Past employment as Contract or permanent

[acontractor]

I would expect people are far to scared of being caught out by the race card. You can't even say no to someone with a barely understandable accent on a call desk nowadays. It does get my goat that what goes around doesn't come around for a lot of people but you can't go ahead and do stuff just because someone else got away with it.

We have had posters on here who (rather stupidly) asked for advice about what to do after getting walked for lying on a Security Check and about their financial situation so it does happen.

I agree with this. But I am not a dishonest person and will not lie about things on cv. It was just a thought and I got it wrong.
I am one of those who believes that this country is the most tolerate of other races from other leading western economies. In today's day-n-age an agent cant afford to stop someone if he/she has reasonable level of communication skills regardless of their accent.

[northernladuk]

I agree with this. But I am not a dishonest person and will not lie about things on cv. It was just a thought and I got it wrong. I am one of those who believes that this country is the most tolerate of other races from other leading western economies. In today's day-n-age an agent cant afford to stop someone if he/she has reasonable level of communication skills regardless of their accent.

But you asked a question about whether to lie on a CV. If you didn't want to lie you would have known this was wrong.

It just depends on what reasonable is. I for one am pretty pissed of with calling helpdesks and not being able to understand a word the other person is saying on the other end (and vice versa of course). If someone can speak clearly and articulately and be understood by the customer I personally that should be a consideration over someone that is difficult to understand. The primary purpose of the job is communication so if you can't do that well you are not the person for the job in my book. If I have to repeat the spelling on my name 3 times then sorry, that person is not fit for purpose. I am talking extreme cases here but I seem to come across them alot.........But that is an argument for another time and not one for this thread. I shouldn't have started down this avenue so lets not go off topic here.

[acontractor]

oh dear ... take it easy Simon Cowell...

[northernladuk]

oh dear ... take it easy Simon Cowell...

I am not very good with clever insults F off tosser or something I can deal with, that one is just to subtle for me I am afraid.