From the UK:
When she ran the ad past a job centre, she was told she couldn’t ask for ‘reliable’ and ‘hard-working’ applicants because it could be offensive to unreliable people.
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Mrs Mamo, a divorced mother of two, added: ‘I had to battle to have “must speak English”, which they also said was discriminatory.‘In the end, I had to write “must speak English due to health and safety reasons” because they’re dealing with hazardous materials.’
Silly me, I always thought employers have to be very discriminating in order to hire the best candidates.
Still, to me it seems somewhat superfluous to put “hard working and reliable” in an employment ad anyway. I mean, of course an employer wants only hard working and reliable people — that’s a given. It’s just a bit silly that anybody would worry about offending lazy screw-ups. Those types are usually not very self-analytical, so they probably wouldn’t be aware enough to feel discriminated against.
As for the English requirement, I think I would add “read and write” English as well. Oops, that would discriminate against illiterates.
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Don’t mourn them Moosie. Britain and Britains are lost in a bizarro PC psycho-scape. It’s the result of them allowing fabian marxists to hijack commonlaw civil rights and the fact they’re too chickenshit to rebel.
You deserve the government you put up with.
More PC degeneracy from the mothership:
http://tinyurl.com/y9hhlt3
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