Not even considered for interview

markwilliams82

Hey everyone, hope someone can give me some advice on here because at this moment in time I am rather :mad:

Well from the start, I currently work as a warehouse operative and am looking to leave as my current job has no recognition, and is very quiet at the moment.
I have got 5 years work experience,most of which has been warehouse orientated but until my current job, nothing warehouse specific.

Basically, I saw a job advertised at a local company for a Trainee Warehouse and Distribution employee. It is also the same company for which my dad works. The job requirements required the person to be computer literate, have a fork lift truck license, health and safety knowledge and be a team member, all of these requirements I meet and i am able to meet the points specified in the job description too.
So I thought I'd apply for it so that I can gain some actual warehouse training (something that I've not actually had) and so I can work for a company which has some good career prospects....In total 108 people applied for the job, but today the supervisor for the role, who is working through the applicants, pulled my dad to the side and had a word with him. He said that he isn't even going to consider me for the role as I am too over qualified and because he doesn't want to employ someone who has a relative working for the company, and because of this i would receive a letter through the post to confirm this.

When my dad was told this, he was quite mad at the supervisor, and he pointed out that there are a couple of men working at this company with either a son or relative working there too.

Do I have every reason to be :mad: ??? Do I have any foot to stand on to take further action?

LittleVoice

Without commenting on the rights and wrongs of the policy (I'll leave others to do that), I would be very, very annoyed that your affairs were raised with your father by the supervisor.

Your application is your application and nothing to do with your father. (OK, it would appear in reality that you will have discussed it with him but that is not for the supervisor to assume. Even if it were a known fact that your father was aware - maybe trying to "put in a good word" on your behalf - that does not give the supervisor permission to tell him how he is treating your application before he has responded to you.)

Unless your work experience includes time when you were also in full-time education, you are at least 21 years old now and deserve to be treated as a separate individual and not an extension of your father. Even if you were 16, you should still be treated in the same way.

Perhaps I've moved into the area of the supervisor's policy! What I also note is that it may be the supervisor's policy rather than a company policy. If 108 people applied for the job, I would think it would have been very easy for this man to have simply said that at least a couple of other people were more obviously already suited for the post and need not have said anything about his "family unfriendly" policy. He's rather silly in my view.

ohreally

A dichotomy may exist here in terms of your father being both a company employee and having a parental interest by virtue of your failed application.
I agree absolutely with LVs comments however i would add that perhaps your dad gets the company recruitment policy, however, regardless of it's content it may appear that having an employed relative is no barrier to employment and to this end your dad could raise the matter with HR through his union as there may be consistency issues to be addressed not least training for the supervisor.