Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff - Guardian

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Bosses can reject applicants who support rival football team to existing staff, judge says — The Guardian

Maintaining ‘office harmony’ a valid factor in recruitment decisions, employment tribunal in London rules
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Seems a bit OTT to me - we have a mixture of City, United and other fans at work but other than a bit of banter it’s fine. What are others’ experiences?
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Let us not be judged by the colour of our shirts but the content of our character.
 
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What if it's a glory hunter.
African lad at ours came as a Chelsea fan,now is a city fan.
 
I have worked under two bosses who seemed to think they were A.Ferguson, quoting from his autobiographies and such like. Neither were from anywhere near Manchester, of course.
One was a tiresome cretin, the other was Ok to get along with.
 
That's all City supporting up and coming reporters not eligible for media city BBC then...

On second thoughts it's like that anyway.

I've worked with Scousers of red and blue persuasion years ago. I was a team manager and I had to physically separate the desk space between one Toffee and two rabid Dippers. And this was mid naughties (2007) when Chelsea were in their hey day and neither murkyside club up to much.

The utd supporter was actually OK, we had reasoned chats because we were dross ( pre takeover) and presented no threat. I last saw said scum fan about 10 years ago and it was a marked contrast with sarky barbs about rich oil money. And by then we'd only ( I say only!) denied them the FA Cup, PL and won the League Cup and broke the hearts of the 2014 Premier League Winners ( tm) who most certainly NOT the Dippers. Oh it was fun. I almost wish I was back at work to see what shite would be aimed at me now! ( probably couldn't say too much as I was very senior by then!!).

I think everyone in a workplace of the same opinion is boring and too homogenised - need to hear different viewpoints, even if most of them are lies and virtiol absorbed by the hapless from the football cartel loving media, or biased press in terms of current affairs/ politics.
 
mancityvstoke said:
Working and scouser in the same sentence?
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I know. I use the term loosely in the case of one of them. The other was female and remains a good friend ( we agreed never to discuss football for sake of friendship). The lad had potential but was just lazy! I didn't give him the job, had the misfortune to inherit him when I took over the team.

The Toffee was fine, he wasn't a born scouser and was actually very reliable when he wasn't arguing with the Dipper duo!!
 
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I know. I use the term loosely in the case of one of them. The other was female and remains a good friend ( we agreed never to discuss football for sake of friendship). The lad had potential but was just lazy! I didn't give him the job, had the misfortune to inherit him when I took over the team.

The Toffee was fine, he wasn't a born scouser and was actually very reliable when he wasn't arguing with the Dipper duo!!
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Did the stationery always go missing?
 
It would be very boring just working with the same set of fans. You need diversity for piss taking and staff moral reasons
 
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