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Ganoncrotch on 22 July 2015
Aeolus451 said:
fatslob-:O said:

It's a can of worms anyways ... 

A transsexual doesn't identify to be from either genders. So whether it's a female to male or a pre-operation male to female doesn't matter as long as Aelous identifies that person as a male on his end ...

Yes, it's a can of worms. The bolded part is not true. A transexual is a person who is not happy with the gender they were born with and they are actively trying to emulate or become the other gender.  

It's important in a employer to employee relationship to be polite with a transexual employee or applicant (with any employee). You should refer to them as the gender they identify with and to use their prefered name instead of the given one. It's rude to them if you don't. 


You can be dismissed from an Interview for having a number of buttons done up on your jacket that the interviewer doesn't like, Don't imagine that if there is 500 applicants for a position that the Interviewer is going to be kind and nice to every single person they know are not the one of the job. They get paid for the most part to fill a position not by how much time they spend on each interview which is a dead duck.

Like I said I wouldn't expect any interviewer to entertain the thought that someone who has had drastically poor work/makeup done to alter gender should be put higher up on the pile than a woman who was born with a face not made for receptionist work due to trying to be PC, that is just wrong. I'm not saying that the fact that they are transgendered should have any negative points against a person getting a job, but they shouldn't get any special treatment because of it either.



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Porcupine_I on 22 July 2015

It depends on the store, if it caters to hypocrits and bigots, i wouldn't hire them.

Otherwise any day, as long as they are qualified for the job.



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Nettles on 22 July 2015
generic-user-1 said:
Nettles said:
Depends on the location.If it was in NYC, Boston, Seattle, Portland then yeah but not if it was in the bible belt or rural conservative areas.

pff, a white transgender will be better than a muslime, a black, a latino or a gay person inn these areas...

No, i don't think so.



Mr.Playstation on 22 July 2015

No, I wouldn't if he/she was an obvious transgender due to a possible hit in sales but the few in real life transgender I've seen have always at least at a first glance looked like the gender they wanted to be so if that's the case and he/she was the most qualified. I would still hire a transgender person.



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Tachikoma on 22 July 2015
fireburn95 said:

Let's say it was your standard brick n mortar retail store. This employee would have to face customers.
Let's say the applicant is good, well qualified and apparently reliable.


Stop right there, that's the only relevant information you really need.

Lifes to short to be spending it worrying about what other people are doing to be happy in their lives.



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Neodegenerate on 22 July 2015
fireburn95 said:

Let's say the applicant is good, well qualified and apparently reliable.


This gets them hired regardless of <insert race, sex, situation, choices, etc here> and they keep the job so long as the productivity and reliability are both there consistently.



KingCherry on 22 July 2015

No, I wouldn't. If I was in charge of the business, I'd prefer down to Earth straight laced people whom would slot in nicely. Some employee cohesion.



Frogger on 22 July 2015
Goodnightmoon said:

And if I lose customers because of that, then that´s not the kind of costumer I want.


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ReimTime on 22 July 2015
Teeqoz said:
ReimTime said:

Welllllllllllllll yes it's still discrimination (exclusion based on personal preference) because that is the definition:

"Discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person or thing based on the group, class, or category to which that person or thing belongs rather than on individual merit."

In relation to how I said I would hire based solely on capability etc, being a customer when I go into a store/restaraunt etc I judge based on service, not race/gender etc.


Then, by the way he explained it, it wouldn't be descrimination. He would be declining to hire that person because he thinks it might hurt his business, not because of that persons gender, group, class or "category". He might be wrong in his assumption that it would hurt business, but it wouldn't be discrimination, by the very definition you provided.

 

As for me, I'd hire her/him, but I would keep a close track of business, and if I saw signs of the business doing worse after she/he started, I do my best to move her/him to a less visible position, because after all, I'd want my business to thrive.

He thinks it might hurt his business because of the person's gender/group/class/category which is the entire basis for the declination. 6 of one, a half dozen the other.



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Random_Matt on 22 July 2015

Nope, it's not about me, it's about the business. Some people will just be uncomfortable with it.