This sign in the window of a very modern Milano café reads: Looking for young ladies. Maximum age 25. Evening work. Waiting tables.
There's a tie for the aspect that I appreciate most about this sign. I can't decide whether it's the sheer brazenness of the qualifications they've listed as necessary for employment (being a female and being under 25) or if it's the absolute impossibility of this sign ever showing up in the United States.
The Milanese don't ask much of their city. Just the freedom to drive around on the sidewalks when street traffic is heavy and the social permission to smoke cigarettes with abandon despite international health warnings. As long as these basic rights are guaranteed, equal opportunity hiring doesn't seem to come up.
Besides, the work year is only 11 months long in Italy. What with everyone on vacation in August, there's not much time to focus on workplace improvements.
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