I...Agree with the French

[rvg]

Well that isn't a very realistic course of events now is it, why would one hire a blue sack without eyes when one can hire something that resembles a human being.

Well, an example would be to service other blue sacks in a blue sack neighborhood. In that case it would totally make sense to hire a blue sack for the job.

[miotas]

This is starting to sound kinky.

I would like to think that qualifications and personal qualities would overcome something as petty as a persons appearance.

[Samurai Waki]

...

What a silly thread.

[Andres]

This is starting to sound kinky.

I would like to think that qualifications and personal qualities would overcome something as petty as a persons appearance.

Well, allthough he worded it "Fragonesque", I kinda agree with Fragony.

An employer won't hire you if you constantly want to wear a burqua.

For some jobs, it's probably just not safe, and in other jobs you have dresscodes (banks, law firms, stores, ...).

So, by insisting to constantly be allowed to wear the burqua, you exclude yourself from many job opportunities. Which also addresses HoreTore's point about being able to get an income.

Welcome in the real world

[miotas]

Well, allthough he worded it "Fragonesque", I kinda agree with Fragony.

An employer won't hire you if you constantly want to wear a burqua.

For some jobs, it's probably just not safe, and in other jobs you have dresscodes (banks, law firms, stores, ...).

So, by insisting to constantly be allowed to wear the burqua, you exclude yourself from many job opportunities. Which also addresses HoreTore's point about being able to get an income.

Welcome in the real world

Of course there are jobs where all that loose clothing would make you unemployable if you insisted on wearing it, and I accept that some companies have dress codes, in much the same way that someone with excessive tats or peircings would stop them getting the said job, but it was their choice, and they didn't get the job

[Andres]

Of course there are jobs where all that loose clothing would make you unemployable if you insisted on wearing it, and I accept that some companies have dress codes, in much the same way that someone with excessive tats or peircings would stop them getting the said job, but it was their choice, and they didn't get the job

Well, probably going a bit off topic here, but if your choice makes it practically impossible to get a job, should you be allowed to get unemployment benefits?

We don't feel pity with the lazy guy who doesn't leave his bed to go looking for a job. How about the religious woman who dresses herself as such that it's impossible for her to get a job. Should she get unemployment benefits?

[Tribesman]

Welcome in the real world

Ah the real world .
So say France where this story is from, it has the staggering amount of about 300 people who wear Burquas, which is a hell of a lot from a population of a paltry 65 million .
If I recall correctly from one of the many Netherlandistan topics about the new Fundamentalist Islamist State of Holland they have about 50 people who wear them.

It really is a big issue isn't it

[Andres]

Ah the real world .
So say France where this story is from, it has the staggering amount of about 300 people who wear Burquas, which is a hell of a lot from a population of a paltry 65 million .
If I recall correctly from one of the many Netherlandistan topics about the new Fundamentalist Islamist State of Holland they have about 50 people who wear them.

It really is a big issue isn't it

When you look at it that way: no, it's a non-issue, like most symbolic issues.

The importance lies in the symbolic value

[rvg]

When you look at it that way: no, it's a non-issue, like most symbolic issues.

The importance lies in the symbolic value

Is there any other way of looking at it?

[HoreTore]

An employer won't hire you if you constantly want to wear a burqua.

So, by insisting to constantly be allowed to wear the burqua, you exclude yourself from many job opportunities. Which also addresses HoreTore's point about being able to get an income.

Surprise, surprise:

A lot of employers will hire you, burka or not.

[Fragony]

Well, an example would be to service other blue sacks in a blue sack neighborhood. In that case it would totally make sense to hire a blue sack for the job.

Doing what. Put it at the garbage with the rest of the trash who can see the difference anyway, it's blue, no eyes, a sack, swoosh bye. I can't believe how you guys are trying to wrap a civilized society around this just to make extreme backwardness more pleasing to the eye.

[rvg]

Doing what. Put it at the garbage with the rest of the trash who can see the difference anyway, it's blue, no eyes, a sack, swoosh bye. I can't believe how you guys are trying to wrap a civilized society around this just to make extreme backwardness more pleasing to the eye.

Oh, I'm not making any excuses for wearing a blue sack. From the purely business perspective though, the blue sacks' cash is the same color as yours. Thus, if buying stuff from a store staffed with their fellow blue sacks will cause them to spend more, it only makes sense to staff the store accordingly. *shrug* business is color blind and deity-neutral.

[Fragony]

business is color blind and deity-neutral.

Yeah sure how much use do you have for this,



No place for her chez Fragony's, I don't want a pityfull creature like that around me they aren't human to me. They have done a great job I have zero pity zero compassion for her dead or alive I don't care because it was never alive anyway. But then again could have been Nada, if she is no thanks to you.

[rvg]

Yeah sure how much use do you have for this,



No place for her chez Fragony's, I don't want a pityfull creature like that around me they aren't human to me. They have done a great job I have zero pity zero compassion for her dead or alive I don't care because it was never alive anyway. But then again could have been Nada, if she is no thanks to you.

Look, nobody is obligating you to hire her. That doesn't mean however that there are no job opportunities for people like her. If some gothapotamus with a bunch of nose rings and tattooed from head to toe can find some sort of employment, then the blue sack is not worse off.

[Fragony]

Look, nobody is obligating you to hire her. That doesn't mean however that there are no job opportunities for people like her. If some gothapotamus with a bunch of nose rings and tattooed from head to toe can find some sort of employment, then the blue sack is not worse off.

I don't see a ringlord being dragged into a machine because he has long sleeves. And I can see neither having a job where they have to deal with people.

[rvg]

I don't see a ringlord being dragged into a machine because he has long sleeves. And I can see neither having a job where they have to deal with people.

Call center is a perfect example of a blue sack-friendly employment. Or network administration.

[miotas]

Actually, rings are terribly dangerous around heavy machinery. My uncle lost the end of his finger becuase he forgot to take off his wedding ring, he's lucky that's all he lost.

[Tribesman]

Look, nobody is obligating you to hire her.

Wouldn't it be funny if that French woman in the article sent a job application to Frag, she would obviously make it past the first hurdle as he only throws job applications straight in the bin if he thinks the name sounds arab .
Poor old Frag might get his legal comeuppance when he actually met her and coundn't keep his bigotry under control.

[Furunculus]

*shrug* business is color blind and deity-neutral.

rubbish, business is whoring yourself out in the most attractive way possible, turning up to a sales meeting looking like an outcast from scooby-doo will win you no orders unless you have something pretty damned special.

hard to build a personal relationship from behind a barrier.