Does H&R Block Discriminate Against The Disabled?
An acquaintance of mine mentioned yesterday that she is offended by H&R Block’s current tax-season ad campaign.
You’ve seen it. There’s an H&R Block representative giving deduction advice to a client and finally the client asks if she does that for everyone and the rep says, “Only for people who work for a living.”
My acquaintance is on disability. She’s not the only person I know who is. Perhaps she’s one of the few I know who doesn’t take advantage of it, but that’s beside the point. The fact is that she was offended by the commercial. She would like to work for a living and she felt that the commercial suggests a kind of discrimination against her ilk as if she’s not worthy of their business because she doesn’t get a 9-5 kind of paycheck or that she wouldn’t get the same kind of service because she doesn’t have a plentiful income.
I caught the commercial after she mentioned it. I hadn’t recalled seeing it bfore — probably because I do my own taxes. I think she’s right about the commercial; it is insulting and belittling.
tags: H&R Block, Discrimination
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