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PC over a cup of tea
We try to be an inclusive column, but our diversity policy has come unstuck. We refer, of course, to the scandalous use of the phrase ‘tea ladies’.
‘A few years ago, the tea lady at the small company I was working for retired. I was told by the managing director to get on the phone to the local jobcentre and place an ad for her replacement,’ says David Tomlinson, at Data Encryption Systems. ‘The person from the Poole jobcentre told me I could not advertise for a tea lady, as it was sexual discrimination.’ He was allowed to advertise for a teaperson by the people David calls ‘the thought police’. He had one application for the job – from a man.
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