Did they think it was racism-related ?I'll be honest I had to let a few guys go in the last couple of months in a company I work for,all good workers but I did feel it was right to look after the Irish guys first.Might not be the PC thing to do but I was never a fan of that nonsense anyway.I know the lads I let go had planned to work here a few years save their money to build a house etc back home so that played a part in my decision.
The Aussie policy is to employ a native first if possible then so on.
From a company point of view we do want our employee's to stay with us a long time especially with all the resources and money that we put into training and development with our employee's.
Surely we have a right to keep the person who wants to stay for life with us rather than the person who will leave when he has saved enough money to build his house back in his native Country.I know this is not the case for all non Irish workers but there is alot who do think that way.
Top class writing
On the OP's post . .
Personally I think the world is PC mad. Theres no balance or clarity on what exactly is racist or not.
Oops, am about to take it away from OP's post...sorry (and sorry for the ellipsis, I forget who that offends on here).
But two things for me:
1. PCism is largely a media creation. A large proportion of what is supposed to be "PC gone mad" was fabricated by the press or even the press failing to spot satirical writings which they adopted as the truth. Unfortunately there has been a mass uptake of it being the case and has led to a fear of offence.
2. There is no boundary. It's difficult to say (at least in a short statement conducted on the internet instead of down the pub) why "white trash" isn't offensive yet "black piece of dirt" is. To be honest: it just is. There's a plethora of socio-political and historical justification for it, but the upshot is that one is offensive and one isn't.
That's the whole point of "PC", it is society who dictate what is appropriate or not. There's no cut off or point where you can say "that's when you couldn't say 'gay' or 'coloured' anymore", it just seems to be at some indefined point a generation feel it is no longer appropriate. At that point society has determined what is offensive.
Look at old BBC comedies of the 60s and 70s. Even some of the so-called classics, you look at them now from current, modern sensibilities and can't help but cringe and wonder how we ever laughed at that.
The point of all this though is that it is for society to adjust and decide what is appropriate. You cannot legislate for it in order to speed up the process. And that's the fundamental flaw in some political thought.
And finally, just to mention your point on language. I accept that totally, but this report actually eliminated that because all candidates were Irish citizens with English as their first language, the only difference was name.
None of the reason discussed here (such as communication, length of service/stay in country) stand up to that aspect of the report. It perhaps suggest that people have that prejudice when they see the names and then dismiss the CV purely on the basis of name. If they actually read further they would see the individual is Irish and has English as their first language.
I suppose what i am saying is, is your intention of the insult as important as the use of it or are you racist for even reverting to racist kind of insults.
In (american) journalism terms: that's the nutgraph.
Though I still think it would have been more appropriate to vent your frustration using the term "non-denominational, non-culturally, non-geographically specific, domesticated member of the equidae family who happens to be of the species E. africanus, but that is no way meant to mean that only those of an african origin would have missed that goal scoring opportunity and that it is equally likely that even a european derrived member of the equidae family, given that they are odd-toed ungulates, would have also missed that opportunity."
It's bad enought that a piece of tripe like that took up print space in South Africa (if it actually did?) but quoting it here is pathetic, nothing to do with the original post or the issues to hand.
An article in the Irish Independent here claims that foreign workers are being discriminated against in favour of Irish workers when it comes to applying for jobs via CV.
Opinions ?
gillarosa, in your mind it may have nothing to do with the original post or the issues in hand but, as both articles were discussing RACISM, I thought it relevent. (In SA it was deemed "whites, Indian and Coloureds" who were the instigators). Have a read at the opening paragraph again. And why using a newspaper quote is "pathetic" is beyond me. Perhaps you'ld like to extrapolate for the benefit of people who do see the connection.This appeared in the SA Mercury last month:
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gillarosa, in your mind it may have nothing to do with the original post or the issues in hand but, as both articles were discussing RACISM, I thought it relevent. (In SA it was deemed "whites, Indian and Coloureds" who were the instigators). Have a read at the opening paragraph again. And why using a newspaper quote is "pathetic" is beyond me. Perhaps you'ld like to extrapolate for the benefit of people who do see the connection.
What are you asking for? you obviously know that article did not appear in print in that paper or any other. As far back as November 2008 it was being quoted on the net, it is an e-mail that some little twerp wrote in response to a serious article in that paper and was circulated by his or her fellow travellers and here again you have misrepresented it and posted it to AAM. The term pathetic doesn't actually do justice to your post.
Pique I don't see it as being racism I see it more as looking after our own.
Why the hell shouldn't we?
Wehay, and here's me thinking after the Gay Marriage thread, we'd never agree on anything
Fancy a pint ?
... I don't see it as being racism I see it more as looking after our own...
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