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clivex

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this was a genuinely serious comment in a conversation today with a so called financial director

- when i interview someone which school they went to is the most important factor

- i admire someone who has worked their way through the public system than the comprehensive system, because they hsave to take entrance exams

Comments please :rant:
 
Originally posted by clivex@Dec 19 2007, 12:31 PM
- when i interview someone which school they went to is the most important factor
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That was way it were in Glasgow when I were lad. As soon as you said the word "Saint" you had failed the interview. I used to wear a Celtic scarf just to make sure I didn't get the job.
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Stupid.

Saying that I had to take an entrance exam to attend the high school I went to, didn't make it any better or worse than any other schools in the area nor did it stop its status changing and becoming more mainstream a term later.
 
So someone could have taken an entrance exam and then failed miserably in their "real" exams and they would be given preference over someone who has just failed their "real" exams? :D

One could take a perverse view and suggest, as is implied, that because a public school is a better school, that those who have come through the trials and tribulations of the comprehensive system with equally high grades deserve greater credit due to the adverse circumstances in which their grades were achieved.
 
Something like that Simmo

He said the school was "the most important" thing

Hes an accountant who once rummaged through his desk to find a calculator to subtract 6.3 from 9. This is the truth....

I wouldnt like to suggest that somehow he had benefited from a education that has exploited his limited abilities to the full.....
 
Nice to see prejudice is still alive and kicking... the less 'privileged' in the teeth.

Religious bigotry still exists in Glasgow. My niece, a top Law graduate, was told not to expect to get a job in a major Law firm on account of being a Catholic. This was only two years ago. She did get a job, eventually, in the Scottish Office.
 
The bloke sounds like a complete plonker and should be treated with contempt. Having said that, as an employer while I wouldn't hire anyone on the basis of what school they went to, I've employed a few ex Wellington School (Somerset not College) pupils and they have all been sensible people with a lot of common sense. Whether it's a coincidence or not, I've no idea.
 
The Wellington College lot tend to go into a military background, many go straight on to Sandhurst from there.

I used to swim at Wellington College as a very small child - there was no heating in their pool, it was freezing!
 
Originally posted by uncle goober@Dec 19 2007, 03:11 PM
But :laughing: would they want to work for YOU again ?!!
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Well, we've 8 employees out of our 16 who've been with us over 5 years, 6 of the others have been with us more than three years, so I don't reckon we've got it too wrong.... :P
 
The accountant's approach comes as no surprise.

The Apprentice series showed that even the likes of Alan Sugar, London ex-barrow boy or whatever, is seduced by the tones of a public school accent.

If you don't believe me, just recall how much he agonised before dropping the arrogant ex-Sandhurst idiot trying to fry his sausages on a candle, and how that Irish woman lost out in the final.
 
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