joeb Posted May 20, 2013 Posted May 20, 2013 I found this in the Readers Digest and they gave attribution for the blurb to dailymail.co.uk. The following help wanted ad for a hospital was rejected as discriminatory. See if you can find the offending part of the ad. Quote: Domestic cleaner required for local hospital. Must be fluent in English for health and safety reasons. Previous experience preferred. Must be reliable and hardworking. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
joeb Posted May 20, 2013 Author Posted May 20, 2013 Nope. It wasn't, dgrimm. Good guess though. That was my first guess too. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
Arwen Posted May 20, 2013 Posted May 20, 2013 Is it the word "domestic"? Does that suggest a person who is married, or at least someone who has their own home and a spouse or family to look after. . . A single person, who lives alone or with their parents, is never referred to as a "domestic" cleaner. Quote Live for God . . . Love people
joeb Posted May 20, 2013 Author Posted May 20, 2013 So far, nobody has hit it. This is so weird that it is going to take a few more guesses. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
LifeHiscost Posted May 20, 2013 Posted May 20, 2013 I found this in the Readers Digest and they gave attribution for the blurb to dailymail.co.uk. The following help wanted ad for a hospital was rejected as discriminatory. See if you can find the offending part of the ad. Quote: Domestic cleaner required for local hospital. Must be fluent in English for health and safety reasons. Previous experience preferred. Must be reliable and hardworking. The part that would be offensive would be the perceived inference that anyone not speaking English would likely be less than healthy and therefor unsafe. God cares! Quote Lift Jesus up!!
joeb Posted May 20, 2013 Author Posted May 20, 2013 Sorry guys, it's still a no go. This one strains the imagination. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
joeb Posted May 20, 2013 Author Posted May 20, 2013 JOEB would it be reliable and hardworking??? dgrimm60 Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner folks. The ad was deemed discriminatory because it discriminated against "unreliable people"..... This is where we're headed folks. We becoming more and more like Europe. More and more politically correct, and more and more socialistic. So, be prepared for this type of thing here too as we are not that far behind the UK. Pretty soon, in the way they're going, it will be deemed discriminatory to not hire drug addicts, alcoholics, criminals, etc.... Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
Arwen Posted May 20, 2013 Posted May 20, 2013 It's the PC world. Quote Live for God . . . Love people
joeb Posted May 20, 2013 Author Posted May 20, 2013 Local doesn't say anything about where any prospective employee has to live. All it has to do with is where the hospital itself is located in relation to where the original ad was run. However, that has nothing to do with why the ad was deemed discriminatory. It was deemed disciminatory solely upon the word unreliable. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
joeb Posted May 20, 2013 Author Posted May 20, 2013 JOEB well that is really off the wall for sure dgrimm60 That it is. I couldn't believe it when I first saw it. If an employer cannot eliminate unreliable people in their hiring process how in the world can they expect to run an efficient, reliable organization? Do we really want hospitals to be staffed by unreliable people? It's insane to think that we would. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
Members phkrause Posted May 20, 2013 Members Posted May 20, 2013 I found this in the Readers Digest and they gave attribution for the blurb to dailymail.co.uk. The following help wanted ad for a hospital was rejected as discriminatory. See if you can find the offending part of the ad. Quote: Domestic cleaner required for local hospital. Must be fluent in English for health and safety reasons. Previous experience preferred. Must be reliable and hardworking. Must be reliable and hardworking Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Liz Posted May 20, 2013 Posted May 20, 2013 I wonder if they would seriously consider you for the job though, if you admitted to being unreliable and a slacker? Quote For what will a man be profited, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his soul? Mat. 16:26Please, support the JDRF and help find a cure for Type 1 Diabetes. Please, support the March of Dimes.
Neil D Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 This is where we're headed folks. We becoming more and more like Europe. More and more politically correct, and more and more socialistic. So, be prepared for this type of thing here too as we are not that far behind the UK. Excuse me.... Where do you get the idea that we are becoming "more and more socialistic"? What is "socialistic" in your opinion? How do you arrive to that conclusion? What criteria are you using.... ....and yes, I am biting.... Quote Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. Â George Bernard Shaw Â
Members phkrause Posted May 21, 2013 Members Posted May 21, 2013 Originally Posted By: joeb This is where we're headed folks. We becoming more and more like Europe. More and more politically correct, and more and more socialistic. So, be prepared for this type of thing here too as we are not that far behind the UK. Excuse me.... Where do you get the idea that we are becoming "more and more socialistic"? What is "socialistic" in your opinion? How do you arrive to that conclusion? What criteria are you using.... ....and yes, I am biting.... You know Neil, the funny thing about that is, I have family that live in Europe, and they say the same thing! But the other way around, that Europe is becoming like the USA. Funny how people see things. Quote phkrause When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan. Proverbs 29;2
Igakusei Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 For those not familiar with UK newspapers, the dailymail is about as reliable as the weekly world news. I'd never say that stories like this don't ever happen, but I don't see how the actions of a single person, reported by a notoriously unreliable newspaper, can be said with confidence to accurately represent "where we are going." Quote I believe in life before death
Igakusei Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 You know Neil, the funny thing about that is, I have family that live in Europe, and they say the same thing! But the other way around, that Europe is becoming like the USA. Funny how people see things. I've noticed this in the healthcare debate as there's a significant push in the UK to privatize the NHS. UK doctors largely support socialized medicine and oppose privatization, while US doctors in a mostly privatized system largely support continued privatization and oppose socialization. Almost as if people who have found comfort and stability oppose change in general, and it often has absolutely nothing to do with merit. Quote I believe in life before death
Ted Oplinger Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 without scrolling down first, I will venture to say the offending points are the "reliable and hardworking". The union mentality is to get paid, regardless of reliability and regardless how much work one really puts into the effort. Now, I scroll down to see if I hit the winning answer..... Blessings, Quote "As iron sharpens iron, so also does one man sharpen another" - Proverbs 27:17 "The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended." Ellet J. Waggoner, The Glad Tidings "Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" - John Wayne "The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated" - Ronald Reagan
Ted Oplinger Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 Ding, ding! Knew I nailed it! Quote "As iron sharpens iron, so also does one man sharpen another" - Proverbs 27:17 "The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended." Ellet J. Waggoner, The Glad Tidings "Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" - John Wayne "The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated" - Ronald Reagan
joeb Posted May 21, 2013 Author Posted May 21, 2013 Ding, ding! Knew I nailed it! Sure did. You're a real ding a ling. LOL... I should have known you'd see it right off the bat. Quote Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.Alexis de Tocqueville
Ted Oplinger Posted May 21, 2013 Posted May 21, 2013 It takes an off the bat person to get something off the bat... Blessings, Quote "As iron sharpens iron, so also does one man sharpen another" - Proverbs 27:17 "The offense of the cross is that the cross is a confession of human frailty and sin and of inability to do any good thing. To take the cross of Christ means to depend solely on Him for everything, and this is the abasement of all human pride. Men love to fancy themselves independent. But let the cross be preached, let it be made known that in man dwells no good thing and that all must be received as a gift, and straightway someone is offended." Ellet J. Waggoner, The Glad Tidings "Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway" - John Wayne "The person who pays an ounce of principle for a pound of popularity gets badly cheated" - Ronald Reagan
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