Firm CANNOT advertise for reliable workers !

britexpat
By britexpat

When will the PC brigade let up ??????? Isn't this verging on the stupid ?

When it comes to hiring staff, there are plenty of legal pitfalls employers need to watch out for these days.

So recruitment agency boss Nicole Mamo was especially careful to ensure her advert for hospital workers did not offend on grounds of race, age or sexual orientation.

However, she hadn't reckoned on discriminating against a wholly different section of the community - the completely useless.

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 because it could be offensive to unreliable people.

'In my 15 years in recruitment I haven't heard anything so ridiculous,' Mrs Mamo said yesterday.

'Even the woman at the jobcentre agreed it was ridiculous but explained it was policy because they could get sued for being dicriminatory against unreliable people.

'She told me they'd had lots of problems with people taking them to court for adverts stating something like "would suit school leaver".'

Daily Mail

By GodFather.• 28 Jan 2010 07:54
GodFather.

May be the company was planning to hire few of my fellow colleagues..:)

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By king_qatar• 28 Jan 2010 01:39
king_qatar

thats free press

trouble free, risk free

By snessy• 27 Jan 2010 20:21
snessy

Absolutely pathetic, PC brigade at work again...

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By heero_yuy2• 27 Jan 2010 20:15
heero_yuy2

"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

By bleu• 27 Jan 2010 17:38
bleu

timebandit... NO!

They pay QR500 for a ticket to enter in the raffle to be interviewed.

Then you pick 20 tickets, and then send SMS messages "YOU HAVE WON A CHANCE TO GET THE JOB! please come to the interview at xx:xx am on XX/XX/2010"

By KHATTAK• 27 Jan 2010 17:18
KHATTAK

Good Idea timebandit...but then they'll be blamed for being RUDE :(

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By timebandit• 27 Jan 2010 17:16
timebandit

Here is an idea. Simply state what the job is, with no reference to who it would be suitable for. But take a deposit for the cost of your time before the interview starts. If they are time wasters you keep the deposit.

By KHATTAK• 27 Jan 2010 17:14
KHATTAK

Damn...they cant even call "Humans" to apply *smack*

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By anonymous• 27 Jan 2010 17:12
anonymous

I think I have to flag you, Jack. You just posted two offensive words.

By anonymous• 27 Jan 2010 17:09
anonymous

Lol...what next...

The words...reliable and hard working...are both equally offensive...lol

By anonymous• 27 Jan 2010 17:07
anonymous

Even if they included living beings, the dead might get offended.

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By anonymous• 27 Jan 2010 17:05
anonymous

Even if they included the sex, the other sex might be offended!

By anonymous• 27 Jan 2010 17:02
anonymous

"I'm back, simple as that"

By KHATTAK• 27 Jan 2010 16:58
KHATTAK

If they need Doctors, they should not mention it...what if Engineers get offended? ;)

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By Victory_278692• 27 Jan 2010 16:43
Victory_278692

very hardly working......similarly highly qualified degrade less qualified :(

By anonymous• 27 Jan 2010 16:41
anonymous

They should not include well qualified also, what about the illiterates, they will get offended..

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By Victory_278692• 27 Jan 2010 16:38
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Victory_278692

with proper disclaimers if feel offended by certain people or discriminating against a wholly different section of the community. Sound crazy too.....offenders are unreliable :D

BTW...welcome back Brit, where were you, all female fans were searching you, including DA!

By hannah981• 27 Jan 2010 16:32
hannah981

too too funny! The UK gone CRAZY! It never ceases to make me giggle!

By hopscotch• 27 Jan 2010 14:29
hopscotch

lol! But really don't most employers want to discriminate against unreliable applicants? too funny.

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