it's political correctness GONE SANE

Nice to see the Australians conforming to national stereotype by taking a commendably robust attitude towards this bit of cheeky job advert hackery by a former employee of transport company Border Express. The attributes listed below were not part of the original advert:

And nor was this footnote:

Gratifyingly, no-one is being prosecuted or anything, even after the perpetrator came forward and confessed the company were very understanding. Ideally you need to say this next bit in a comedy Aussie accent, particularly the word "turps":

He wasn't disgruntled or anything, he just mucked up... he got on the turps one night and it went from there. He fully understands what he has done and he's very remorseful.

Whether the same humorous shrugging off will be done in the case of the guy (David Kiely, an employee of Macquarie Private Wealth) who opened an e-mail with some saucy pictures in (a Miranda Kerr shoot for GQ, if you're interested) while a colleague behind him was doing a live TV interview (that link contains an embedded clip, a full high-res version can be found here) remains to be seen.

Apparently the matter is being "dealt with internally" and meetings will be taking place later this week. Doesn't sound good, but if he just claims to have "got on the turps" he should be OK.