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What's the Worst Job Posting You've Seen?

Posted by Cliff on from the fun-for-a-Friday dept.

Kickstart70 asks: "Recently myself and a number of friends of mine who work or worked in IT jobs have been remarking on absolutely horrible job postings for low-level IT jobs paying small change. It seems the headhunters and employers are still wanting knowledge in everything, at least one degree but preferably two, and want to keep employees on minimal wages (in the job listing linked, the wage is in Canadian dollars). Is this common everywhere? What's the worst job posting you have seen?"

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  1. Re:fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you. by twitter · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Would it suprise you to learn that I have published papers, articles, and a book on the subjects of distributed and parallel computing as well as object-oriented design theory? I rose through the ranks with technical skills, not business skills. I learned my business skills on the job.

    Yes it would surprise me. People who know what they are doing don't look down on others and say things like "they don't know as much as they think they do." Also, people with real accomplishments here have home pages next to their names. I don't see yours and so I assume you have as few as I do, though less social grace.

    I have hired as many people since the "bubble-burst" in March 2000 in the US as in India

    I cursed you for putting ANY work in India.

    I hire "fresh" people and train them routinely.

    That does not square with your arrogant post requiring business specific knowledge for reasonable pay. Indeed you are full of surprises, I mean shit.

    The spec error I missed was buried in hundreds of pages of specs, reviewed by teams of people.

    So teams of people reviewed the spec. Others do the programming. What do you do again? Write papers on object oriented programming? I feel sorry for people who are so convinced they know everything.

    Pity yourself.

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    Friends don't help friends install M$ junk.

  2. Re:Interesting requirements... by biggknifeparty · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Best not to drive in Canada with US plates.

    If perchance I see an American vehicle on the streets here, I go out of my way to cut them off with my Jetta. I'll give a nice little bras-d'or while I'm at it.

    We are also rude to you Americans here. Actually, we treat you like your tourists treat locals abroad.. ;)

  3. Dropping French by Vagary · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I also switched to Japanese after my year of mandatory French. Never really got good at it, but at least we got to watch anime in class instead of that damn pineapple. Now I look at all the federal jobs and wish that someone could have bothered to explain why we were taking French!