Reply to: Rejected for role on environmental grounds

[jmo21]

and this is yet another reason not to be a permie!

I can just picture the company-wide email that requested vounteers for a cross departmental environmental issue council, all the meeting where they sit round a table and waffle on about what to include in the document they will have prepared in 3 months time.

etc etc...

[Board Game Geek]

Name and shame.

I bet the assorted folks on this board can find enough non-green holes in the company to accuse them of double-standards...

[TykeMerc]

Offer to move to within 49km and ask if they have a suitable reinforced section of their carpark to allow you to do vertical takeoffs and landing in your Harrier. Those babies use quite a lot of water (and metric fvcktons of avgas) in vertical mode, they leave lovely scorch marks too.

I wonder how their environmental policies would cope with the noise too

It's the silliest reason for a rejection that I've ever heard.

[Sockpuppet]

For feck sake.

Do you think they'd be pissed if I gave you a lift there in a lorry?

[mailric]

brilliant

bloody do-gooders. they probably drive to work every day in traffic in a range rover.

[Turion]

I just received a phone call from an agent who says her Client won’t consider me for the role because I 'live too far away and would increase ClientCo’s carbon footprint'.

FFS, use another agent. Submit again with a decent agent (aka: a normal one who knows how to lie). Any agent worth his/her salt would easily bullsh1t over that one and get you a foot in the door.

[BrowneIssue]

The snag is I imagine the only job there is gutting fish

Economy of the Faroe Islands

In 2006 unemployment declined to 3%, one of the lowest rates in Europe. Nevertheless, the almost total dependence on fishing means that the economy remains extremely vulnerable.

The introduction of Burger King in Tórshavn was widely publicized and a sign of the globalization of Faroese culture.

or flipping burgers.


Actually, that was cruel of me. I deleted this text: "Since 2000, new information technology and business projects have been fostered in the Faroe Islands to attract new investment" and "In 2008, the Faroes made a $52 million dollar loan to Iceland, in light of the country's banking woes"

Also "Petroleum found close to the Faroese area gives hope for deposits in the immediate area, which may provide a basis for sustained economic prosperity." This is a worry. If they found oil, that's good. If they have found petroleum, then they are tapping into someone's else pipeline from a refinery. (Feck me, I've found an errorette on Wikipedia!)

[OwlHoot]

If they have a bit more common sense in the Faroe Islands than here I might consider doing that.

The snag is I imagine the only job there is gutting fish

[EternalOptimist]

Who in this country deals in kilometres?

mmmm, thats a clue Holmes.

Yes. this is a two pipe problem Watson.

[OrangeHopper]

Who in this country deals in kilometres?

[Sausage Surprise]

This is the biggest load of arse I've heard of in a long time - on the other hand you could see it as a lucky escape - what kind of a gang of morons are they likely to be to work for if they come up with this twaddle?

Ring the paper though - it'd make a great news story.

Brilliant idea - name and shame the numpties

[pedroPM]

I suspect that that "reason" might be illegal in some shape or form... I'd do what PSB is recommending - call the papers. You'll probably have to have your photo taken looking either dejected or angry.

or just down right bemused!

[Ruprect]

This is the biggest load of arse I've heard of in a long time - on the other hand you could see it as a lucky escape - what kind of a gang of morons are they likely to be to work for if they come up with this twaddle?

Ring the paper though - it'd make a great news story.

I suspect that that "reason" might be illegal in some shape or form... I'd do what PSB is recommending - call the papers. You'll probably have to have your photo taken looking either dejected or angry.

[Zippy]

It's obviously a KPI, and of course KPIs are the be all and end all of large organisations.

LOB = Load of bollox

[d000hg]

Political Correctness Gone Mad <tm>

I think companies can get tax breaks for this kind of thing? Or it can be a big deal to customers if a company is good on this kind of thing.