“Getting something that’s authentically funny and not the latest gag of the day, but something that has an innately funny voice and real wit — that’s really rare,” he said. “To see her now bringing the funny as a food writer, I wish I had thought of it long ago.”
He, like others who have worked with her, says Ms. Nunn has never been one to hold back. That helps explain her relentless Twitter campaign against ageism in hiring, which often targets The Washington Post and its owner, Jeff Bezos, whom she has also blamed for a lack of frisée at his Whole Foods Markets.
Her crusade started when she applied for a job at the paper in 2018. An editor mistakenly sent an impersonal rejection letter explaining that the job required someone with more experience and a significant number of years at a well-known publication. It ended with a cheery “Keep writing! Good luck with your career.”
Ms. Nunn was incensed, and posted that sentiment on Twitter, along with her age. “I mean, if it wasn’t ageism, why was I on auto-reject?” she said. “I had three times the experience they needed.”
The tweet quickly turned into a discussion about age discrimination, and went viral. Others of her generation shared tales of never even getting a call back for an interview, even though they were more than qualified for jobs. A cause was born.
“It’s just soul-annihilating,” she said of ageism. “I’m not anti-younger people. I’m pro-older people in the mix.”
The editor who had sent the letter followed with an apology, which Ms. Nunn also posted. Her later applications for jobs at the Post, including one in the Food section, never resulted in an interview. She has targeted the paper ever since, contacting various editors to no avail and even filing a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which she knew wouldn’t really go anywhere.
Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/22/dining/emily-nunn-salad-substack.html
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