Sexual orientation on application forms?

KaHn · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:52

Just filling out an application for a large offshore company and I am faced with a question

Sexual Orientation - Bisexual, Hetro,Gay,Lesbian,Transgender , prefer not to answer.

Now I am 100% hetro but my question is, do you think they would be more likely to offer you an interview if you put your preference as something other than straight?

KaHn

platypus · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:54

I thought that it had been made illegal to ask a person their sexuality a while back. :confused:

Andr3w · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:54

Legally they cannot think that way but taking that out of the question, some people may move towards a sexuality they prefer.

Zip · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:56

Maybe they are asking it to see who works close to who. A homo with a hetro to try stop office relationships

KaHn · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:56

Zip said:
Maybe they are asking it to see who works close to who. A homo with a hetro to try stop office relationships

Its offshore work, as in boats.

KaHn

Zip · 15 Jan 2007 at 14:57

KaHn said:
Its offshore work, as in boats.

KaHn

Better ask freefaller then

/Hides from the French sailor :eek:

Andr3w · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:02

Zip said:
Better ask freefaller then

/Hides from the French sailor

AJUK · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:28

Since when has 'transgender' been a sexual orientation? The people that write these forms are trying so hard to be PC that they stumble over themselves revealing that they haven't got a clue.

There should be another option just after 'prefer not to answer'; 'none of your ******* business!'

Chronos-X · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:29

STAB!

Stolly · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:50

SEND EM BACK !!!

Al Vallario · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:58

AJUK said:
Since when has 'transgender' been a sexual orientation?

Well what sexual orientation are you if you're a hermaphrodite or have had a sex change?

benjo plz. · 15 Jan 2007 at 15:59

Al Vallario said:
Well what sexual orientation are you if you're a hermaphrodite?

any?

VeNT · 15 Jan 2007 at 16:01

Al Vallario said:
Well what sexual orientation are you if you're a hermaphrodite or have had a sex change?

well
hermaphrodite would just put down "unlucky"
and sex change would put down whatever they currently are.

AJUK · 15 Jan 2007 at 16:03

Al Vallario said:
Well what sexual orientation are you if you're a hermaphrodite or have had a sex change?

You will be either a man or a woman, depending on your legal position and stage of transformation but that has no bearing whatsoever on what type of person you would prefer to have sex with.

Plunk13 · 15 Jan 2007 at 16:04

Isn't the standard response to this question "HORIZONTAL"?

VeNT · 15 Jan 2007 at 16:06

Plunk13 said:
Isn't the standard response to this question "HORIZONTAL"?

I prefer vertical.

boycee · 15 Jan 2007 at 16:10

KaHn said:
Its offshore work, as in boats.

KaHn

How long are you at sea? Maybe it's a privacy thing, if you're using communal showers etc. That said, you can just lie.

I don't think you are more likly to get a job not being straight, unless of course you're applying for the police

Psyk · 15 Jan 2007 at 17:04

Al Vallario said:
Well what sexual orientation are you if you're a hermaphrodite or have had a sex change?

Presumably in the gender box you would put down whatever sex you are legally, and then your sexuality would be in relation to that. For example if I had a sex change to become a woman I would put my sex down as female and my sexuality as homosexual.

VeNT · 15 Jan 2007 at 17:09

Psyk said:
Presumably in the gender box you would put down whatever sex you are legally, and then your sexuality would be in relation to that. For example if I had a sex change to become a woman I would put my sex down as female and my sexuality as homosexual.

only you would have a sex change just to get it on with lesbians.

benjo plz. · 15 Jan 2007 at 17:11

VeNT said:
only you would have a sex change just to get it on with lesbians.

lol

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