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Spar IFSC: Female Sandwich Makers Needed. Sausages need not apply.

  • 06-03-2014 1:36pm
    #1
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭


    Lovely bit of sexism from the SPAR branch in the IFSC.

    It's grand though, its against men.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 26,052 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Surely it's against equality legislation to specify gender (except in some very limited cases, I think)?

    And of course it's not ok when it's against men.


  • #3
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    That's illegal isn't it?

    You can discriminate all you want in private but don't put it on the feckin sign!


  • #4
    Riskymove
    Registered Users Posts: 10,885 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    Cannot be real....if it is...it's illegal and the sign will be down soon enough


  • #5
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    Riskymove wrote: »
    Cannot be real....if it is...it's illegal and the sign will be down soon enough

    Anyone walking by the Spar IFSC branch can take a look. Just took the pic not five minutes ago.


  • #6
    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Lets start a Facebook campaign and fill it up with "boycotting Spar" and death threats!! :D


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  • #7
    Riskymove
    Registered Users Posts: 10,885 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    phasers wrote: »
    You can discriminate all you want in private but don't put it on the feckin sign!

    You're a HR Manager, right?


  • #8
    Gavin "shels"
    Registered Users Posts: 17,962 ✭✭✭✭Gavin "shels"


    Duggy747 wrote: »
    Lets start a Facebook campaign and fill it up with "boycotting Spar" and death threats!! :D

    Nah, the lefties would only be doing that if it said "Men only".


  • #9
    bumper234
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,250 ✭✭✭✭bumper234


    wazky wrote: »
    The position is more suited to a female though.

    Why?
    :confused:


  • #10
    phasers
    Registered Users Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Riskymove wrote: »
    You're a HR Manager, right?
    Legally you can't ask me that because you might discriminate against me.


    So yes.


  • #11
    Balmed Out
    Registered Users Posts: 4,713 ✭✭✭Balmed Out


    Ching ching im getting on to my solicitor


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  • #12
    The Diabolical Monocle
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,618 ✭✭✭The Diabolical Monocle


    Doing a mick O'leary maybe.


  • #13
    wilser
    Registered Users Posts: 1,104 ✭✭✭wilser


    Well the last place I worked had to sack the deli lad cos he was putting his Mickey into the meat slicer.
    but tbf they sacked her as well....

    BOOM!!!!


  • #14
    Crann na Beatha
    Registered Users Posts: 11,763 ✭✭✭✭Crann na Beatha


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  • #15
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,407 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    The proprietor.


  • #16
    omahaid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,497 ✭✭✭omahaid


    But discrimination against men is legal afaik.


  • #17
    notnumber
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,564 ✭✭✭notnumber


    jescart wrote: »
    Biologically their smaller brains are more adapted for simple, repetitive tasks like working at a deli.

    Cue the Harry Enfield video..women know your limits!!


  • #18
    elfy4eva
    Registered Users Posts: 1,204 ✭✭✭elfy4eva


    wazky wrote: »
    The position is more suited to a female though.

    Men make much better sambos, less skabby on the filling. ;)


  • #19
    kfallon
    Registered Users Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Looks like my local Spar in IFSC!


  • #20
    EyeSight
    Registered Users Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭EyeSight


    this does not surprise me. I once went for a job interview in a Hallmark store and towards the end of the interview she said "well we have a policy to only hire women here so i don't know how you would fit. hmmm. I'll call you"


  • #21
    eviltwin
    Registered Users Posts: 17,495 ✭✭✭✭eviltwin


    It's illegal to advertise jobs in that way. I'm surprised Spar would make such an error.


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  • #22
    kneemos
    Registered Users Posts: 20,407 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    kfallon wrote: »
    Looks like my local Spar in IFSC!

    That's where it is so chances are good.


  • #23
    Fukuyama
    Registered Users Posts: 3,023 ✭✭✭Fukuyama


    eviltwin wrote: »
    It's illegal to advertise jobs in that way. I'm surprised Spar would make such an error.

    @SparIreland just tweeted back to me when I sent them the pic. They said they'll get onto the store. So chances are the sign will come down sharpish - but there's very obviously a sexist manager working there so you have to ask whether the hiring process will change behind the scenes.


  • #24
    Holsten
    Registered Users Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    They will just remove the sign and discriminate anyway.

    Messed up situation.


  • #25
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Maybe the position is for a tampon bin emptier.


  • #26
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I know a farmer that put an ad in the local buy and sell
    WANTED

    MAN TO HELP WITH LAMBING


    Handy woman considered


  • #27
    Specialun
    Registered Users Posts: 3,068 ✭✭✭Specialun


    Dean0088 wrote: »
    @SparIreland just tweeted back to me when I sent them the pic. They said they'll get onto the store. So chances are the sign will come down sharpish - but there's very obviously a sexist manager working there so you have to ask whether the hiring process will change behind the scenes.


    hello snip

    lets not bring real names in here thanks


  • #28
    Knex*
    Registered Users Posts: 22,477 ✭✭✭✭Knex*


    The current bunch in there are hopeless anyway. Pretty much refuse to put the fillings in before the chicken, or whatever. Quite simply, its madness, Ted.


  • #29
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Dean0088 wrote: »
    @SparIreland just tweeted back to me when I sent them the pic. They said they'll get onto the store. So chances are the sign will come down sharpish - but there's very obviously a sexist manager working there so you have to ask whether the hiring process will change behind the scenes.

    On behalf of all beleaguered internet males chafing under the yoke of feminist oppression, I'd like to thank you for your diligence in this regard,.


  • #30
    The_Kew_Tour
    Registered Users Posts: 34,044 ✭✭✭✭The_Kew_Tour


    Used to work near it and the staff there were poor enough.

    Male or Female


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  • #31
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    I wonder with it saying "females only" is the person in charge of hiring not a fluent English speaker?

    A fluent English speaker would know that the correct word in this situation is "women", but it would also explain perhaps why the person doesn't understand how big a deal it is to discriminate in this way if they were raised outside of the EU.


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