Contractor loses out on his 'dream' £1,000-a-week IT role

[CoolCat]

I don't think he's a twat at all, it sounds like Reed have blown this out of all proportion. Is this really a remark that any reasonable person would consider racist or designed to offend?

Lets say he'd got the job and the recruiter had come over to buy him breakfast, what would have happened if he'd asked for a Bacon sandwich then? On the spot dismissal?

If anything this is Reed discriminating against people who eat bacon. I hope they get sued until they squeal like little piggies. It also sounds like the so called senior manager is a knob head.

Agreed

[norrahe]

Well need to look up an article I read the other day where here in Germany they're going the other way, encouraging English to be spoken amongst business groups.

Lets hope they still are when I decide to move country in a few years.

[TheFaQQer]

Well if you were phoned by a supposedly senior manager after an apparently successful interview, accused of racism and repeatedly told to admit you were a very naughty man wouldn't you be a little annoyed?

I'd like to hear the recording of the call.

If I was told repeatedly that I'd been offensive to someone (and I hadn't meant it), then I would apologise that they were offended and explain that I hadn't meant to be offensive. I might then have moaned about it somewhere else.

I wouldn't have sworn at the manager down the phone and then gone crying to the Daily Mail that I'd been robbed of a job by Muslims.

[KaiserWilly]

Really says a lot about the state of the UK when a breakfast of English origin is now racist. How about we go the whole hog and make possession and distribution of bacon a criminal offence? Or perhaps the very mention of bacon should be seen as aggravated assault.

Fecking Marxists.

[TheFaQQer]

Really says a lot about the state of the UK when a breakfast of English origin is now racist.

It's not. Reed didn't mention anything about racism, they said that some of his comments caused offence. He then swore at them, and they said that perhaps he wasn't the professional that they wanted to represent.

If you want to be treated like a professional, then act like one.

[KaiserWilly]

It's not. Reed didn't mention anything about racism, they said that some of his comments caused offence.

Since when offering to buy a bacon sandwich is "offensive"?

BTW, offence is a two way street. I am offended daily by Marxists, Muslims, Communists, Homosexualists, Feminists, etc., and I take it.

He then swore at them, and they said that perhaps he wasn't the professional that they wanted to represent.

Very well so. Reed is in my black list from now on. Feck them.

[Spacecadet]

Very well so. Reed is in my black list from now on. Feck them.

Since when did Reed offer anything but the crappiest of contracts anyway?

[OwlHoot]

Really says a lot about the state of the UK when a breakfast of English origin is now racist. How about we go the whole hog and make possession and distribution of bacon a criminal offence? Or perhaps the very mention of bacon should be seen as aggravated assault.

Fecking Marxists.

At clientco, bacon and/or pork sausage is the _only_ filling available in breakfast rolls and sandwiches.

In my innocence asked for a tuna mayo roll, which seemed the healthier option and hardly exotic. but the dopey serving lady gawped at me as if I'd asked for mammoth burger.

[TheFaQQer]

Since when offering to buy a bacon sandwich is "offensive"?

As soon as someone takes offence. Once someone takes offence, then it is offensive.

And I'd suggest that there may have been more than one comment, but the Daily Mail simply didn't have time or space to gather the complete facts of the story and report them.

BTW, offence is a two way street. I am offended daily by Marxists, Muslims, Communists, Homosexualists, Feminists, etc., and I take it.

Good for you. If you are offended then you have two choices - you ignore it, or you do something about it.

If you offend someone, then the correct course of action (particularly if they are in a position to offer you work that you want / need) is to apologise for inadvertently causing offence. You didn't mean it, but if you did offend them, then apologise and move on. The correct course of action is not to swear at the manager and hang up, then bleat that they didn't want to represent you any more.

[mudskipper]

As soon as someone takes offence. Once someone takes offence, then it is offensive.

And I'd suggest that there may have been more than one comment, but the Daily Mail simply didn't have time or space to gather the complete facts of the story and report them.


Good for you. If you are offended then you have two choices - you ignore it, or you do something about it.

If you offend someone, then the correct course of action (particularly if they are in a position to offer you work that you want / need) is to apologise for inadvertently causing offence. You didn't mean it, but if you did offend them, then apologise and move on. The correct course of action is not to swear at the manager and hang up, then bleat that they didn't want to represent you any more.

Should Muslims, homosexuals and feminists apologise for offending KW then?