FALSE TRAILS

NZ Truth, Issue 1197, 8 November 1928, Page 6

FALSE TRAILS

Those Tissue Paper Appointments

Announcements m the "situations vacant" columns of the daily press have little significance to the man m a comfortable position, but to the great body of unemployed the/carry the hope of work.

THE bona fides of firms advertising is 1 not doubted; unquestionably there is a job to be filled; it is the method sometimes employed m filing the vacancy that is open to grave censure.

. For business and as a matter of formality some firms insert y.n advertisement calling for applications to fill a vacancy, but often the' jPb is taken before the • announcement appears m print.- '.-' ' ; ■ .

Doubly disappointing, is\it to the search-weary and out-of^work applicant for a job when, . answering an advertisement , that states: v "Apply after 10 a.m." or "apply' after 9 a.m." to be told "the job .was taken hours ago."; ■ ■■'•■'.•' ■-.' ' . ■•:■■■....■■..;:; '

Angry disappointment results *when 30 or 40 men turn up; \vell -ahead of an appointed time, only to be told at the last minute v that the job "went", early- in the morning.

Such methods employed m the filling of a /vacancy - spell naught for the; business integrity ahd\ fair dealing of the advertiser: ' :..

The question ; of qualification does not enter into the matter- at all under these" circumstances, nor is the least thought giy.en' to the. men -who travel .long distances m the 'hope that, out of a body of ■■; applicants, they may bo the fortunate one. ,