In March 2023, a recruiter for Arthur Grand Technologies posted a job advertisement looking for ‘US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates]’
A tech company in Virginia has been fined thousands of dollars by the Justice Department over a job advert seeking “whites only” candidates.
In March 2023, a recruiter for Arthur Grand Technologies, an information technology services firm based in Ashburn, posted a job advertisement on the recruitment website Indeed for a business analyst for the company’s sales and insurance claims team.
The job posting said that the company was looking for “US Born Citizens [white] who are local within 60 miles from Dallas, TX [Don’t share with candidates]”, according to the DOJ.
Meanwhile, the company denied it had approved the posting and blamed a disgruntled employee working for its subsidiary in India.
“It wasn’t our fault, it was the dark-skinned guy’s fault” is an interesting way to try to excuse your white racism…
Considering it said “[Don’t share with candidates]” and allegedly the Indian employee is the one who shared it with candidates, I think I can guess what he was righteously “disgruntled” about!
Even if the guy happily posted the ad, that is the most tone-deaf way they could have responded to this. Even just coming out and saying, “yep, we meant whites only when we said whites only” would have been less tone-deaf.
“Thousands of dollars” in fines is orders of magnitude too low.
Edit: also, what the actual fuck:
Under the arrangement, Arthur Grand will pay a civil penalty of $7,500, along with a total of $31,000 to 31 people who complained about the posting. The company — which is minority-owned and a federal contractor designated a disadvantaged business — will also be monitored to ensure compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
That company should’ve instantly lost those “disadvantaged business” and “Federal contractor” designations permanently!
That designation is so heavily gamed…
You’re neglecting how they got those contracts to begin with.
Only fined? Whoever made that requirement is going to continue causing damage. This person should be banned from any management position or position where they have power over other people.
Company should be banned. Nobody should do business with them anymore.
The company should have lost its business license and had its IP released to the public domain. Someone might actually care.
Saying the quiet part out loud.
When Republicans talk about free speech, this is what they mean.
As usual they never admitted wrongdoing… And the person in charge who made the decision was not identified or dealt with…So they’ll do it again if they think they can get away with it
Rookie mistake. You’re not supposed to say the quiet part out loud.
Arthur Grand Wizard Technologies
As they should be.
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When you want whites only, it is racist and you get sued, but when you want non-whites only, it is not racist and no one gets sued? This is a double standard.It’s 2024. You can’t be this ignorant.
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We can’t even hire WHITE PEOPLE now? I TOLD YOU Whites were being hated just because of our SKIN COLOR! And I’m TOTALLY NOT RACIST!
The article says the post was made by an employee in India. Seems like a cultural misunderstanding.
One of those white supremacist Indians you hear so much about these days…
Maybe they shouldn’t outsource
