for it. If the only work that's available requires that a person be able to drive, then I can't apply for that work because I'm vision impaired.
#2: Accommodation is not always possible. You cannot, for example, accommodate me into a driver's license nor expect a business to retool their entire factory just to make it possible for me to work.
#3: Just because a job is available does not mean that the person who wants it is going to get it, especially if the competiton for that job is very high. A friend once applied for a job for which over 3000 other people had applied.
#4: Age. Many employers will not hire you if they feel you're past a certain age, particularly if you're over 50 and the position is lower-paying.
#5: Looks. Many employers will profile you based on your looks, even your weight, particularly women. A friend nearly lost her job because her employers didn't want her dealing with internal customers because she was plus size.
#6: Why don't you just go where the work is? Because it's unaffordable for many to just up stakes and move across the country to the Alberta oil fields, especially if they've been working low-wage work their entire lives.
#7: Many employers will not, and are not able to, accommodate for special medical needs, particularly invisible ones that prevent some folk from being able to hold down a socially acceptable 9-to-5 job.