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Butchered application
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 10:48 pm
by Gob
A job advert at a London butchers calling for "no drama queens" and "no mummy's boys" attracted applications after previous appeals were met with little response.
William Rose Butchers, in Dulwich, received 18 applications in a day, after the advert was put in the window.
Owner William Rose, 60, said he had been advertising the position for a month with little interest.
The advert also calls for "no emotional wrecks" and "no scruffs".
Mr Rose told BBC Radio London: "We did it as a fun thing first. We had advertised for about a month, and we had two or three scruffy oiks and I thought 'No'."
Defending the "just-for-fun" advert, Mr Rose said he had had people apply who struggle to talk to customers and who have smelt of drink from the night before.
"A butcher's shop is quite hard work. It's an early start. A lot of them don't survive, there doesn't seem to be the work ethic," he explained.
"With drugs now, they have become such a social thing. It's become too acceptable.
"We had one applicant with so many A stars and was going to go on to uni. But the only broom he has ever seen is probably in Harry Potter."
Only one aspect of the advert has been flagged up legally according to Mr Rose: "We had one employment lawyer say, 'You can't put mummy's boys you have to put mummy's persons'."
But the advert did lead to a successful appointment, with Mr Rose saying he has taken on "a very smart young lad with a little family to keep".
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 4:44 am
by Long Run
Gob wrote: no mummy's boys
Legal problems aside, I am afraid to asp what the consequences of such exclusion might include.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 3:39 pm
by rubato
Not even Apple scruffs?
yrs,
rubato
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 3:49 pm
by oldr_n_wsr
scruffy oiks
I'm like that term.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 4:08 pm
by Lord Jim
I'm shocked that this person would so brazenly advertise the fact that he discriminates against the disabled, ("no drunks" "no drug addicts" "no emotional wrecks") and against people based solely on how they look ("no scruffs")
To say nothing of his blatant homophobia...( "no drama queens" no "mummy's boys")
Somebody should sue this hateful bigot...
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 5:05 pm
by Bicycle Bill
oldr_n_wsr wrote: scruffy oiks
I'm like that term.
Is that anything like a randy git?
-"BB"-
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 5:25 pm
by MajGenl.Meade
You could just be right about that, BB,
Randy scouse git:
Scruffy oik:
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:35 pm
by Sue U
Lord Jim wrote:To say nothing of his blatant homophobia...( "no drama queens" no "mummy's boys")
Somebody should sue this hateful bigot...
"Drama queens" and "mummy's boys" come in all genders and sexual orientations, so check your own bigotry,
LJ.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:41 pm
by Big RR
There are female "mummy's boys" ? The name would imply there are not.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:41 pm
by Sue U
Oh, sure there are. You must have met some by now?
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 6:50 pm
by Big RR
Not that I know of. I guess we travel in different circles.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 9:13 pm
by Lord Jim
Sue U wrote:Lord Jim wrote:To say nothing of his blatant homophobia...( "no drama queens" no "mummy's boys")
Somebody should sue this hateful bigot...
"Drama queens" and "mummy's boys" come in all genders and sexual orientations, so check your own bigotry,
LJ.
I tell you what, I'll make you a deal...
I'll check my bigotry, you check your sarcasm detecting meter...
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Mon May 23, 2016 9:59 pm
by Sue U
I guess I needed a smiley thing on my post. I'll have to remember betterer next time.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 12:49 am
by Gob
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 1:14 am
by rubato
Actually some one who would eat bacon for breakfast already had a 0% chance of being an Islamic suicide bomber so eating it again would have zero effect.
But that is the kind of thing you would understand by a process of rational thought, not knee-jerk emotional sloganeering.
Yrs,
Rubato
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 1:18 am
by Joe Guy
Do you often argue with signs? It must be difficult for you to drive.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 1:27 am
by Bicycle Bill
rubato wrote:Actually some one who would eat bacon for breakfast already had a 0% chance of being an Islamic suicide bomber so eating it again would have zero effect.
But that is the kind of thing you would understand by a process of rational thought, not knee-jerk emotional sloganeering.
Yrs,
Rubato
Of being an
ISLAMIC suicide bomber, yes.
But of being a suicide bomber for, let's say, the IRA, no.
-"BB"-
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:06 pm
by Big RR
And of course not every moslem suicide bomber is a moslem that follows all the rules--I recall Atta and his boys partied and drank alcohol before 9/11. I wouldn't be surprised if some ate bacon or other pork products.
Re: Butchered application
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 2:48 pm
by TPFKA@W
Howard and Raj on Big Bang are pretty consistent in breaking religious dietary rules.
Yesterday police stopped a van full of Amish Yoots going 110mph and they were quite drunk. Might as well have been suicide bombers. Rumspringa!
Butchered Application
Posted: Tue May 24, 2016 3:14 pm
by RayThom
TPFKA@W wrote:... Yesterday police stopped a van full of Amish Yoots going 1.10 mph and they were quite drunk... Rumspringa!
After a night of heavy "hoedowning" they hopped into the awaiting van and went out cow-tipping.
