Something I have an interest in, just wondered your opinions.I mean any discrimination in general, nothing specific. Can be sexual, gender, age, ethnicity etc.
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Something I have an interest in, just wondered your opinions.I mean any discrimination in general, nothing specific. Can be sexual, gender, age, ethnicity etc.
Yeah everyone thinks I get the most hours because I'm a guy.
Fact is its true, and unfair. :(
You don't care because you're a sexist pig!
It does but if it's something obvious like an all-woman shop they can have a clause which means they can turn away men. But in high fashion shops (I mean high not primark or topshop/man or something) they only hire people that look like models and even in lower down high street shops they usually put fat ugly people in the stockrooms rather than the shop floor.
Yeah, in some circumstances I can't blame them though if they're a relatively small company and need everyone working hard then you're going to pick and choose who you hire very carefully.
It does! Because im male, and rockhard ive gotta carry loads of heavy stuff.
My workplace is full of girls
Awww, poor you :( :P
not as much as it used to but of course, it still does. there's a pizza place in my town that will only hire women to bus.
yeah but there have been acts etc to prevent it like sexual discrimination act in 1975 (i think, my sociology kicking in) but yeah no matter what laws and acts are implemented it will always exist, i think.
Ofc it does. :P
why is it ofc in this day and age?!?!?
There are many forms of discrimination in the work place. I've sadly seen it, I have watched how someone who had become a little power hungry, was slowly pushed into finding an alternative job elsewhere. Being excluded is something else I've noticed, excluded because of age. Good policies and procedures are in place, but unless you take action, being discrimated against will continue.
It does exist. Most of the time its not intentional... But it just occurs. But on the rare occasion, people are singled out and treated differently. Which is just plain wrong.
Do something about it then.Quote:
Originally Posted by Immenseman
I'm afraid you've either quoted the wrong post or your English is very weak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wootzeh
Discrimination occurs in all walks of life, and it'll remain like that for a long time.
Defo, from what I seen of offices I think it certainly does.
You need to discriminate to an extent in order to find the most effective and accessible group of employees.
Discrimination will never go away. If you think about it logically, people all want to do well in life right. Nice cars, nice houses, nice clothes, nice partner.
To do this you need to somehow give yourself a advantage, one way is by singling people out so that you can have control of a situation, or two put it into context for example, who gets the better jobs to do during work hours, putting those down to do the jobs that may require you to get your hands dirty.
Like at work a girl had twisted her ankle on a drunken night out, she got to sit on the fitting rooms all day on a chair, doing nothing. I broke my toe told my manager i needed light duties, i was stood up behind a till serving customers all day.
Another example is Im always sent up to the stockroom to put away all the stuff other staff leave because apparently, its quicker for me to do because i can reorganise the bins to fit it all in, and i already know how and where everything goes back.
I have posed the question to management, Im willing to show people how and what to do as long as they listen, but it just goes in one ear and out the other, regardless if they are lazy.
Of course it does, especially age and gender
I would say it does, but not as often as it used to, usually now its positive discrimination now rather than negative, but negative still does exist.
Just in case anyone doesnt know, 'positive discrimination' is treating someone overly positive because of their orientation, like giving someone a job not based on their abilities but because of their race or gender, its like doing something overly nice to avoid the possibility of discrimination of the negative kind.
I would say it's still there.
Neither, you seem to be questioning everything someone says. They're not even good questions, just stupid ones. So if you care so much about it. Do something.Quote:
Originally Posted by Immenseman
It's called playing the devils advocate like I have explained in the other thread. I doubt you're aware of what that means so for your benefit it's to ask questions to provoke debate. Funnily enough this is a debates forum. Think before you post or you just get embarrassed.