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Job requirements to have a car are discriminatory to the indigent. Most cases, a company could provide a vehicle but chooses not to. Love when companies code it with "access to reliable transportation" knowing full well that in most cases, the bus is not frequent enough to be reliable. Access to reliable transportation should be a right, ie public transit should be way better.
When I was a mere lad, I was outright rejected for a stockist position at the local supermarket because I did not have access to a car at the time.
Said supermarket was literally across the street from my house. I could have done a handstand and walked over there on my hands if I wanted to. When other employees couldn't make it in because of snow, I could have showed up still. I mentioned all of this to the manager. "Policy is policy," I was told.
This was needless to say a one of those formative experiences for me. Policy is policy, but petty authority is petty authority, and worth exactly as little as you think it is.
That store is now out of business, and went under only a handful of years after I failed to get hired there. Maybe I dodged a bullet, maybe I didn't. Insofar as I was ever made aware the reason they tanked was not necessarily due to staffing issues, but we can always hope and dream anyway.
That was an amazingly stupid and likely sycophantic manager. You dodged a bullet either way. Hope you are well now!
The keys are attached to your bootstraps, you've just got to pull them hard enough. Everything works precisely as Founding Father Jesus intended.
Somehow the bootstraps don't apply to companies.