'You will not be hearing back from her': HR has major hiring fail after offering job to candidate who is no longer alive

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    Font - Offered a job to a dead person today Off-Topic / Other I work for a university that has an internal program to hire retirees for part-time jobs. This program was started over a decade ago and is pretty popular. They make $18/hr minimum, and they, of course, can't be on the insurance or partake in the 503b. It's mainly reception/secretarial type work and honestly, the "rent-a-retiree" (lol) program is nice.
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    Font - They have institutional knowledge worth well over $18/hr and are for some reason generally more motivated in their part-time job than they were in their full-time job. I feel like I should have done my Masters's Capstone on this topic. lol.
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    Font - So there's an individual in my HR dept that does retiree benefit and part of their job is tracking who is and is not interested in returning to work and what their skill set is for job placement. I look at the spreadsheet in Box (i didn't say it's a sophisticated system, lol) and see someone with admin experience. We need a receptionist 2-3 days a week, she only wanted to work 2 days a week, it was a perfect fit.
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    Font - I emailed this individual telling her about the job to see if she was interested. I mentioned in my team meeting during "round table" that I had reached out to this lady. 1 long-time employee on my team looks at me and started laughing. Tells me "you will not be hearing back from her and we are not hiring her". I of course ask "why?". He informed me "Well she died in December of 2022 of cancer and her obituary was in our Alumni magazine" *which is published by my office.
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    Font - I did email the HR retiree rep to let them know to update the spreadsheet and remove this woman. TLDR: emailed a retiree to offer them a part-time position, they died in December of last year.
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    Human body - deathdisco_89. 2 hr. ago Candidates ghosting is out of control.
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    Font - Jaded Promotion8806 5 hr. ago I also work in a place that deals with a lot of retiree engagement and this happens all the time. People in our system who are 110+ years old because there's no real way to remove them unless we just happen to hear through the grapevine.
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    Font - erich1510 4 hr. ago Only in low cost of living state rural Missouri can HR look at this and think "lol ya we're totally not exploiting elders and our country's stinginess when it comes to funding adequate retirement programs"
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    Font - holtpj OP 3 hr. ago I don't disagree that retirees ideally would not need to come back to work But in any state "to be fair" some retirees return because they're bored or need purpose.. remember you need to retire to something, not from something. I've seen people in my department retire and 6 months later they're asking to come back a few days a week for something to do.
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    Font - New-Pack56261 hr. ago Yes, there are people who are bored and go back to work. However, there are a concerning amount of retirees who have to choose between eating or taking their medications. It's just a broad issue.
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    Font - New-Pack5626. 1 hr. ago I think their point was that they should be compensated equally retired or not. Ideally, the university should focus on filling positions not dividing them up into part time jobs. There are so many people in academia looking for jobs.
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    Font - In the WashU doctorate program, I've known many people who are about to graduate without a job lined up. Applied to many positions without any luck. I wonder why they do this instead.
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    Font - vegdeg 21 min. ago Not sure why you are getting hate for this. It is quite common to see retirees rejoin the org in volunteer positions because after 3-6 months they find that they are bored and have nothing going on. It is not for you to solve a retirement crisis nor to fix things like social security etc.
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    Font - You need people, you are reaching out to people you know qualify and they can accept your proposition or continue on with their lives. Know that lots of us on here do not judge or assume you are being anything but benevolent in your approach.
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    Font - ClassyBroadMSP . 2 hr. ago My husband worked for the local university before he died. He had since been invited to join the alumni association (he did go to school there, but...) and I just got an invitation for him to join the retiree organization. He died four years ago. And never retired.

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