Eliene Zimmerman’s recent blog post on TrueSlant.com “Are You A Beautiful Job Seeker? Upload Your Picture And Find Out!“, just doesn’t seem to get the point. Other than taking on the job of copy edit sherrif, gosh these bloggers sure have a lot of time on their hands, she just doesn’t understand the widespread demand for good looking people:
“I can’t imagine the kind of companies that really care how good looking their employees are …unless it’s a bar, perhaps, or an escort service.”
Really Zimmerman? Just bars and escort services, eh? What about trade show promotional girls, cheerleaders, dancers, models, actresses, restaurant hosts, pharmaceutical sales reps (ever seen an ugly one?), MMA and boxing ring girls, retail sales and on and on.
Now, you can argue that it shouldn’t be this way, but we’ll let you be both the copy edit sheriff as well as the moral police.
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May 9th, 2010 at 11:42 am
I can actually argue anything I want, that’s the beauty of the first amendment. And I don’t think that cheerleaders, for one, need a job site to get a job, nor do models or actresses. Restaurant hosts–really? You think the host has to be beautiful to get the job? I guess I don’t go to the right restaurants, forgive me. Certainly the host has to be presentable and well-dressed, but beautiful? I just can’t see that as a hiring pre-req. And have I ever seen an ugly pharmaceutical sales rep? I won’t qualify that with an answer, except to say that any sales person reading this blog should be offended. I’m not saying you don’t need to exude a professional appearance in sales–of course you do. But I have ever found a pharmaceutical sales rep unattractive? Yes. Beauty is a very subjective quality. I’d much rather deal with a well-informed, smart sales rep than a beautiful one.