#7 Truth in Advertising

[SCHULTZ () CDDIS GSFC NASA GOV <SCHULTZ () CDDIS GSFC NASA GOV>]

In YSN #1315, Jay Banks writes,
> ALL "green card" ads are the same, ........... and ALL (not "many" 
> or "most" as one poster said) are for jobs that DON'T EXIST.
> So the thing to do is ignore them, not flame about them!

All I ask for is a little truth in advertising. If the state agency or
the employer himself is advertising a job for legal reasons and not
because there is any intention of actually hiring someone who answers
such an ad, they could make such a statement at the bottom of the ad.
Lacking that, I would like to ask the American Physical Society to
either refrain from publishing such ads in Physics Today, or to
require such a statement as a condition for running the ad.

Dan Schultz

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