descrimination?

aarymark

I buy my local paper every week to check local sport, jobs,ect.anyway one ad kept catching my eye its for polish painters, goes along the lines of get your house polished which seems harmless enought. my point being could an irish person advertise such a service any service as exclusively irish without ending up in court

mikemac

Hey, some products are "guranteed Irish", you've seen the symbol and the Irish government started that back in the 1980's before the EU took a dim view of it. So sure, it's cool to advertise yourself as Irish

Edit: sure this is legal
http://www.guaranteedirish.ie/

The Guaranteed Irish symbol makes shopping for Irish products and services a lot easier. Shoppers know that when they buy a product or service featuring the guaranteed Irish logo they are supporting Irish companies and safeguarding Irish jobs. That makes it an important, powerful, device.

I've seen people advertise themselves as an Irish trade person.
I don't want to live in a society that treats a pedantic issue like that as discrimination.
It belittles all parties.

Orange69

The delusional do-godders and the PC brigade would burst a gut screaming racism if you did that...

aarymark

Moonbaby wrote: »

I've seen people advertise themselves as an Irish trade person.
I don't want to live in a society that treats a pedantic issue like that as discrimination.
It belittles all parties.

i agree with your point but the follow on from the add is they only imply polish people and make no secret of it

dsmythy

Let me get this striaght. The ad is a company which hires only Polish painters or tradesmen or whatever and then markets itself as such?

Wertz

aarymark wrote: »

i agree with your point but the follow on from the add is they only imply polish people and make no secret of it

So what if they only employ polish people?

Speaking as a decorator myself, I've worked for firms that had no truck with employing poles (or other NINs) for varying reasons...like it or not, some people don't want foreign lads working in their house, like it or not some of these guys have little or no english and that can lead to problems with work being done wrong etc.

When I worked in the States the Irish guy I worked for/with made a point of trying to help out fellow Irish...that's how it's done, sticking together in another country, that's not to say that he wouldn't employ anyone else, but he'd favour his own countrymen...I wouldn't expect any less of the polskis, nor would I criticse them for it, even if they are underpricing most Irish guys, including me...

orestes

Anti-Polish thread in After Hours?

Is it that time of the week already? Man, time really does fly in the run up to christmas doesn't it

Orange69

orestes wrote: »

Anti-Polish thread in After Hours?

Is it that time of the week already? Man, time really does fly in the run up to christmas doesn't it

I wonder if people like this see the irony, if this thread was about an Irish company who only employed Irish this guy would be jumping up and down about it shouting racism.. But if its a company who will only employ polish people any criticism is labeled "Anti polish".. Make up your mind!

Nichololas

Er, from what you've written it sounds like the ad is advertising painters who are Polish and making a pun on the words Polish and polish..

Shelflife

Why would they want painters to polish a house???

dr.bollocko

Descrimination: (Noun) unfair treatment of a cork person or group of cork people because they are from Cork.

Discrimination: (Noun) unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice.

A subtle but important difference.

davyjose

I once knew a Des Crimination. Discrimination on the other hand .... terrible, terrible thing!

Nichololas

Shelflife wrote: »

Why would they want painters to polish a house???

Maybe they meant polish as in "put the finishing touches to". I don't know. I'd go ask them but I don't speak Polish.

TPD

aarymark wrote: »

get your house polished

Are you sure they werent offering to polish the house? Doors and silverware etc.

Nichololas

TPD wrote: »

Are you sure they werent offering to polish the house? Doors and silverware etc.

+1

They could have been Polish polishers.

aarymark

no they are painters the ads on the front page of the leinster leader.my feeling is if an irish firm advertised like this the pc brigade would go ballistic

Wertz

Enlil_Nick wrote: »

+1

They could have been Polish polishers.

Maybe they were French Polishers with an identity crisis...

dsmythy

By the sounds of it they were doing a play on words. The Polish painters will "Polish" your house, presumably meaning they will do a good job because of their Polishness somehow. I dunno, someone whip out a Leinster Leader newpaper and sort out the mystery of the polishing polish painters.