An Austrian insurance company made the headlines this week for discriminating in the hiring process — based on zodiac signs. The Salzburg insurance company, after reviewing a statistical study conducted in Austria, concluded that the best employees in the country had only five signs.
First appearing over the weekend, Salzburg’s ad read: “We are looking for people over 20 for part-time jobs in sales and management with the following star signs: Capricorn, Taurus, Aquarius, Aries and Leo.”
The public, along with many equality groups, were enraged, and anti-discrimination authorities conducted an investigation. In the end, though, it was determined that in Austria discrimination only counts when it’s based on race, age and gender: not the sign you were born under.
You know, I thought about this last night and wondered if pw put this story in this world by mistake. Like maybe it belongs in the next world. The cool thing about the next world sci fi stuff is that it made me laugh and cry about where we are now.
There is a comment section after the stories. I could not really put myself in those futures, but for one which is personal to me. I wonder if anyone out there has the talent to comment from those potential futures as someone living in that future. That is a talent I do not have. Kinduv like those wooden puzzles in a million pieces that people whip back into form, amazing. But I just don’t have that kind of imagination.
Probably whoever came up with this is a sag, libra, cancer. Such is humanity.
I don’t want to work in an insurance office anyway; I wanna work in a “China Massage Restaurant Shop” (if it involves gardening and writing haiku, that would be even better.
I wonder if anyone applied for these positions? Who the h*ll came up with this bright idea?
Miffed is a light word for the twist of any system into power and control versus blossoming understanding.
I moved to a vortex town nearly 6 years ago where Merc Rx cards are handed out at the grocery store, and most job interviews whether contract or W2 involve a discussion of ones sun and moon and rising sign. I was turned down from a few for being a bull 🙂
My backlash against all the cool shifts I *was* experiencing energetically so beautifully supported by alt geometric systems such as astrology was to scoff, be aversive myself to the very thing helping me shift, or treat myself to the ocd condition of ‘better make 10,000% sure and ask again if what I’m sensing is true’ because of such yo-yo’s who were judging.
Live and learn, and love anyway!
Signed, Bull Scorpio Crab in a China Massage Restaurant Shop
I get it now. This here is one of them power drunk wing flappin chickens, I hear tell of.
reminds me of the latest craze in Japan, being judged by your blood type (saying it determines your personality), affecting everything from employment to hooking up. the prime minister even outed himself, there are best-selling books and of course, fashion accessories.
Well, good luck to these folks.
My first reaction was: is nothing sacred? Like Eric once stated, astrology is a tool with no objective will of its own.
With everything astrology has opened up for me, I really hate the bastardization of it into a means to control. I feel no less miffed (I must be toning down) at this Atlantean attempt to squelch the human experience than I did when I read this month’s MA article by some astrologer who wants to run the education system with astrology. It smacks to stagnation. It is no more management teaching employees how to be than it is teachers teaching children how to be.
I predict alot of snafu for this company. Whoever plays the best astrological benefits wins? Twenty new employees added to how many other, good luck to the astrologer running that company. Insurance is so very boring. Highest rates of infertility and miscarriage I’ve ever experienced. Not a real creative environment?