Disappointing Discrimination in the oddest places

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Overwhelmed1
Overwhelmed1 Online Community Member Posts: 34 Contributor
in Everyday life

Apologies if I’m sharing this in the wrong category. I just wanted to share my experience and concerns about how discrimination can occur in the community.


My husband and I have stayed at a nice hotel a few times over the years and when I saw a post from them on Facebook asking people to vote for them for Independent Hotel of the Year I clicked on the link.

I couldn’t vote!

The site had mandatory fields to complete for Job Title and Company. As a recently disabled person I am not currently working. I do not think this should prohibit me from saying who I think deserves an award!


I am horrified at how major organisations do not give any consideration to these simple matters, and that’s before disabled people start applying for jobs with them. But I won’t rant about that now!

The irony was not lost that the awards website had a substantial Accessibility section about how it could accommodate wheelchairs at the event.

I’ve written to the company who I had intended voting for, let’s see if they’re equally concerned- it may well influence whether I return!

If you’re interested I’ll keep you posted 😊

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  • Littlefatfriend
    Littlefatfriend Online Community Member Posts: 199 Empowering

    Hi Overwhelmed1

    That's an oversight on their part!

    Could you have typed in "not applicable" or something similar?

    🤔

  • rubin16
    rubin16 Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 918 Championing

    I would of typed "None of your business" into it xD

  • Overwhelmed1
    Overwhelmed1 Online Community Member Posts: 34 Contributor

    hi @Littlefatfriend I agree it’s an oversight- some organisations just don’t think.

    I didn’t try that, there was no guidance about it but making it mandatory was odd at the least

  • Overwhelmed1
    Overwhelmed1 Online Community Member Posts: 34 Contributor

    hi @rubin16 tempting!

  • colejames
    colejames Online Community Member Posts: 44 Empowering

    They're certainly strange things to have let alone making them compulsory. I notice they have shortlisted now and that all the shortlisted venues are very posh and not your regular hotel. Their competition does seem to aiming at a niche demographic into which I know I don't fit. However the site did let me fill in what I wanted which I put as Retiree and None and it accepted the vote. The weird thing about making them compulsory is that they are going to have an extremely wide set of data responses which will be hard to tabulate or analise which in itself makes the decision really weird. Normally the employment/profession fields would have dropdown menus with defined categories to make analysis simpler. Oh and prevent all of your great suggestions, which the site may happily accept.

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