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Nicole Mamo, director of Devonwood Recruitment was stunned when a job centre in Thetford, Norfolk, said she could not include the phrase 'reliable and hard working' in her advert
PCUK alert
You can’t make this stuff up!
I know a lampoon when I see one, and I remain convinced that this MUST BE satire. Any other conclusion might induce permanent neural damage.
Obammy must’ve gone through that agency.
Reliable and hard-working are vague concepts. Truth is everyone probably considers themselves reliable (just as Obama considers himself a man of the people).
A better tactic is to advertise for some concrete measurement: “Looking for people that will be late for work no more than once a month and show up 10 minutes early all other days.”
“She ended the job offer by saying that any applicants for the post ‘must be very reliable and hard-working’.”
Not only discriminated against the unreliable individuals, but also the lazy ones. Sounds like she needs a little diversity training.
If remember correctly (because it was years ago standing in one of these gazing at white cards for a job) the ‘job centres’ in the UK are ‘government entities’.
Does the Federal Election Commission have a similar policy regarding candidates?
I can see it now: “Wanted: Neurosurgeon. No experience necessary. Will train.”
And here’s a thought, why be concerned about unreliable people suing? Chances are they won’t show up for the trial so, why worry?
I’ve slipped in a wormhole haven’t I? Tell me I have. Tell me I somehow tripped over a rock and am on some other plane of the multiverse and this is NOT HAPPENING.
Please?
This is satire, right?
Onion? Scrappleface?
Let’s see now...
If you hire somebody *knowing* that they’re unreliable then you can’t *fire* them for being unreliable, right?
And unreliable people typically don’t show up for work, right?
SO if I get the job then I don’t have to show up and they can’t fire me and I still get paid.
If I don’t get the job then I can sue for discrimination damages and get the money I would have earned by not showing up anyway.
Even I can hold down a job under those circumstances. Sign me up!
We watch some sort of a UK version of COPs here in Sweden. The cops drive around with tire pressure gauges and measure people's tire pressure when they pull them over. They are serious as a heart attack about it too. Never mind the fact, that every other car they pull over is driven by an illegal.
There is no way back for the UK. I hate to say it but Islam may be an improvement at this stage.