Tbh we’re prob a solid 3 on the justice-seeking scale here

Listen, you don’t even need to keep up with all The Markup drama to be fully horrified by this EXTREMELY freaked up hiring spreadsheet, now published by the Columbia Journalism Review, that managers were apparently using to evaluate applicants.

People on Twitter are obvi cackling over the poor soul who got a 1 in “understands journalism” but we are going to need several cool washcloths to the forehead before we get over the “famous?” (question mark theirs)  category and also how apparently you can be ranked on your “justice-seeking” traits on a scale of 1 to 5 now??

Anyway this sheet is just a sublimely pathological cherry on top of the sinking PR ship sundae happening with what was formerly the buzziest tech journalism startup, but seeing it for ourselves just convinces us that A) more of these sheets exist out there for sure, and B) we get that HR’s gotta do what HR’s gotta do, but there’s something just sooooo stone cold about seeing real live journalists’ qualifications boiled down into cells and numbers and whether you’re “non-male” or not.