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To think employers wanting us to bring our whole selves to work is actually a very sinister idea?

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ScreamingBeans · 26/07/2023 17:21

No. I don't want to bring my whole self to work and I don't want my colleagues to either.

The man who worked at the NSPCC who brought his whole self to work by wearing his leather fetish gear and masturbating in the toilet and then uploading it to a website, should have left that part of himself at home. I hope that any colleagues of mine who share his habits will not accept my employer's invitation to bring their whole selves to work, I want them to leave that bit of themselves firmly behind their own front doors.

The sinister bit is that if you want people to bring their whole selves to work, then that means you need to employ people who think and act in a way that you as an employer find conducive. So you won't employ anyone who disagrees with you politically, religiously or philosophically, because their opinions won't align with your values. And you will then be justified in doing something which trade unionists fought tooth and nail to make illegal - blacklist workers who don't share your politics and viewpoint.

I don't care what people do or believe outside work as long as they do the bloody job competently and professionally in work and keep their unacceptable beliefs or behaviour to themselves. I don't want interviews and other employment processes to start becoming tools to weed out people with the wrong political views - now called "values" - instead of the tools to find the best person for the job regardless of their sex, race, religion, disability status, political beliefs etc.

Employers are beginning to take back the rights they used to have, to blacklist workers with unacceptable political or ideological views and it's being done under the guise of employing the sort of people who have "our values" IE the same opinions as the employer.

Shouldn't trades unionists be alarmed about this?

OP posts:
widowtwankywashroom · 30/07/2023 17:49

Here's a novel idea,
Why don't people come to work to do the job they're paid to do.

SerendipityJane · 30/07/2023 17:57

widowtwankywashroom · 30/07/2023 17:49

Here's a novel idea,
Why don't people come to work to do the job they're paid to do.

Given my exposure to various organisations, that would mean they'd have to lose 50% who can't do the job they are paid for.

Nonsense like this is a great way to bamboozle the slower thinkers.

"Your firm is crap !"
"We can't be, we have a golden rainbow, top 5 "best employer with a vowel in their name" and tufty badge"

People of a certain hairstyle will recognise:

"This is a cheese shop, isn't it ?"
"Yes sir. Best in the district".
"How come, pray tell ?"
"Very clean, sir"
"Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by any cheese ..."

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