Putting On A Good Public Face

For almost five years I have made trips to Chihuahua, Mexico to visit a plant that the company I work for operates. During that time there have been a considerable number of changes at the plant and in the city. But one thing is always the same.

The receptionist who greets visitors at the main entrance to the facility is always an attractive young woman. Actually more than attractive. Gorgeous is probably a more apt description. There have been at least four of these women during my visits and they always fit the same mold. Beautiful,leggy, babes with killer smiles who aren't afraid to flirt a bit. It is not a coincidence.

At one time companies in the US practised the same sort of discriminatory hiring for such positions and a few probably still do. Janet Reno types need not apply. But today most US firms consider themselves beyond such blantant sexist hiring and probably also fear a law suit if they insisted on hiring only the beautiful babies. In Mexico no such fears or enlightened thinking has yet to take hold. It's yet another example of how even though Mexico is in many ways becoming a modern, technological advanced country in other areas the country seems to be in another era. More on this in later posts.

All I know is that this freedom to put on a pretty face for the public is a damn refreshing change from the corporate political correctness all too evident in the US. And the view ain't bad either.