Tuesday, July 21, 2009

More recruiting fun...

A scary comment on Huffington Post that I had to share.

"My son is 23 and a high-functioning autistic. We have been beseiged by recruiter phone calls for the last 4 years. At first, I ignored the calls. Then I started picking up the phone and informing the recruiter that my son is autistic. He cannot handle loud noises, crowds, certain textures of material, certain textures of food (he barfs when he SEES melted cheese), and many other impediments to a military job. They did not seem to care about his disability and made their spiel that he join up and be weeded out in boot camp. I don't think so. What I do not get is how they do not know which young people are autistic, down syndrome, etc. since these people are on Social Security Disability and the government could supply their names to military recruiters as "do not call" people. We apparently do not have enough "intelligence" to weed out developmentally disabled young people from recruiting efforts. Now that's a scary thought!"

This illustrates the abuses of recruiters who see people with disabilities as nothing more than fodder to meet their recruiting goals. If the disability angle doesn't shock you, think about the taxpayers money these recruiters waste by signing these people up to meet their goals, then indicating to parents that they will merely wash out later. This is appalling and why recruiters who engage in this behavior should be subject to criminal charges and incarceration.

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