When job-hunters attack

There comes a time in the life of some craigslist job hunters when they just snap and become the hunter they’ve always been destined to be. In the above instance, the land shark is pouncing on its’ unsuspecting prey in a similar manner. The craigslist ad I’m referring to is here:

We are one of the sponsors of the *Newspaper Art Event Withheld* event and are looking for an experienced, outgoing, and fun Caricature Artist to help at our booth. You will get free entry into both venues and will do caricature sketches for our booth from about 7pm until 2am. This will be a very fun event to be involved in, and happens February 23rd at *Location Withheld* Nightclub.

Please respond if interested!

* Location: Downtown
* Compensation: $100, Negotiable.

You know, it’s a party where you can draw some people, make some tips. Pretty much the life of a caricature artist, no? Well, I don’t know, it sounds pretty crappy to me. And so did a disgruntled caricature artist, apparently:

Give me a break! 7 hour late night shift in downtown doin caricatures for…$100. I personally like to be kissed when Im fucked…

The anonymity of raigslist is sometimes its’ downfall, too. I enjoy being able to browse anonymously, but if you’re not willing to comment using your actual name maybe you should reconsider what you’re commenting about.

Danny Findey might not have the worst job, but he sure did piss someone off!

Just like any other day, I was perusing the recent marketing job postings on craigslist when I saw this: RE: Catering Event Designer. That sounds like an odd job title, so I click to read more. Well, turns out this is not a job posting at all! It’s a rant from some pissed-off disgruntled employee, i assume. Danny Findey, today you win.

RE: Catering Event Designer

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Reply to: job-563860254@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-02-05, 12:04PM MSTCatering By Design was a great company, but when they hired Danny Findley as their “Sales Director” they took a turn for the worse. He has no knowledge of how to created a catered event. He has no knowledge of how to manage or supervise a sales team. He has no knowledge of marketing. He is also very condescending to all the employees and he style of management is not democratic.
You would think these are critical skills needed to have a successful sales team.

He has created a bad vibe throughout the whole company.
The worst thing about is that the owners are doing nothing about it.

Catering By Design have a lot of great people working for them and the owners at one time had their heads on straight, but that was the past this is now.

Yeah, the photo with the handful of cash isn’t selling me.

I just saw this “job” listing on craigslist just now with the headline of “WHATEVER YOU DO, DON’T LOOK….”. Well, I looked. And I cringed. Unsurprisingly, it’s a work-from-home scam. Looks like a really awesome gig. Not really.

I don’t want to be part of your Pyramid

As a current job hunter, I see tons of sucky jobs every day.  But I have to say, one of the most annoying things is to receive emails from 3rd party recruiters telling me that not only am I qualified for the management positions they have, but ALSO I have the potential to earn a six-figure income.  In fact, I have even received phone calls of this nature.  Here is how it goes:

Phone rings.

Me: Hello

Sleeze: Hello Brianne, I am in receipt of your resume and I’d like to invite you in for an interview.

Me:  That sounds Great!  What is the position and what company are you with?

Sleeze: We have various sales and marketing positions.  Let’s meet at 12:00 at the Marriott in the Tech Center.  

Me: Ok, can you tell me a bit more about the position?  Perhaps you could email me a job description.

Sleeze:  That’s just what I was going to do.  I’ll send it on over and I look forward to meeting you.

Well, he did follow though on his word and I did receive an email.  However, rather than a job description it was instructions telling me to print out some form and bring it with me.

So today, I nominate jobs like his for super suck job of the day.  Not only does he have to deal with the self loathing and hatred towards his own job, but he also has to try to recruit new people into his black hole as well.  I don’t have the name of the company to warn you because, of course, that information was never given to me.

You’re almost a god at your job that makes you $6 million this year, you fuck a supermodel, and your job still sucks today

Of course, I’m talking about Tom Brady! The New England Patriots’ quarterback has been making his job look much too easy the last 5 months. Competitors bested. Records broken. Supermodels slept with (probably multiple ones, c’mon it’s Tom Brady!). Paparazzi are following you around everywhere. But you don’t win the Super Bowl and your team goes 18-1. Your job sucks today.

I’m not saying that his job really sucks every day, but today Tom Brady’s job sucks. And probably for a while, it’s going to suck. Whereas you can’t lay all blame on him, it’s safe to assume that many people are going to. And if it’s not entirely his fault, Tom Brady is the face of the Patriots.

I’m not saying that I wouldn’t take $6 million bucks (and about 15 million last year) to play a game as my job, but it has to be tough to be Tom Brady today.

Welcome to the not-so-great job hunt

Brianne, a friend of mine is currently looking for employment opportunities in the Denver area. Check out her progress at her blog, The Great Job Hunt. I once tried to register the domain www.notsohotmail.com (and I’m still a little bitter about it not being used for anything), and I figured I should jump on this subdomain before someone else did. Incidentally, I also own rkcilf.com (which is flickr backwards, naturally, but I really need to do something with that). But I digress.

There are some really great jobs in the world, but they’re tough to come by. This blog exists to highlight some of the not-so-great jobs out there. Bad jobs vastly outnumber the shining star jobs. Which was sort of the point of those careerbuilder.com ads in the Super Bowl last night.

I’ve always been a fan of craigslist, and that appears to be where most job hunts begin, so I’ll most likely be talking some shit about ads I find there. Brianne is my trusted bad-job-searching blog companion. Stay tuned for jobs you should probably be avoiding.