Reply to post: Probably a third party contractor was responsible for operating this

IBM so very, very sorry after jobs page casually asks hopefuls: Are you white, black... or yellow?

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Probably a third party contractor was responsible for operating this

A large company's HR organization knows it isn't legal to even ASK what race someone is during the application process, and such a selection wouldn't pass muster regardless of what nomenclature was used.

Or if that page was run by IBM, maybe they have a discontented employee who altered the page as a last act after he got his layoff notice?

I mean, I'm all for calling out companies that do stupid shit, but this is way too stupid to even be believable. "Yellow", c'mon now!

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