Over-the-Top Job Postings

As mentioned on Salon, fuckthatjob.com lists overdemanding job postings found on job boards:

Fuckthatjob.com, currently making the rounds of the unemployed, provides a good window onto the dismal reality of the current tech job market. If one needed any proof, the jobs on the site — as well as interviews with several people now looking for work — indicate that we’re now in an employer-dominated labor market. Employers will ask for the world from their employees, and often they’ll come close to getting it, and for very little money. […]

In this sour economy, I found some of the postings rather amusing. Here’s one example from the Salon article:

Or there was a marketing firm in need of a “team player” to work as a copywriter. The applicant, who would be an unpaid intern, had to know HTML, Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, PHP, JavaScript and “search engine optimization.” The company wanted this person to have four years of marketing experience, and work for about 20 hours a week. The position was perfect, the ad said, for people who had “a desire to keep their skills polished during a lapse in employment. In other words, if you haven’t been able to find a job and want to stay ‘in the marketing loop’, this is a great way to do so.” […]

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