mate lied on an application form, what do you think?

I thought those sort of forms where you mark your religion/sexuality etc don't get seen by the person doing the selection and are only used for monitoring purposes? In that case he got the job on his application and not the HR form?
 
He's actually pretty safe - the press would be in uproar if they got hold of a man who got hired by police as a gay policeman then being sacked. Can see the mail already putting it against a backdrop of massive police shortfalls etc :)
 
Nix said:
I heard that the waiting list for a white, hetrosexual male is up to 3 years for the police whereas an ethnic, homosexual woman for example would be snapped up faster than you could blink.

He's played a shoddy system. Well done.
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I can imagine ethnic quotas, but they have quotas for homosexual women?
Seriously?
Wow, that country has gone off the rails.
 
crystaline said:
I can imagine ethnic quotas, but they have quotas for homosexual women?
Seriously?
Wow, that country has gone off the rails.
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It's probably apt for me to remind you that it is still hearsay. I don't know how much validity it holds but I think it's just an exaggeration of a poorly run system.
 
Mercutio said:
He's actually pretty safe - the press would be in uproar if they got hold of a man who got hired by police as a gay policeman then being sacked. Can see the mail already putting it against a backdrop of massive police shortfalls etc :)
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First of all, even the Daily Mail might be reluctant to champion a person who was sacked for lying in their application form - no matter what they lied about. And saying "whoops - honest mistake" isn't going to help him.

Second, as stated above, these are plastic police we are talking here, not the real thing, and as said, they will take just about anyone so I would imagine that this choice made no difference.


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Vix said:
I thought those sort of forms where you mark your religion/sexuality etc don't get seen by the person doing the selection and are only used for monitoring purposes? In that case he got the job on his application and not the HR form?
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Yep, that's what I was thinking. It's like that where I work (major financial org).
 
His sexuality should be irrelevant.

Monitoring it is just PC gone mad.

Therefore it doesn't matter what he puts.
 
tbh I think it's quite clever of him. If they ever ask him about it in the future, he can just say he met the perfect woman to turn him :p
 
Maybe it's the fact that as part of the job, there can be times where you have to deal with gay relations or gay-related incidents, where a person 'familair' with the field would be better placed than a person who is straight. Ever think about that?
 
KNiVES said:
Maybe it's the fact that as part of the job, there can be times where you have to deal with gay relations or gay-related incidents, where a person 'familair' with the field would be better placed than a person who is straight. Ever think about that?
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I can relate to jumping off a cliff but I've never done it, tbh.
 
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