I believe that only people with lousy critical thinking skills will readily believe a TikTok video about a white guy being rejected from a Tim Hortons job interview because he doesn't speak Punjabi.
It's a stretch, but not a big stretch. Almost all Canadians have likely experienced Tim's where all/most workers are of a single ethnicity. Pretty much all small businesses prefer to hire people referred or recommended by people they trust. If the owner of the local Tim's franchise is Punjabi, it's quite likely most of the people they trust are also Punjabi, and most of the people they get recommendations for are Punjabi. Almost all of the networking they do is through the temple.
Rejected for not speaking Punjabi? Not likely. Rejected for not having a recommendation from one of the franchise owner's network, all of whom happen to be Punjabi? Quite likely. The difference between one and the other might be subtle.
ok, lets riff on the timmys pujabi coffee slinging
thing, first up is that it is not an easy job to make money at, the pace can be brutal, the customers ARE brutal, I have seen people get slugged in.the head for ordering a doughnut in the coffe only line, twise.keeping staff and filling shifts is just going to be a 24 hour a day 365 days a year, never get clear of it all consuming job, and saying that you cant make a shift, makes someone, no one.
all that said, the "middle" or "soft" shifts are much smaller and have a lot more "white" k8ds to help the mostly senior customers who go to meet there friends
as to not getting a minimum pay job in Canada right now, you must be jokeing, the add boards are constantly full, quite litteraly sit on the curb AT timmys, and someone will hire you, and DRIVE you to work and pay you cash
many fucks not given for people complaining about getting a job
The implication here then is that a stupefying proportion of Canadians have "lousy critical thinking skills", because even an associate professor of marketing from the article was, quote:
[...] initially taken in. "I was convinced that this was a real character and had
a real story that he was trying to tell in his little eight-second videos,"
he said.
I don't disagree with your assertion; rather, I find it an understatement.
This is unrealistic and dangerous. The "lacking critical thinking skills" is the liberal version of the conservative's "lazy" accusation. I.e. it's used as a scapegoat that downplays human nature by characterizing a problem as a personal fault that needs not be respected because either: 1. It's your fault, so why should I care (the conservative opinion); or 2. Should simply be fixed, with education (the liberal opinion). Both are un-pragmatic and harm society by implying we can simply alter or ignore the average person, who is the victim of the problem, rather than address the problem directly. As a reminder, the average person is what civilization is composed of.
> The "lacking critical thinking skills" is the liberal version of the conservative's "lazy" accusation
No, it's not. Lacking critical thinking skills is a real thing. Just because you pointed out it can be used as an insult by a political party doesn't invalidate the entire concept.
Rejected for not speaking Punjabi? Not likely. Rejected for not having a recommendation from one of the franchise owner's network, all of whom happen to be Punjabi? Quite likely. The difference between one and the other might be subtle.