January 27 roundup

7 Comments

  • 1. My, you don’t even begin to scratch the surface of the schadenfreude in those Edwards links.

    2. This is a comment about how much I appreciated clicking the Clarke link.

    Ted Frank
    Cleveland, OH

  • The UK’s labor policy seems to be designed to work by encouraging satirists to take up more productive careers.

  • The UK employment ad story has happened before.

  • Even from a PC perspective prohibiting the use of the word reliable in a job ad doesn’t make any sense. I can’t imagine what group of people they are trying to protect from “discrimination”.

  • In both this case, and the Moriarty case, it seems to be the problem of especially dim intake workers at the Jobcentre who misinterpreted the command “No discriminatory advertisements.” As few are foolish enough to submit a “men-only” or “whites-only” ad, the intake worker’s imagination about the command runs wild.

  • […] first I thought this was from The Onion.  Speaking of Overlawyered, they cite this article from the London Telegraph: Nicole Mamo, 48, wanted to post an advert for a […]

  • “I can’t imagine what group of people they are trying to protect from “discrimination”.”

    That’s easy: the unreliable. Why they are a protected class is another question.