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There are good reasons for this, tall bosses are seen as domineering and can often be found taking the mick from smaller members of staff. Also tall staff can cause disharmony as smaller staff resent their status in life.
Of course, tall staff don't like this idea, as they are tall and often physically stronger they say they more than carry their share of the burden of work and should not be limited in numbers. If anything, this is adding to discrimination where there should be less.
I find it hard to take sides here, clearly Government interference is most welcome on such subjects as nit-picking from the centre always leads to better productivity and performance outcomes; yet somehow I feel that discrimination is unwelcome..what do you think?
I think this could lead to policy of only hiring people above say 5"5and outsourcing the short people's work to contractors or companies which will probably be excempt from the rules.
ReplyDeleteSo it will probably have little impact infact if it has any impact it will be an adverse impact to the short people, funny how interfering policys have a habit of hurting the people they intend to help
As I see it the tall people will be scurrying around (can tall people scurry?) looking for the shortest person in their organisation so they can buy him/her some Cuban/high heel shoes. Personally at 5'7" I never envied tall people, especially when I used to fly around Europe regularly (legroom - what's your problem?) :)
ReplyDeleteWhy not just go the whole hog and cut tall people down to size?
ReplyDeleteI think "seen" ought to be "scene"
ReplyDeleteI'm all in favour. In my profession I'd quite like to be paid 20 times the salary of John Bercow.
ReplyDeleteSince both tall and short people in the public sector don't actually produce anything but rather consume other peoples' taxes then I'm all in favour of restrictions.
ReplyDeleteThis is indeed a good thing and long overdue.
ReplyDeleteThere is an inherent gender bias in selecting tall staff - anything that reduces this, and therefore the macho bullying culture prevalent in all works spaces - the better.
Yours
Ms St. Umpy.
I’m 6’3” and am “offended” by the above. Under Harriet Harman’s Equalities Act (2010), anyone who is offended by anything can report the incident to the police, who in turn take action against those responsible for the “offence”. I have duly reported the above article (and my hurt feelings) to the police.
ReplyDeleteWhy not just employ a load of Chinese lesbians - then you'll fill an awful lot of quotas in one hit.
ReplyDeleteThey do exist. I used to work with one who refused to wear a bra ...
Wan Hung Lo
Buy shares in Rack makers now!
ReplyDeleteHave to keep looking for that "humour tag" on your posts, CUS.
ReplyDeleteMost people, in the public or private sector, never see the tallest people in their organisations. Generally the more elevated people are in completely different parts of the country, & the people we see who are taller than us are only sort of a bit taller than a dwarf anyway.
ReplyDeleteIn this city, I should imagine in most large towns & cities outside the south, the culture of small & medium companies where you work alongside your boss barely exists. Most people either work in the public sector, at branches/plants owned by large corporations, or don't work at all. That applies to almost everyone I know, apart from 2 people who co-own a bar & can't afford to hire any staff anyway.
Minimum wage, 48 hours a week = £14,801 a year
ReplyDelete20x that = £296,020
The Green party have a "maximum wage" policy. They say it should be set at £250,000.
I can see where it's all going to go wrong - tall bosses can either sack themselves or sack all the short people. Either way, the height-gap is reduced.
ReplyDeleteAs to the multiple of twenty, Will Hutton himself explains his thinking here.
I know my place
ReplyDeleteI worked for the same company for 23 years, until made redundant in 2006. In my time, I must have seen off about 10 bosses, at least. Some twunts, some great, but all were OK bosses - which is what matters.
ReplyDeleteThe last one, who was the reason I grabbed redundancy when offered, was about 5 foot nothing. I'm 6'6", and a tad outspoken. So if I thought he was fucking up, I would tell him. This would outrage him, and we would row in the office. I would always stand up, so towered over him. There's something to that Randy Newman song. Midget Steve drove me out of my job. Cunt
This happened back in the 70's.
ReplyDelete"Apart Height" in Soth Africa... To the barricades mes amis!
(Or was it "The Goodies"!)
TTFN :)