Australian Mom Denied Cell Phone - For Being a Mom

[Don Quixote]

i thought we were done with the excrement, but not in australia

Butcher, baker, candlestick maker -- all noble professions, indeed. Stay-at-home Mom? Well, get a real job. At least, that's what one Australian mom was told when she went to buy a cell phone. Lyndal Fair, a thirty-six-year-old mother of three, wanted to purchase a mobile phone, presumably to keep track of her brood, to call their schools and doctors and to be available in an emergency. Not good enough, said Vodafone -- they don't sell phones to moms.

In fact, the store employees suggested she get her husband to purchase the phone under his name for her. Sound familiar? "I couldn't believe it. It was like being back in the '50s," said Mrs. Fair. "Being a mum is a full-time job and it's a very hard job - the hardest job you can have - because if you get it wrong, the ramifications for everyone are enormous," she added.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

They have policies on who they sell phones to?

WTF?

 

[Don Quixote]

They have policies on who they sell phones to?

WTF?

http://www.parentdish.com/2008/12/1...g-a-mom/?icid=100214839x1215404724x1201040788

 

[Damocles]

LOL. Go beg your husband to get you a phone. Do you have permission and stuff?

 

[uscitizen]

I did not realize that Baptists and Mormans ran Australia?

 

[tinfoil]

don't you think it has more to do with a lack of verifiable income? She was trying to enter into a phone contract. Her mother status was beside the point. What's wrong is denying someone an essential service becuase they can't prove they'll be able to pay for it? Welcome to planet earth.

 

[uscitizen]

don't you think it has more to do with a lack of verifiable income? She was trying to enter into a phone contract. Her mother status was beside the point. What's wrong is denying someone an essential service becuase they can't prove they'll be able to pay for it? Welcome to planet earth.

Darned good Point tinfoil, that was in Australia not the USA, where college kids get credit cards.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Yeah it was most likely due to lack of credit, etc...

They are trying to make it into something it isn't. This is bad reporting even by media standards; it's an outright lie.

 

[uscitizen]

Yeah it was most likely due to lack of credit, etc...

They are trying to make it into something it isn't. This is bad reporting even by media standards; it's an outright lie.

How did you determine that? There does not seem to be enough information in that article to come to that conclusion.

 

[Cancel 2018. 3]

I did not realize that Baptists and Mormans ran Australia?

you mean muslims

 

[uscitizen]

you mean muslims

them too. All religio nutz groups that descriminate against women.

 

[Damocles]

them too. All religio nutz groups that descriminate against women.

And Aussies and New Zealanders. Can't forget those religio nutjobs.

Does the lady have a demonstrable income? That is likely the reason she was refused, not because she was a "mum"...

 

[a11n]

I seruoisly doubt being a stay-at-home mom is difficult.

 

[Don Quixote]

don't you think it has more to do with a lack of verifiable income? She was trying to enter into a phone contract. Her mother status was beside the point. What's wrong is denying someone an essential service becuase they can't prove they'll be able to pay for it? Welcome to planet earth.

the complete article states that 'it is the companies policy not to sell cell phones to stay at home mothers' not just because they may not be able to pay

 

[Don Quixote]

I seruoisly doubt being a stay-at-home mom is difficult.

depends on the age(s) of the children

 

[Socrtease]

the complete article states that 'it is the companies policy not to sell cell phones to stay at home mothers' not just because they may not be able to pay

I imagine there is more than one company that is in the business of selling cell phones. If they are smart one of them will GIVE her a phone and service and run a special for all stay at home moms with the proper credit and such. This looks to me like a golden opportunity to cash in on a bad decision by a competitor.