[ossig] [OT] Re: Job Posting: Linux System Support

[Colin Charles]

Dinesh Nair wrote:

>> The requirement will ensure healthy working environment :) and less 
>> excuse to ask for pay raise :D
>>
>> "Can la bos... cigarette price has gone up"
> 
> what if petrol prices go up ? should they cycle to work ?
> what about housing prices and/or quit rent and arrears ? should they be 
> living in wooden shacks ?
> 
> you can ban smoking in your office, but to suggest that you'd only hire 
> non-smokers is, imho, discriminatory.

I do agree with you Dinesh. Smoke ban in the office, and even near air 
vents outside the office can be enforced by all means. But not hiring a 
smoker, is definitely discriminatory. In Malaysia, equal opportunity 
seems to be a topic that most organizations seem to overlook in their 
job advertisements: racial discrimination, gender discrimination, 
color/ethnic discrimination, and so on. Yet I've not seen people "fight" 
this, to get things "correct"

Language requirement are a bit unique as well. In Malaysia, the national 
language is Bahasa Malaysia. English is widely spoken, even with trade 
overseas. Chinese/Indian dialects are usually not required for most 
jobs, yet the words "required"/"optional"/"preferred" show up a lot in 
searches on Jobstreet. These *usually* (not always, obviously) weed out 
candidates based on race/ethnicity

And then, we've got ad's that say "- Bumiputra candidates are encouraged 
to apply. " (Subject: Linux and OSS Trainers)

[simple search on Jobstreet, as suggested by Yeak, show "preferably with 
...", "... only", "...encouraged to"]

Sorry for going seriously OT for the ossig list (and especially to Yeak, 
who's thread we've forked)! Just some thoughts, as we are in 2007, 13 
years to 2020...</rant>
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Colin Charles, http://www.bytebot.net/