Walla Walla (WA) – Human resources experts are growing increasingly concerned about the growing vulnerabilty of moronic job seekers during down economies like the current raging Great Depression 2.0.

They point to examples like Tony Mosley, who is currently unemployed and recently failed yet again to impress a recruiter in the Human Resources Department of a major prospective employer.  Mosley, 36, embodies many of the same characteristics of the “suddenly employable” who would not normally be hired unless an employer needed to fill a vacancy quickly despite the risk of not hiring the highest caliber employee.

Mosley previously worked as a Customer Service Specialist for the Little Giant Vacuum Company of Walla Walla, Washington and has been unemployed for eight months now, but has managed to earn several interviews during that time.

“The economy’s hard right now.  But I’ve been interviewing.  And until Obama extends the bailouts to individuals, I guess I have to keep looking.  They say that getting past HR is the easy part, but I never seem to clear that hurdle,” he said.

As it turns out, Mosley, who got his job with Little Giant via an executive-level uncle, has made lasting impressions – but of the wrong kind.  Recruiters for nearly every major prospective employer in the Pacific Northwest have rejected him after initial interviews.

Apparently, at various times, Mosley has undermined himself by complaining about his former job, daydreaming during the interview, eating crackers while speaking, and excessive flatulence, among many other blunders.

One common theme in every interview attemped by Mosley and those like him is the belief that somehoe the job seeker is entitled to the position simply because he/she doesn’t currently have one.  In short, say headhunters, Mosley has become a microcosm of incompetent, poorly trained nitwits possessing bloated senses of self-entitlement.

“He looked the part enough, and his resume was OK, but as soon as he opened his mouth, it was all downhill,” said Gloria Ruiz-Tuscalera at a seminar for Women in Recruiting.  Ruiz-Tuscalera was the latest recruiter who declined to forward Mosley’s information to the hiring manager.  “If he’d had toilet paper stuck to his shoes, it wouldn’t have been any worse.  He even had the nerve to ask me if there were any attractive women in our firm.  I mean, who asks that in an interview?  Besides, what does that say about me?  Yes, I’m married, but I like to think I’m not some fat pig.”

Other recruiters shared Ruiz-Tuscalera’s low opinion.  A recruiter for Boeing, who requested anonymity, indicated that when Mosley wasn’t staring at her chest, he practically begged for a job, as his extended unemployment has forced him to move back in with his parents.  Compounding matters, he picked his nose while groveling.

“That’s nothing,” said a recruiter for Alcoa, Co. “When I interviewed him, he propped his feet up on my desk, and promptly stopped paying attention to the interview.   He just spaced out.  I don’t know if he was on drugs or just stupid, but his head was somewhere else.  So to cross him up, I asked him, out of the blue, what ethical considerations the CERN physicists should have when repairing their particle accelerator.  His answer? ‘How the [expletive deleted] should I know?’  The guy actually dropped an f-bomb in the middle of the interview and wonders why he didn’t get hired.”

“At least he didn’t insult your children,” countered Ruiz-Tuscalera.  “My son is in the Navy, and he made a wisecrack about the Navy taking the Army to the action so they could do all the fighting.  I think he thought it was funny, but I was genuinely offended.  The really sad thing is, in a better economy, he might have gotten hired anyway just because anybody better already had a job.”

For his part, Mosley believes that if he could just get past the recruiters, he could impress a manager and earn gainful employment.  “Those HR airheads wouldn’t know a good employee if one bit them in the backside – which I might do next time,” he said.  “At least then, I know I’ll have made an impression.”