www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-62807683
Why?
Why not just give the job to - oh I don't know - a woman???
Why scrap it totally?
If a man can't have the job no one can?
Ffs.
AIBU?
Male period dignity officer sacked so whole idea scrapped...
Chevyimpala67 · 06/09/2022 14:16
nutellachurro · 06/09/2022 14:25
Why should it have gone to a woman?
Can only women read the new law and enforce said law in schools and other public buildings?
Topseyt123 · 06/09/2022 14:24
If the role is needed at all then the job should have gone to a woman. I highly doubt that there were no suitable women as candidates.
Nobody should be actually abused in their place of work. I don't think we know much detail there.
poshme · 06/09/2022 15:10
Wow. There are people here who think that working regularly with young people doesn't require enhanced background checks.
And no @nutellachurro enhanced DBS checks are not just for regulated activities.
poshme · 06/09/2022 15:10
Wow. There are people here who think that working regularly with young people doesn't require enhanced background checks.
And no @nutellachurro enhanced DBS checks are not just for regulated activities.
Chevyimpala67 · 06/09/2022 15:14
Indeed not.
I have one for example and my activities are not unregulated
poshme · 06/09/2022 15:10
Wow. There are people here who think that working regularly with young people doesn't require enhanced background checks.
And no @nutellachurro enhanced DBS checks are not just for regulated activities.
Florenz · 06/09/2022 15:09
£35,000 is more than most of the private sector workers in Tayside earn, you know the people that actually pay for the local council.
Sorry but I think local government in this country is an absolute fucking joke, on every conceivable level. It's basically legalised robbery of council tax payers, if it was run properly 99% of the people working there would no longer be working - and most of them would not last 5 minutes in the private sector where you actually have to be good at what you do.
NightmareSlashDelightful · 06/09/2022 14:55
DBS doesn't apply here — it's not a thing in Scotland.
nutellachurro · 06/09/2022 15:16
@TooBigForMyBoots
And why do you think people will be talking to this person about their periods?
The job is to raise awareness of the period product act and the activities and initiatives being done to ensure this law is being followed
Unless you're one of those who have read the title and thinks he will be sitting in a circle of teenage girls having chats about cramps?
Mummyoflittledragon · 06/09/2022 15:14
Really? How are adults vetted and children safeguarded?
NightmareSlashDelightful · 06/09/2022 14:55
DBS doesn't apply here — it's not a thing in Scotland.
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nutellachurro · 06/09/2022 15:19
@TheDailyCarbunkle
Can you highlight where in the JD it states you'll be talking to women and girls about their periods?
I'll wait
nutellachurro · 06/09/2022 15:16
@TooBigForMyBoots
And why do you think people will be talking to this person about their periods?
The job is to raise awareness of the period product act and the activities and initiatives being done to ensure this law is being followed
Unless you're one of those who have read the title and thinks he will be sitting in a circle of teenage girls having chats about cramps?
SheeWeee · 06/09/2022 15:06
It really doesn't mean that. They train for years to be qualified, this dude is a personal fuckign trainer who knows about as much about the menopause as Dave down the pub.
Not even slightly the same thing
IrisAtwood · 06/09/2022 15:03
Sorry but the logic of only giving this role to a woman means that men would not be suitable gynaecologists or midwives. AFAIK men carry out both of these roles without any problems 🤷♀️
I don’t know why he lost the role or why it has been defunded, but not sure that it is because he is a man.
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nutellachurro · 06/09/2022 14:24
Oh god
Another post where the ignorant will bleat on about incorrect assumptions as to the remit of this role.
YABU op
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