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Top London employers discriminate agains't working class people

steddyeddy · 2015-06-15 15:52:47

Studies done by the social mobility and child poverty commission found that top legal, finance and accounting firms discriminate against people from working class backgrounds. Working class people have got to the highest rungs of biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in my experience so I don't think it's a case that…

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#242 17-06-2015 03:59PM

FrStone

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osarusan wrote: »

I'm surprised you ever got the great job in a legal firm with your history as a delivery driver!
Surely they'd have discarded your CV straight away, and, what's more, you'd have approved of that :pac:

It may be news to you but you don't have to be working class to have a part time job in college.

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#243 17-06-2015 04:14PM

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Thank you so much guys I think I'm going to burst laughing.

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#244 17-06-2015 04:28PM

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I can imagine it now. Going from the delivery driver "story bud" to the "my daddy says if they gave up heroin they could afford that second home in Barcelona" twang in law classes in night school.

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#245 17-06-2015 04:54PM

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