My local Target hires disabled, weight-challenged, long haired, Seniors, and average looking people

[DainBramaged]

They don't hire air-brained beauties (not that all beauties are air-brained) skinny people aren't given preference over those who are way bigger than the magazine cover girls on the checkout aisle magazines, one of the cashiers has a severely deformed hand, another has port-wine stain on her face. I've been going there for nearly 6 years since they opened.


My point is, there has been A LOT of discussion about Target and their contributions to anti-gay candidates. That in and of itself is a huge conflict for me, along with their anti-Union efforts Nationwide.

But the people working in the store locally who would probably NOT get jobs elsewhere, that is really important to me and I celebrate that they HAVE jobs thanks to Target.

I have also heard MORE than a few times the local Walmart has a preponderance of foreign workers throughout the store, who have difficultly communicating with the customers. Maybe they need to give more jobs to Americans and ESPECIALLY handicapped Americans.


PS

I'm blind in one eye and less than 10% hearing in one ear. I QUALIFY as a handicapped person according to the State of NJ, but I take NO assistance and pray to my God the day never comes I can no longer drive.


Thanks for reading.

:rant:

[MNBrewer]

1. I have worked at Target,

I have friends who work at Target. I will not shop at Target until after the anti-same-sex-marriage amendment is defeated in Minnesota. Target has taken a position of "neutrality" on it, so I've decided not to shop there.

Target's officers decided to open the can of worms when they supported election of the anti-gay candidate for Governor of MN. Now they have to deal with it.

[friedgreentomatoes]

2. It's ok

For every person who boycots Target for their stand, their will be close to equal no. of rightwingers who will specifically go to Target for their stand, and then there are those thousands who know nothing about it and won't do either..

In the end it all balances out

[Moosepoop]

3. I'd say your local Target has a very good HR person.

The "official policy" of any given company is only as good (or bad) as the implementation of it by store personnel. The person (or persons) in charge of hiring, and the management that approves the hires (or at least allows the HR person to keep their job) at this particular store seem to have a good grasp on what's important -- the ability to do the job rather than model-like appearance.

I don't know if all Targets hire average and/or disabled people (my town doesn't have one), or if this store is an anomaly. But good on your local store, either way! :)

I can only hope that the store also hires and retains without thought to a person's sexual orientation as well, though you'll probably never know as that isn't something that can be determined by sight. I hope they do, and that they have GLTB employees who don't have to worry about hiding their lives from their employers or co-workers, despite what the company does at the corporate level.

[provis99]

4. jesus h christ. If you only have one eye, you damned well better not drive.

How dare you endanger people just because you feel like driving. that is a sickening thing to do, and should be illegal, if it already isn't.

[DainBramaged]

5. Not in NJ, if your eye is 20/20 correctable which mine is.

So thanks for your encouragement.......

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[DainBramaged]

20. GOOD EYE, is that easier to understand?

[Rhythm]

6. My dad was the safest driver i've ever known... Never an accident in over 40 years behind the wheel.

When i was a teen, he was my primary driving instructor, and i passed my driving test on my first try. I steered that boat-of-a car through its paces like i was born in it, and it was because he taught me everything he knew.

He lost his left eye at the age of 14... well before he received his first license.

You may now return to your preconceived notions and misinformation, already in progress...

[provis99]

14. and I've known drunk drivers who've never had an accident, either.

I guess you'd be in favor of drunks driving all over the road then.

[Rhythm]

22. Nice strawman there, Provis...

That had nothing to do with the original point of contention, and you know it.
:eyes:

[guitar man]

8. Bah

I used to swamp and flag for crop dusters when I was a youngin. One of the best spray pilots I ever saw only had one eye. He had to pay somebody to go take his FAA physical for him, but damn could he fly that Stearman. If a man with one eye can fly a spray plane under power lines and right up to treelines, driving shouldn't be that hard to adapt to.

[provis99]

13. well hell, I guess blind people should drive, too, if they feel like it.

All they need to do is have someone else take the FAA exam for them, right?

[DainBramaged]

23. It's amazing how angry this thread made you

do you have something against the handicapped who make something of themselves???????

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. one eyed people are considered competent to drive

[provis99]

15. not in Mississippi, they're not.

[Obamanaut]

21. According to this, they are. There is much more than the snippet on

vision requirement in Mississippi (and other states as well)

<snip> Drivers with 20/40 acuity or better in one eye, with or without corrective lenses, but blind in the other will be restricted to driving with an outside sideview mirror and corrective lenses if used to pass the test. <more at link> http://www.mdsupport.org/library/drivingrequirements.html#Mississippi

[DainBramaged]

24. I get it now

The state with the highest incidence of obesity, lowest graduation rate in the country, and you're nit picking about the partially blind driving.


Sad.

[dionysus]

18. my dad drove his whole life being blind in one eye. it doesn't mean you can't fucking see the road.

:eyes:

[eridani]

7. So does Costco. And not only do they not donate to homophobes--

--but they pay their employees a hell of a lot better than Target.

[Nye Bevan]

9. Walmart certainly hires weight challenged, seniors, and average looking people.

Admittedly a lot of Walmart associates are more in the Hooters mold, but there are quite a few who are not.

[donheld]

11. My one big issue is the alternative.

Am I then suppose to shop at Walmart, would they be better? You can't by everything at the grocery store and many can't afford to buy at department stores.
If I boycott everybody who is on the boycott list. I'd have to grow all my own food, sew all my own clothes, etc. I can't do that.

[ZombieHorde]

12. Both those who share our values and those who do not share our values

act under the label "Target." Ethical contradictions are going to happen.

Judging Target, Wal-Mart, etc, would be easier if they were individuals.

I know I am preaching to the choir, but the Supreme Court labeling corporations "people" is ridiculous.

[NNN0LHI]

17. I can't find a link right now but ...

... as I recall during the negotiations with the big box stores to pay a "living wage", to get permission to locate in Chicago a few years ago, Target was the first to pull out of the negotiations. They played hardball worse than Walmart.

If you need a link I will search some more?

Don

[tranche]

19. What do you mean by "foreign workers"?