MALE CSR JOB OFFER???

[Roberta-Anne Schmitt]

Whoa, what's going on here???  Just got a job post from CSRNation with the heading

MALE CSR NEEDED - HUH???  Kelly???  Is this for real???  Sounds like DISCRIMINATION to me!

Wow.  

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

Tres interesting!!

[Amanda Leigh]

You would think a discriminatory request like that would come with an explanation of necessity.

[Marge Teilhaber (TILE hobber)]

Yes, that is very odd that it didn't occur to the poster to throw that in.   There's got to be some reason, ridiculous or not but I'm sure ridiculous.

[Amanda Leigh]

At least a *sensitive subject matter* line--something o_O.

[mary nelson]

Years ago I was  I was taken off a job because they wanted a male reporter, citing safety concerns.   It was at Folsom Prison.  I would have loved to have gone.

 

[Amanda Leigh]

Ah, you mean they told you why?  Lol.  Yeah, that'd be pretty interesting--and you'd just HAVE to dress in all black, of course.  I have been to too many correctional facilities.  Won't do it anymore--I just must have my smartphone with me at all times nowadays.

[Adam Miller]

It's not all that unusual a request.  I've heard that once every year or two.

In this particular case, it was not a prison job.  My understanding is it was a delicate/embarrassing subject for the male deponent and the request for a male reporter was for the deponent's comfort.

adm

[Lisa O'Sullivan]

I used to report depositions taken by a law firm that had as a client a manufacturer of sensitive products such as enhancement devices.The deponents were usually suing the manufacturer because the product had gone awry and caused injury in a delicate area. I always felt sorry for those deponents because it seemed like the law firm went out of its way to send the opposite-gender attorney to ask all these personal questions. That method worked for them and their client, though, because the cases usually settled quickly.

[Freddie Reppond]

Whenever I do an IME, I always ask the firm to check with the attorney if it's okay for a male reporter (me) to do the job, just in case it's a female being examined.  I got sent out once when I didn't think to ask and it was a female examinee.  There was no objection once I got there, but I was a little uncomfortable even if nobody else was.

[Rhonda Hall Breuwet, RDR CRR CLR]

My first IME, well, I didn't even know what it was.  I had just moved to FL from MS, and we didn't have those in MS.  I get set up in the room with the male patient.  The doc comes in and has him strip down to his whitey-tighties.  I don't know who was more embarrassed, him or me.  He then had to heel-toe walk back and forth across the room.  I had NO idea this would happen; otherwise, I would have told them to send a male.  Thank God the dude happened to wear underwear and wasn't free-balling.  There is a doc here in Tampa, though, who gives them paper shorts to put on.  I remember driving home from that first IME and calling my husband, "OMG, I just took a job while the man walked around in his underwear."  LOL

[Kelli Combs (admin)]

I didn't even see this one.  Maybe I didn't read it all that thoroughly.  Was it for New York?

[Christi Massey]

Eh, the discrim card gets called too often these days.  Generally, there's always an underlying reason for things.  We need not jump to conclusions so fast.  :)