@Trillian Or course there are people willing to jump on any excuse to file a suit, but I don’t think this non-event is likely to provide an inspiration they didn’t already have. And again, filing a suit is not winning a suit.
The reason the article is inaccurate and half finished is because it is entirely based on the word of a single person, they provide no supporting statements whatsoever and do not provide any explanation from the company in question as to what may or may not have happened. They then toss a line in at the very end saying that the ad was actually placed with the original text, but it is pretty clear they intentionally held that until the very end and made as big a deal about the story as they could because this kind of thing excites people and sells papers.
And the reason I don’t think it s Political Correctness gone mad is because that implies that this is a symptom of a widespread societal problem and not simply a single isolated incident, likely a dumb mistake and misunderstanding. Yes, it is possible that this individual acted out of some belief in what is or is not politically correct, but that isn’t the same as there being some widely held belief or policy that unreliable people should not be discriminated against. That’s still an absurd notion, and one odd and unexplained incident doesn’t mean that we can expect to see more cases of job postings not being allowed to request reliable workers.