{"id":73487,"date":"2020-09-04T07:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=73487"},"modified":"2020-09-04T07:53:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T11:53:47","slug":"hair-salon-had-to-remove-job-ad-for-happy-stylist-because-it-is-discriminatory-against-unhappy-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/hair-salon-had-to-remove-job-ad-for-happy-stylist-because-it-is-discriminatory-against-unhappy-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Salon Had To Remove Job Ad For ‘Happy\u2019 Stylist Because It Is ‘Discriminatory’ Against Unhappy People"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is this what the world has come too?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The ad stated: “This is a busy, friendly, small salon, so only happy, friendly stylist need apply”<\/p>\n

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Alison Birch at her AJ’s Unisex Hair Salon in Stroud, Gloucestershire. (SWNS)<\/p><\/div>\n

A\u00a0hair salon\u00a0says it was told by a job center it couldn’t run an advertisement recruiting a \u201chappy\u201d\u00a0stylist\u00a0because the word is \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d against unhappy people.<\/p>\n

Alison Birch posted a job ad looking for a part-time qualified hairdresser at her AJ’s Unisex Hair Salon in Stroud, England,.<\/p>\n

The position called for someone with five years\u2019 experience of working in a salon, who is “confident in barbering as well as all aspects of hairdressing.\u201d<\/p>\n

And the advertisement stated, “This is a busy, friendly, small salon, so only happy, friendly stylists need apply.”<\/p>\n

A few days after the ad was posted, Birch says she received a call from her local job center informing her they could not run her ad because the word \u201chappy\u201d is considered \u201cdiscriminatory.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(SWNS)<\/p><\/div>\n

The job center stated that the ad makes some people feel like they can’t apply for the job, if they are not ‘happy’.<\/p>\n

She claims the man at the job center said to her: “I’m sorry, but the word happy is a discriminatory word and we aren\u2019t allowed to use it, as somebody who is not happy will be discriminated against.”<\/p>\n

According to Birch, he then asked: “Should we change the word in case somebody thinks that they can\u2019t apply for the job because they are not a happy person?”<\/p>\n

Many of Birch’s friends and customers have expressed their thoughts on the issue.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karen Evans commented: “The world has gone absolutely mad.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“Does this mean that every descriptive word is discriminative… happy, tall, smart, elegant? Good luck with your search.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Julie Thickins added: “I thought this was a joke, realizing it clearly isn’t has left me absolutely speechless… what has the human race come to?<\/em>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is this what the world has come too? The ad stated: “This is a busy, friendly, small salon, so only happy, friendly stylist need apply” A\u00a0hair salon\u00a0says it was told by a job center it couldn’t run an advertisement recruiting a \u201chappy\u201d\u00a0stylist\u00a0because the word is \u201cdiscriminatory\u201d against unhappy people. Alison Birch posted a job ad looking for a part-time qualified hairdresser at her AJ’s Unisex Hair Salon in Stroud, England,. The position called for someone with five years\u2019 experience of working in a salon, who is “confident in barbering as well as all aspects of hairdressing.\u201d And the advertisement stated, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3866,"featured_media":73488,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[34263,34259,34257,34262,34275,34269,34270,34254,34258,9303,34271,9687,34272,17301,34261,34264,34260,34256,14612,34276],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3866"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73487"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=73487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}