You really have to be careful with how you word things these days. A hair salon owner in the U.K. says she was told by a job center that she could not run an advertisement recruiting a “happy” stylist because the word is “discriminatory” against unhappy people. Alison Birch listed the part-time job for a qualified hairdresser, noting the position requires someone with five years’ experience of working in a salon, who is “confident in barbering as well as all aspects of hairdressing.”
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It also added, “This is a busy, friendly, small salon, so only happy, friendly stylists need apply.” However, Birch says she got a call Wednesday (September 2nd) saying “happy” was a discriminatory word. Birch shared the critique from the job center on Facebook with her customers, many of whom commented, “The world has gone absolutely mad.”