Home improvement chain Trade Depot has been forced to apologise after a job listing it posted for a warehouse role in Hamilton, stated that applicants must be able to speak Hindi or Punjabi.
Before it was removed from job site Seek, the post was shared across social media sites, with users asking why those languages would be required for a warehouse job in New Zealand.
The company’s managing director, John Christie, was contacted by Chris Lynch Media for comment. Christie admitted “the wording was wrong and the error was ours. Those languages should have been described as an advantage for this role, not a requirement”. Christie went on to say: “Trade Depot is against discrimination in any form. We hire on people’s skills and attitude. This listing didn’t reflect that,” he said.
The blunder has sparked a review of how the company writes and posts its job ads. Christie told Lynch, “Additional language skills can be a real asset at a branch, and that is what this role was meant to address,” adding that “everyone is welcome at Trade Depot”.
The post raises the question of how such a requirement was approved and published in the first place, suggesting the issue goes beyond a simple drafting mistake and points to a broader trend of employers favouring certain linguistic or cultural groups.
The mistake has brought back into focus a 2018 listing, which was also posted on Seek, from Australian telecommunications company Optus. The listing asked for an “Anglo Saxon” applicant who lived locally for its Neutral Bay offices. Critics at the time told Optus to “have a long hard look at themselves” over the post, which was later removed.
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Wow. That says it all about our country doesn’t it. Shame on you trade depot. 👎
Trade Depot: There are other places to shop, without woke managemet and without foreigners serving you with unintelligible and incomprehensible English. I’m getting increasingly averse to dealing with them. We have enough unemployed people here who need a chance.
But hey, India FTA, here we go. The importation of totally foreign cultures, which will not integrate because of increasing numbers/population density and their vastly different and actively differring customs and way of life, is a deliberate threat to New Zealand, undermining our unique way of Kiwi lifestyle, you hear Winnie and accomplices? This will end in tears.
What do they know that we don’t? Indian Free Trade Agreement anyone? Trade Depot being informed that everyone must now hire as many Indians as possible hence the job description? Shame on Luxon for making NZ an open door for mass migration from India… when NZ is so poor already and has a huge employement problem already… any bets as to where this push for mass migration has come from? Luxon is taking his orders from somewhere else… behind that curtain is where you will see who is really pulling the levers on this country just like what’s happening in Europe with mass migration there…and look at the mess they are in now….
They are only sorry because they got caught.
I remember a kiwi born Indian acquaintance I had who once lamented to me that Auckland was becoming a “little Calcutta” there were so many of them here – and that was 15 years ago.
The NEW ZEALAND LOYAL PARTY has warned about this, so when will the voting public finally WTFU…?
https://nzloyal.com/commentary-on-the-new-zealand-india-free-trade-agreement/
Soon, this is what we’ll be seeing in the streets, with our children targeted for rape, molestations, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNsqFn11GMo
https://www.theblaze.com/lifestyle/whats-happening-in-india-demands-every-christians-attention-and-trumps-action
White Genocide via Displacement for Talmudic and economic reasons; happening globally with distractions ie Ebola, FIFA World Cup, etc.
https://x.com/douglassmackey/status/1989442142876389596
Yep, Luxon is a traitor as far as I am concerned…the bigger businesses are being given the heads up… Watched Michael Laws yesterday on the Platform and …he out and out stated that no submissions from the public ever stop a bill from being passed… I really did not like that eh… it simply means we the people do not count…. we have no jobs here yet this FTA will let in all kinds, not just IT nerds… every kind of tradie, even dairy farmers… you name it… open slather… what could NZ possibly gain by this? Make more of us move overseas that’s what… this place is so screwed… I have loved being in this country having come in from the UK with my British husband back in the 90s… WE HAD TO PROVE WE HAD ATTENDED AN ENGLISH SPEAKING SCHOOL FOR 5 YEARS… now they advertise these languages as requirements for a job? What the world is going on here?
Why are people shocked? I find these kind of requirements all the time. Not those particular two languages but others definitely yes.
What difference does it make whether it is Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Maori atc?