When is it acceptable/unacceptable to hire a woman/man for their looks?

jester77

watna wrote: »

I got called for an interview for a job as a stripper once. I applied for a job as a PA to the chief executive of a company and got called for an interview. It turned out it was a company that owned brothels and strip clubs so I rang them back and said I was no longer available for work.

The next day I got a call from a woman saying she had my CV and would I come in for an interview, when I asked again where she was calling from it turns out it was a strip club where the women dressed as mermaids and swim around in tanks. They obviously just passed any female CVs from the parent copmany on to them. I was just really surprised that people put CVs in for a job as a stripper and I was getting a call for an interview with no idea what I looked like! I would have thought that was one job where it really does matter what people look like. I guess they wanted to know my qualifications first :pac:

Mermaids ... hmmm, where was this club?!

watna

jester77 wrote: »

Mermaids ... hmmm, where was this club?!

It's in Wellington. Funnily enough it's called Mermaids.:D I've never been in but it smells like chlorine when you walk past and there's always a van from a pool cleaning company outside so it looks like a good time is had by all!

Biggins

AskMyChocolate wrote: »

...when is it acceptable to hire someone for their looks/youth?

Choco

When your hiring them for model fashion shoots and other related areas?

the groutch

it's not what you know, it's who you blow

Duggy747

I applied to a very basic IT job years and years ago and didn't get it, despite thinking I had the experience and whatnot at the time.

Got with a girl about a week later who ended up getting the job despite her saying she had no idea how she got it and had no experience.

She was fired 2 weeks later. :pac:

Katgurl

Acceptable IMO - Model, stripper, promo staff, receptionist, bar staff, clothes shop, wait staff.

The above apply to male and female and much more so in very trendy / upmarket establishments.

Not acceptable (but is still rampant) - any profession requiring qualifications and specialist skills.

af_thefragile

I have noticed the pretty girls seem to have it a bit easier. Especially when u have to speak to people like take an interview or such. The people are much more likely to give a proper interview to a pretty girl than to an ugly bloke...

Also pretty girls tend to get better references too...

blatantrereg

af_thefragile wrote: »

I have noticed the pretty girls seem to have it a bit easier. Especially when u have to speak to people like take an interview or such. The people are much more likely to give a proper interview to a pretty girl than to an ugly bloke...

Also pretty girls tend to get better references too...

It depends on the field a bit too - and on the level. High level technical position has a gorgeous woman and an awkward oddball of a man - who do you think has the better impression right off?

I think women who dont go in for this sort of crap probably suffer the most overall. It might explain the glass ceiling really. The women with the ability to go furthest get passed over early on for twats with limited ability who will stroke a manager's

ego

AskMyChocolate

watna wrote: »

I got called for an interview for a job as a stripper once. I applied for a job as a PA to the chief executive of a company and got called for an interview. It turned out it was a company that owned brothels and strip clubs so I rang them back and said I was no longer available for work.

The next day I got a call from a woman saying she had my CV and would I come in for an interview, when I asked again where she was calling from it turns out it was a strip club where the women dressed as mermaids and swim around in tanks. They obviously just passed any female CVs from the parent copmany on to them. I was just really surprised that people put CVs in for a job as a stripper and I was getting a call for an interview with no idea what I looked like! I would have thought that was one job where it really does matter what people look like. I guess they wanted to know my qualifications first :pac:

Aaw that would be so cool. Did you snaggle the job? Or was your underwater shorthand not up to scratch? Bummer!

efb

Air Stewards. There was a complete roide on my last flight home, cut jaw great shoulders, I was hoping he was a trainee pilot- (I'm v shallow) I was looking at the twink mincing beside him thinking I bet he's rode him 6 ways from Sunday...

bicardi19

While Human Resources are doing interviews they have a sheet in front of them that they ask questions off.

So each question they ask they score out of 10 depending on the answer you give.

But the first section comes under appearance and you get scored out of 10 on that as well.

Now I realise this probably just means clean, neat etc but someone with good looks would score higher than someone less unfortunate in the looks department.

So a good looking person will have a higher chance of scoring higher in the interview when its all averaged out.

syklops

44leto wrote: »

I think it is never acceptable, but I know it goes on.

I was buying a car in the last month and one observation I made, in all the show rooms the receptionists seem to be very attractive women.

And then you went and bought the car with the scratched bonnet, because its not the looks but whats on the inside that counts.

Katgurl

bicardi19 wrote: »

While Human Resources are doing interviews they have a sheet in front of them that they ask questions off.

So each question they ask they score out of 10 depending on the answer you give.

But the first section comes under appearance and you get scored out of 10 on that as well.

Now I realise this probably just means clean, neat etc but someone with good looks would score higher than someone less unfortunate in the looks department.

So a good looking person will have a higher chance of scoring higher in the interview when its all averaged out.

Dear god, that is not true, what company does this? Any notes on appearance in
an interview are based on the persons attire and level of grooming not whether he/she is hot or not.

Otherwise it's a claim waiting to happen.

Sky King

A girl I know regularly gets offered jobs when she goes into a bar for a drink, or a hotel, or whatever. She thinks it's normal and it happens to everyone, and refuses to believe it's because she is savage looking.

I advised her that if she was a hideous mutant bridge-dwelling troll with a bog walrus physique and a face like a well-slapped arse she would barely be allowed into the place, let alone be offered gainful employment there.

She doesn;t believe it though

Jesus Wept

wtf is a peeler.

Sky King

The-Rigger wrote: »

wtf is a peeler.

I think it's a 'burd'.

I know, I never heard of it either. Conjures up imagery of bad sunburn tbh.

Biggins

The-Rigger wrote: »

wtf is a peeler.

It was a slang name for the original English policeman (Named after Robert Peel who just about created the British police force).
"Here comes the Peelers"
Don't know if it means anything else now - except besides maybe someone scraping the skins off a lot of stuff!

syklops

Biggins wrote: »

It was a slang name for the original English policeman (Named after Robert Peel who just about created the British police force).
"Here comes the Peelers"
Don't know if it means anything else now - except besides maybe someone scraping the skins off a lot of stuff!

When a man has an erection his foreskin peels back. A 'peeler' is an individual who creates that situation to occur, e.g. hot to the extreme.

Brain Stroking

efb wrote: »

Air Stewards. There was a complete roide on my last flight home, cut jaw great shoulders, I was hoping he was a trainee pilot- (I'm v shallow) I was looking at the twink mincing beside him thinking I bet he's rode him 6 ways from Sunday...

That was me and my gay cousin. Were you the drooler 3 rows back?