The Off Topic Topic

[Zanza]

http://creativeaccess.org.uk/opportunities

This is the website in question and it does contain the limitation.

[Martinus]

Mindboggling.

[CountDeMoney]

Doesn't that violate European Union anti-discrimination directives? Or is Britain somehow not a party to these?

I think they are exempted from certain employment discrimination and human rights laws. Also, apparently you are a backward racist, according to CdM at least.

Don't see what your problem with it is;  I see a lot of "assistant", "internship", "trainee" there.  Sounds like plenty of flunky, low-end no-pay jobs that I am sure you'd be more than happy to see niggers in.

[Zanza]

Creative Access was founded in 2012 to provide opportunities for paid internships in the creative industries for young people of graduate (or equivalent standard) from under-represented black, Asian and other non-white minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME). We aim to improve their chances of securing full-time jobs and, in the longer term, increase diversity and address the imbalance in the sector.

In the longer term, the changes we are trying to bring about will create their own sustainability. Our target is for 80% of our interns to secure jobs in the sector and in turn to bring others from under-represented communities in alongside them.

Creative Access is a strategic initiative which complies with its obligations under the Equality Act 2010.

Creative Access is supported by the UK Commission for Employment & Skills, Creative Skillset and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

Maybe they have some kind of exemption or so.

[Martinus]

Doesn't that violate European Union anti-discrimination directives? Or is Britain somehow not a party to these?

I think they are exempted from certain employment discrimination and human rights laws. Also, apparently you are a backward racist, according to CdM at least.

Don't see what your problem with it is;  I see a lot of "assistant", "internship", "trainee" there.  Sounds like plenty of flunky, low-end no-pay jobs that I am sure you'd be more than happy to see niggers in.

Are you drunk or off your meds or something? It must be quite early in the day where you are...

[CountDeMoney]

Are you drunk or off your meds or something? It must be quite early in the day where you are...

Why yes, it is early here.  In fact, it's early enough to declare this weekend a Martinus Free Weekend.  Holiday for all!  Huzzah!

[11B4V]

[The Larch]

Creative Access was founded in 2012 to provide opportunities for paid internships in the creative industries for young people of graduate (or equivalent standard) from under-represented black, Asian and other non-white minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME). We aim to improve their chances of securing full-time jobs and, in the longer term, increase diversity and address the imbalance in the sector.

In the longer term, the changes we are trying to bring about will create their own sustainability. Our target is for 80% of our interns to secure jobs in the sector and in turn to bring others from under-represented communities in alongside them.

Creative Access is a strategic initiative which complies with its obligations under the Equality Act 2010.

Creative Access is supported by the UK Commission for Employment & Skills, Creative Skillset and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

Maybe they have some kind of exemption or so.

Might it be that they are not the ones providing the internship but some kind of agregator that focuses on opportunities for minorities? Maybe this internships are also offered directly through other avenues, such as the companies where the work would be done.

[The Brain]

Creative Access was founded in 2012 to provide opportunities for paid internships in the creative industries for young people of graduate (or equivalent standard) from under-represented black, Asian and other non-white minority ethnic backgrounds (BAME). We aim to improve their chances of securing full-time jobs and, in the longer term, increase diversity and address the imbalance in the sector.

In the longer term, the changes we are trying to bring about will create their own sustainability. Our target is for 80% of our interns to secure jobs in the sector and in turn to bring others from under-represented communities in alongside them.

Creative Access is a strategic initiative which complies with its obligations under the Equality Act 2010.

Creative Access is supported by the UK Commission for Employment & Skills, Creative Skillset and the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills.

Maybe they have some kind of exemption or so.

Might it be that they are not the ones providing the internship but some kind of agregator that focuses on opportunities for minorities? Maybe this internships are also offered directly through other avenues, such as the companies where the work would be done.

Yes, if you couldn't contact the relevant company directly they wouldn't have to warn against doing so.

[garbon]

Are you drunk or off your meds or something? It must be quite early in the day where you are...

Why yes, it is early here.  In fact, it's early enough to declare this weekend a Martinus Free Weekend.  Holiday for all!  Huzzah!

[The Larch]

From the long standing series of brown people having a hard time in air flights in the US comes the next installment:

Penn prof. profiled as a terrorist for doing math on a plane

Penn professor Guido Menzio was on an American Airlines flight when he was profiled as a terrorist — for working on a differential equation onboard.

Menzio was on a plane scheduled to make a short trip from Philadelphia to Syracuse on Thursday when the woman sitting beside him passed a flight attendant a note. The plane sat waiting to take off for half an hour, and then turned around and headed back to the gate. Menzio's seatmate was escorted off the plane — the flight attendant indicated that she was sick — and then Menzio was also escorted off the plane. An agent subsequently informed him that the woman sitting next to him hadn't actually been sick; instead, she had said that she suspected him of terrorism because of the suspicious letters that he was writing, the Washington Post reported.

In response, Menzio just laughed, and explained that what he was working on was a math problem. Eventually, he was deemed harmless and allowed to return to the plane, which finally took off two hours late.

Menzio is a world-renowned economist, and was on his first leg of his trip to Ontario, Canada to give a talk at Queen's University about menu costs and price dispersion. Last year he won the Carlo Alberto Medal, awarded to the best Italian economist under 40. The dark curly hair and olive skin tone that his seatmate may have thought indicated Middle Eastern descent were actually marks of his Italian roots.

Menzio told the Washington Post in an email that the jumpiness of the woman who reported him could be related to rhetoric of the current presidential election cycle.

[CountDeMoney]

If you See Something, Say Something.  That doesn't mean it can't be Something stupid.

[garbon]

If you See Something, Say Something.  That doesn't mean it can't be Something stupid.

But it does as people are generally stupid.

[Admiral Yi]

Heard on the radio that the Powerfullball jackpot was $450 mill before this weekend's drawing.

[Savonarola]

Rail is a safety conscious industry; before going on a job site you have to go through safety training and the company we're serving will usually have a daily safety briefing.  Our office management tries to carry this concept to our office as well giving us a weekly safety message.  Today we learned of the dangers of improperly stored office supplies.  Going from Colombia where crane operators electrocuted themselves by touching the catenary or climbers fell off towers to reading:

-Never try to catch falling scissors.

was a little strange.  We even got this warning sign: