‘If Possible, Not Jewish’

How would you like to work in an “ultra-dynamic” workplace, and one that discriminates, too? Didn’t think so. But this appears to be what one graphic design firm in France thought was van ideal format for the workplace elixir.

Last year, French magazine Les Inrocks discovered a Facebook post from a job seeker who posted a screenshot of an job listing on graphic-jobs.com from NSL Studio, a design firm, which was looking for a permanent graphic designer. The ad “specified in its first two lines that the candidate must be rigorous, motivated and keen to develop in an “ultra-dynamic” environment,” reported The Guardian.

Sounds about right, on par with the drudgery of online job listing that are so deeply watered down in corporate jargon. But then things went off-script as the third line pointed out that the ideal candidate would apparently be a person who if possible, was not Jewish.

Les Inrocks reported that an un-named person at NSL simply intended the bullet point to communicate the company was looking for a new employee who would not be confined by religious observances, for example, which, is just more insanity.

The Guardian reported that NSL studio “tweeted that it had been hacked and would never have posted such a “discriminatory” advert,” but their Twitter account has been locked. As well, NSL’s Facebook activity, such a previously available statement on the matter, is no longer functional.

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article did not indicate that the job posting, which resurfaced on social media this week, was from 2015.