laced an ad for another outside salesperson to add to his team of three. The ad did not have much of a description of what the job initialed but in the lower right hand corner in bold was EOE. When I asked why that was so prominent the only reason Alex could come up with was that he needed the best man for the job. Just by putting three little letters in the corner of his ad, he gave over a million readers the impression that he was a fair, impartial man whom will give each and everyone a chance to go to work for him. So how can companies use this civil rights act as a ploy to get more attention to their ads and receive a better selection of applicants?I interviewed an owner and proprietor of a vintage guitar company, Darrell Gabbs. It was established right away that he does not consider himself an equal opportunity employer. Darrell also had a few things to say about equal opportunity. “I don’t care anything about color, age or religion, I only hire the best man [male] for the job. Most of the time if I have given an interview over the phone I know if he is a qualified applicant or not. It just doesn’t matter how old or what color he is. But as far as women are concerned they should stay at home and tend to the children.” Then I told him that I was writing a paper on the civil rights act passed in 1964, he continued with. “That’s the cause of all the children going crazy and shootin’ people. Equal opportunity should be for men and men only, we wouldn’t have things like that going on if the women stayed at home and let you and I [men] support the family.” In the same breath he goes on to say that choosing a musician is the same way. “Music is the only field that revolves around the qualified person. I don’t give a f**k what someone looks like, smells like, or who they pray to, if you can’t play the part your not invited back.” The few times I ...
