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[ramAnag]

Swale "Well the Lincolnshire mayor is gormless, talentless, opportunistic self serving idiot"

I'm sure he speaks highly of you too

He’s a she, GP…Andrea Jenkyns.

Honestly…tattoos and multi coloured hair? Unless you two are going to suggest that it’s sensible to not appoint people because you don’t like their tie/suit/shoes, might it not make more sense to judge on little things like ability and qualifications?

In thirty five plus years within the education system I can truthfully only think of one person I’ve known who, imo, has got to where they’ve got by virtue of ticking three diversity backgrounds rather than by virtue of their ability.
I’d also suggest that about 40-50 years ago there were loads of blokes gaining teaching qualifications and going into primary education because they knew that their gender alone gave them an advantage in the promotion stakes.
Fortunately that has been addressed, gender now plays little part - except perhaps in specific posts - in promotion and so it should surely be. Indeed shouldn’t we be striving for a world where race/religion/disability become barely noticeable unless they somehow have a direct impact on a person’s ability to perform the job?

[Andy_Faber]

He?s a she, GP?Andrea Jenkyns.

Honestly?tattoos and multi coloured hair? Unless you two are going to suggest that it?s sensible to not appoint people because you don?t like their tie/suit/shoes, might it not make more sense to judge on little things like ability and qualifications?

Can you please, just for once, reread my post without the normal prejudice and identify where I said hair colour would impact my decision making?

[ramAnag]

Can you please, just for once, reread my post without the normal prejudice and identify where I said hair colour would impact my decision making?

You felt the need to raise it in the context of GP mentioning tattoos being a no-go for potential employees. I haven’t actually suggested anything other than that there are more important things to judge people on.

[Andy_Faber]

You felt the need to raise it in the context of GP mentioning tattoos being a no-go for potential employees. I haven?t actually suggested anything other than that there are more important things to judge people on.

I offered it as a personal add-on to a piece of factual clarification to GP?s comment - i didn?t ?raise? it, I mentioned it. And don?t pretend you don?t judge in a similar way, everyone does.

[ramAnag]

I offered it as a personal add-on to a piece of factual clarification to GP?s comment - i didn?t ?raise? it, I mentioned it. And don?t pretend you don?t judge in a similar way, everyone does.

‘I didn’t raise it, I mentioned it.’ World of difference. LOL

[Ramshank72]

Interestingly I entirely agree that recruitment should be colour blind (and gender bling, ***ualty blind etc) but I will never hire anyone with a visible tattoo. Is this discriminatory?

Only if you demonstrably show preference to hire people with invisible tattoos.

[Andy_Faber]

‘I didn’t raise it, I mentioned it.’ World of difference. LOL

"raise" is not typically considered an antonym for "mention." While they can be used in similar contexts, "raise" is more about bringing something to light or addressing it, whereas "mention" is about a passing reference or acknowledgment

You were clearly a metalwork teacher or similar

[ramAnag]

"raise" is not typically considered an antonym for "mention." While they can be used in similar contexts, "raise" is more about bringing something to light or addressing it, whereas "mention" is about a passing reference or acknowledgment

You were clearly a metalwork teacher or similar

Both tiresome and completely incorrect. Well done. Also a little disrespectful to ‘metalwork teachers or similar’.
Still, at least I seem to have mastered full stops and capital letters.

[swaledale]

Swale "Well the Lincolnshire mayor is gormless, talentless, opportunistic self serving idiot"

I'm sure he speaks highly of you too

As Ra has said, he is a she and I suggest you look at her acceptance speech, comments she has made in the past, her behaviour in the past and then question my description of her.

Still its entirely possible you think Truss was a genius and Johnson isn't a bumbling, lying adulterous ****.

[swaledale]

Both tiresome and completely incorrect. Well done. Also a little disrespectful to ‘metalwork teachers or similar’.
Still, at least I seem to have mastered full stops and capital letters.

You also don't condone the "right sort of bullying" either!