Weren't www.beautifulpeople.com previously listed as www.narcissism.com ?
The Reg's best-looking reader reveals list of jobs for the beautiful
A Register reader has posed as a hottie in order to reveal the positions available on a job-advertisement board for beauties only. Our man told us he employed his professional photo-editing skills to take model-quality snaps (although we're sure he's being modest) and then join beautifulpeople.com, a dating site for sexy folk …
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Monday 10th June 2013 08:37 GMT Dave 126
>"The advert did not say why it was important for a radio presenter to be good looking."
It's perfectly possible that Heart FM had posted the advertisement for the same reason the Reg have had a reporter apply to the site - to get an edge on a story of interest.
Two friends of mine, already couple, applied to www.beautifulpeople.com some years ago for a laugh- she got in quite easily, but it took her boyfriend quite a few attempts - and they then exchanged spoof flirtatious messages before 'getting together'. The website contacted them "Congratulations! Actually, you guys are the first couple to get together on our site, could we discuss using your story to promote our site?" at which point my friends confessed to just messing about.
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Monday 10th June 2013 08:38 GMT Velv
Good looking on Radio
"The advert did not say why it was important for a radio presenter to be good looking."
Because the first thing most listeners do when they hear a sexy voice on the radio is google the name. So one can understand why new recruits need to be considered good looking, since there was a reason some of the longer standing presenters were on radio. (And to be honest, the eye candy was usually rubbish at presenting radio, the not-so eye candy being the much more entertaining presenter).
Paris - example in point - eye candy = rubbish presenter.
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Monday 10th June 2013 10:28 GMT Ian McNee
Re: Good looking on Radio
@Corinne: check out BBC Radio 4 - you get the full gamut of shapes, sizes and looks in male and female presenters, journalists, comedians, etc. - IMHO two of the most talented people on R4, Eddie Mair and Jane Garvey, do not conform to the media-imposed norms of physical beauty.
Not that R4 is perfect - they have a significant London-centric middle class Oxbridge bias (again the two people above don't fit all those categories). And you are right that the media in general are far harsher on women over their appearance than men.
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Tuesday 11th June 2013 05:53 GMT Corinne
Re: Good looking on Radio
Comediennes are allowed to be cuddly, or even plain looking; it's the big exception. Plus we were talking about presenters whose whole job is to put forwards other people's work or introduce other acts.
Then again, anyone remember all the rude comments addressed at Mary Beard when she did her series about Roman everyday life? Screeds of rude and insulting comments all addressed at her appearance, nothing to do with the content at all.
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Monday 10th June 2013 12:12 GMT Jason 24
Re: Good looking on Radio
The trouble I tend to find with "beautiful" people is they are quite dull. You don't need to be exciting when everyone thinks you're amazing and fantastic to look.
It's about 4-5 months in you realise they don't actually do anything but look pretty.
Therefore they can't be any good for radio. Moyles wasn't pretty, but he was entertaining.
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Monday 10th June 2013 17:56 GMT JLV
>The trouble I tend to find with "beautiful" people is they are quite dull.
Asinine comment. There are plenty of beautiful and smart men or women around. Having the one doesn't mean you can't have the other. Nor does being homely automatically mean you're deep.
And no, I am not talking about the not-stunningly-beautiful woman who claimed that she couldn't keep her job because of her looks. She's probably lacking in both.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2330597/Is-Laura-pretty-work--just-pretty-deluded-Move-Samantha-Brick-theres-new-ego-town.html
The problem only happens when their looks get the better of their brains. Or when the people surrounding them assume they are automatically all round awesome just because they're hotties.
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Monday 10th June 2013 17:43 GMT JLV
Re: Good looking on Radio
Not to mention that our local radio stations typically have their DJs show up on stage @ various music or sport events that they are involved with.
Fair or not, it's not unreasonable to surmise that the entourage around cute-but-not-always-talented musicians is preferred to be cute as well.
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Monday 10th June 2013 08:54 GMT jake
During the meanwhile ...
... my wife just came back in after spelling me walking a horse that we board that tends towards colic. I'll be out again after the foreman's 20 minute shift. She has shit on her paddock boots, horse snot on her shoulder & hay in her hair. She is the most beautiful woman in the world. The whippets & greyhounds agree with me, so we must be right :-)
"Plastic People" --Frank Zappa
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Monday 10th June 2013 08:57 GMT Matt Bryant
WTF....?
"......An advert offering a "magic carpet" of a job selling spinal implants......an enormous amount of business and competition."......" I'm sorry, but I must have missed the massive interest in sticking screws in your spine. It's even more worrying that there is an enourmous amount of competition in the field!
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Monday 10th June 2013 17:49 GMT Triggerfish
Re: WTF....?
