Boss: I’d rather employ a paedo than a veteran

[DGuller]

I like people who aren't afraid to pull the trigger.

It's a hit or miss, IMO.  In some environments it's a good trait to have.  In typical office environments, however, people like that tend to alienate their co-workers and their next of kin.

[dps]

So, would the guy employ Siegy?

I'd employ Seigey

I think the question with regards to the employer in the OP was whether he'd hire someone who was both a serviceman and a pedophile.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

The writing on that article is so jingoistic that it has gone to colonize Rhodesia again.

Since when did 'hero' become a synonym for 'serviceman'?

It hasn't unless of course you work for Fox News.

[Syt]

The writing on that article is so jingoistic that it has gone to colonize Rhodesia again.

Since when did 'hero' become a synonym for 'serviceman'?

It hasn't unless of course you work for Fox News.

[garbon]

I clicked and nothing happened.

[Syt]

I clicked and nothing happened.

[Lucidor]

FOR THE RECORD:  I 'unofficially' give *preference* to veterans.  They are far more likely to be good employees in my experience.  Also, for the record, I do not hire convicted sex offenders.

It's a no Winn situation.

[Jaron]

I don't get the hero tag either.

Yeah, being a soldier is a tough job, its a tough life, its very dangerous, and it takes balls (or ovaries) to do it, but slapping the hero label on every single person in a particular occupation devalues the word and worse than that, it gives them nothing to aspire to.

Imagine if Romans called every single person in the legions a hero.

Christianity is to Rome what soldier worship is to the US (and seems to be spreading!!!)

[Neil]

It was amazing, the small differences between the US and Canada.  The reverence for the military was rather unusual.

[grumbler]

It was amazing, the small differences between the US and Canada.  The reverence for the military was rather unusual.

Yes, it was.

[Neil]

It was amazing, the small differences between the US and Canada.  The reverence for the military was rather unusual.

Yes, it was.

You're just mad because you had people spitting in your face and calling you a babykiller after the war of 1812.

[Lettow77]

 I heard if we posted in this thread, we could colonize Rhodesia?

[Admiral Yi]

I heard if we posted in this thread, we could colonize Rhodesia?

Yup, go to it.  You need to supply your own transportation though.

[Ed Anger]

He can raise cats there and on a cool fall morning, you can hear the herd mew.

[Lettow77]

 That notion is as adorable as it is unpractical. They would be mostly orange-and-white, and herded with a long balsa stick with a ball of yarn at the end.

I'd have attack cats to protect the herd from mischevious kaffirs.

The missus has been comissioned to draw this, now.