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ddvmor


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How can you possibly get away with telling someone thay are too tall to do a job...  because their legs won't fit under the desk...?





A graduate lost out on his dream job because bosses at an air traffic control centre said he was too tall.


Ben Sargeaunt-Thomson, who is 6ft 10in (2m 8cm) tall was offered a place as a trainee for the National Air Traffic Services (Nats) in Swanwick, Hampshire.

But the offer to the 23-year-old, from Northampton, was later withdrawn because the company thought his 38-inch (0.96m) legs would pose a safety risk.

A tribunal reserved judgment on claims of indirect sexual discrimination.



Seems to me that if he was disabled, say in a wheelchair, they'd make arrangements for him - enure he had proper access and could reach the computer and so on.  How is this different?


I also notice that they tried to get 'em for (indirect) sexual discrimination.  Not quite sure how they came to choose that particular bit of legislation.  I guess it was a best fit, although you could argue that excessive tallness is genetic, so they must be disciminating against his genetic heritage - racial discrimination... or possibly (and apologies to our 9-foot-tall, portsmouth-dwelling dodgers) a disability... to er being short.  Ok, I'm stretching it a bit now.  Hah!  Stretching.  Oh that's good.  I amaze myself sometimes!



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BrianS


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Oh absolutely! If he was in a wheelchair it would a completely different story. They would have made every modification necessary for fear of backlash. It would be different if this was a military job where he physically could not fit into say a submarine bunk or a fighter jet. Actually NASA does not (or did not in the past) allow astronauts to be over 6 feet tall because they did not want to have to redesign the flight suit. It would be cheaper just to find another body.

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Copper


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Rubbish, chop his legs off!




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Calvin


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Copper wrote:

Rubbish, chop his legs off!

 


Copper!!!!


I think tall people get discriminated on a daily basis (as get all people who are slightly different): we don't fit the norm...so there are no clothes, cars, furniture ....to fit us. Take small people: how are they supposed to reach the top shelfs in the supermarket?



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Copper


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No sympathy.  Tall people, on average, are more successful.


http://www.shortsupport.org/News/0124.html


Chop their legs off. 



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ddvmor


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heh heh heh...


Watch the interplay between the 9 foot lady and the tiny, tiny girl.  It's most entertaining!


Who wants to be average, anyway?  Being the same as everyone else is just boring.



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sha76jam


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That's disgustingly blatant discrimination!  I'd seen the link on the Beeb site before, but assumed he wanted to be a pilot, planes being a little harder to adjust.  I hope he does so well in his career that in a few years he gets to be boss of the Hampshire lot & make those idiots lives misery!  (I enjoy mixing karma with bitchiness!)

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