An Australian company has been slammed for a job ad saying it is looking for people aged over 40 who own a car, an iPad and have a sense of humour.
National Rental Inspections, which is based in the Melbourne suburb of Doncaster, is looking for a rental property inspector and has some very specific requirements.
The company’s ad starts out by saying ‘People over 40 are encouraged to apply’, which gets it around age discrimination laws by not saying applicants have to be over 40.
It then says applicants must ‘Have a car, that works, 96 per cent of the time, be able to pay to put fuel in it (and) be willing to leave the suburb you live in for work.’
The successful applicant will also be someone who is ‘willing to listen, while you are talking you are not listening.
An Australian company has been slammed for a job add saying it is looking for people aged over 40 who own a car and have a sense of humour. A woman is pictured doing a property inspection
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The company’s ad (pictured) starts out by saying ‘People over 40 are encouraged to apply’, which gets it around age discrimination laws by not saying applicants have to be over 40
An Australian company has been slammed for a job add saying it is looking for people aged over 40 who own a car, an iPad and have a sense of humour.
‘I know this but it’s my business, so you must be willing to listen to me and learn, I know everything already.’
The ad does indicate that it’s having a bit of fun with the application process by also saying prospective employees must ‘have a sense of humour’.
But not everyone got the joke, especially on the Reddit online chat site, where a post about the ad has bitterly divided opinion.
The original poster wrote ‘WTF, is this a joke?’, while another said ‘I would definitely not apply, what a huge red flag.’
A third commenter said National Rental Inspections ‘sounds like a nightmare to work for’.
The job requires some attributes that would be helpful in any position, such as ‘Be good with people.
‘My clients are very important to me, so it would be nice if you could be nice to them.’
But it also has a few preferences that would rule a lot of people out, such as where it says ‘Most importantly, this is not school hours.
‘It is however suitable for mums, dads, people with no kids (lucky you!) as we can work around your family, but you cannot have 3 months off over Christmas and 2 weeks off every other month for school holidays.’
The company director Michael Uspensky said he worded the advertisement to make it stand out so he could get the best possible applicants.
‘All ads look the same, you’ve got to look different, and people are sick of being treated like a number,’ he told Yahoo Australia.
‘And I’ve had so many people say “we applied for this job because of your ad”.’
![The job ad also says applicants must own an iPad (pictured) and not look for three months off over Christmas](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/10/08/06/76294467-12606925-image-a-82_1696742315808.jpg)
The job ad also says applicants must own an iPad (pictured) and not look for three months off over Christmas
Mr Uspensky said he wants to hire ‘someone with a sense of humour because in our business, we’re doing inspections in tenants’ places so we want to get in there, be happy and just treat the tenants with respect and have a bit of a smile and keep it casual’.
Though some were not amused by his ad, many commenters liked that the ad was honest about the kind of person they’re looking for.
One said the company must be ‘fed up with idiots in the past, I love this advert’.
Another wrote that ‘It’s funny, the employer obviously has a sense of humour,’ and a third said ‘at least they are making any expectations obvious from the start’.
The ad acknowledges that some may not find it funny by adding ‘We are actually very awesome to work with/for and have an amazing team but we are just growing and need more inspectors.’
The company director said he prefers people over 40 because they have ‘more life skills for the job’ and that comments about children were ‘just a bit of fun’.
‘If people want to think I’m discriminating, the job is not for them, not because they’ve got children, because they don’t have a sense of humour,’ he said.
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