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Previously on "Another reason to hate HR"

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  • original PM
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    Originally posted by doodab View Post
    aha lol see what you did there

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  • NotAllThere
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    So that's why I didn't get that job!
    That and the sharpened teeth.

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  • doodab
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    Originally posted by original PM View Post
    interestingly enough one of the places I was working in the past ( a well know brolly company) one of the HR staff was having a fling with the sales manager - it all ended up out in the open with the usual divorces and recrimations on both sides.

    and yet HR are always the first to 'frown' upon staff liasons

    but then I think we all know that it's one rule for HR and one rule for everyone else...
    You worked here?

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  • original PM
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    interestingly enough one of the places I was working in the past ( a well know brolly company) one of the HR staff was having a fling with the sales manager - it all ended up out in the open with the usual divorces and recrimations on both sides.

    and yet HR are always the first to 'frown' upon staff liasons

    but then I think we all know that it's one rule for HR and one rule for everyone else...

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  • Platypus
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    Originally posted by BobTheCrate View Post
    If ever there were a group of people deserving to be hauled up before the sex discrimination board, it is HR depts and local authority offices.

    In both you are likely to find over 90% of staff are female !
    So I assume such departments are usually staffed with ugly women? Since women will only hire other women less good-looking than themselves, after a period of time, all the women will be ugly !

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  • BobTheCrate
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    Female staff in HR departments ...
    If ever there were a group of people deserving to be hauled up before the sex discrimination board, it is HR depts and local authority offices.

    In both you are likely to find over 90% of staff are female !

    Good looking people invariably don't have too much problem career wise. Like tier-2 visas, very good looks still 'open doors'.

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  • xoggoth
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    In the follow up meeting, the first thing the HR girl said was "He's gorgeous...".

    We turned him down
    So that's why I didn't get that job!

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  • Sysman
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    Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
    Once interviewed a guy who turned the heads of all the girls in the office. After the tech interview, he had an interview with HR.

    In the follow up meeting, the first thing the HR girl said was "He's gorgeous...".

    We turned him down.
    Hehe. I once got an excellent gig from a mainly female agency who took a shine to me.

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  • original PM
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    this sort of thing always makes me laugh

    I was under the impression people were employeed to you know work, do a job, enhance the comppanies profitability and all that

    how wrong was I - it as apparently to get laid and make sure people better looking than you cannot get a job

    one day I will go postal and appear on the news....

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  • NotAllThere
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    Once interviewed a guy who turned the heads of all the girls in the office. After the tech interview, he had an interview with HR.

    In the follow up meeting, the first thing the HR girl said was "He's gorgeous...".

    We turned him down.

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  • aussielong
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    'You're too pretty to work here' - Telegraph



    Good-looking women are twice as likely to be refused a job interview as unattractive ones, a study has found.

    Female staff in HR departments who are jealous of potential rivals could be the reason why, researchers suggested. For men, the reverse is true, they said. An ugly man would have to send twice as many CVs as a handsome peer to secure a response.
    Have you ever got hold of a good looking woman that you work with then? Tell all..

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  • xoggoth
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    Damn it! Now I'm retired I realise what I should have done to get more interviews, attach a photo!

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  • DimPrawn
    started a topic Another reason to hate HR

    Another reason to hate HR

    'You're too pretty to work here' - Telegraph



    Good-looking women are twice as likely to be refused a job interview as unattractive ones, a study has found.

    Female staff in HR departments who are jealous of potential rivals could be the reason why, researchers suggested. For men, the reverse is true, they said. An ugly man would have to send twice as many CVs as a handsome peer to secure a response.

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