Actually I have a friend who does this and apart from the fact its sales. It sounds a really interesting job, they have to know and practice performing different types of surgery related to their job, have been in theater seeing things like the da vinci machine being used, and have to know and do a whole host of other quite geeky stuff.
It also pays quite well.
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Monday 10th June 2013 09:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Duh!
My dad used to run a business and whenever they needed a temp, he'd always line up 5-10 interviewees, to check out how they looked.
And then hire the ugliest.
Aside from keeping my mother off his back, he reasoned that if the temp had kept good employment, and it wasn't for her looks, she must be ok.
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Monday 10th June 2013 13:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Duh!
I needed to hire 2 graduate temps, very specific academic requirements. Wife (also business partner) and I narrowed down to 3 for interview, turned out best CVs were female. Pre-facebook so no idea of looks we laughed when three babes turned up! Chose the blonde and the redhead. Livened up the office that summer.
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Monday 10th June 2013 09:25 GMT I ain't Spartacus
Re: You don't know what it's like......
At a place that I used to work, there was a very attractive blond girl in accounts. They used to hot desk, so whenever a PC went wrong, they just moved her to that desk, and she called IT. Funny how it usually took 3 hours to get someone to fix a broken desktop. But she had someone climbing under her desk within 10 minutes, every time...
So, in a large company, every department needs at least one hottie.
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Monday 10th June 2013 18:38 GMT Mark York 3
Re: You don't know what it's like......
While doing a rollout of new computers to a call centre in Plymouth, I would only replace machines\scrabble under one desk cluster when a certain lady (I'll call her "Paris" for the sake of it) was issuing train timetable info to callers, as she had a habit of sitting with her heel tucked up under her crotch & bouncing\rubbing slightly on it as she talked.
Couple of other perks about that job was, they kept me on in error for weeks afterwards supporting\troubleshooting the build (mouse driver issue) & the limitless amounts of tea I was drinking supplied by the tea ladies.
Happy times!
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Monday 10th June 2013 11:23 GMT RobertD
Surely...
You've heard about the man hiring a new PA, requirement = speaks 3 languages and can do 100 words per minute. He ends up with a shortlist of 3 - a brunette who speaks 3 languages but can only manage 80 words per minute, a redhead who speaks 2 languages but can do 90 words per minute, and a blonde who only speaks one language but can do 100 words per minute. Who gets the job?
The one with the biggest boobs of course.
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Monday 10th June 2013 11:42 GMT Corinne
Re: Surely...
Sadly that's exactly what happens. All other things being equal, a more attractive person will get a job over a less attractive one (both male & female). The problems come when the attractiveness or otherwise becomes one of the selection factors other than the very last "tie breaker"...
Me bitter at losing jobs or promotions to younger, more attractive, less qualified & much less experienced people? You bet I am!
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Monday 10th June 2013 16:38 GMT Tom 7
Re: Surely... Corinne
"Me bitter at losing jobs or promotions to younger, more attractive, less qualified & much less experienced people? You bet I am!"
Sounds like you were better off not working there. If attractiveness comes into it you can guarantee some more important priorities are equally fucked up.
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Monday 10th June 2013 13:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Lookism
If you have any information about laws against discrimination based on appearance perhaps you could add it to the Wikipedia article on "Lookism". I see various mentions on the web of there being such a law in Victoria (the Australian state) but that's all I can find with a quick Google search.
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Tuesday 11th June 2013 09:04 GMT teebie
Re: Lookism
I believe "lookism" is generally not lawful when it comes to workplace discrimination, unless there is a reason that looks are relevant to the position.
I'm basing this on a case where Hooters were allowed to discriminate against someone. If you want more details google for them, I don't fancy searching for them from work.
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Monday 10th June 2013 14:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: The law m'lud
It's only illegal when it involves women. You can't have men only jobs / gyms / clubs. But it's perfectly fine to have women only versions.
Likewise if a woman gropes a guy it's "all in good fun" and possibly thrown out, other way round you're looking ata few years if she doesn't appreciate it.
And of course, if you're a man you aren't allowed to hire an attractive woman over an ugly one because it's clearly your carnal desire which has made you hrie her. While if a woman hires a sexy guy over an uggo it's perfectly reasonable.
Found a comic about this the other day, alas, can't find it at work.
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Monday 10th June 2013 15:43 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: The law m'lud
I have seen more professional women with tattoos on their wrist - or in another often-visible-in-the-work-place location, such as the ankle - than I have men the same. It's almost as if society expects to see more decoration- in the same way as jewellery or plaited hair- on women.
That is, of course, purely anecdotal 'evidence', perhaps biased by the fact that I was just paying more attention to the gender that floats my boat.
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