Job ads that say, "Are you passionate about...?"
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In my old company, everyone had very much drunk the Kool Aid. If you were less than super enthusiastic all the time , it was like you'd just killed their granny. (Even when pointing out obvious flaws in stuff or whatever
.) As a cynical and practical kind of person who's not very good at faking it, I was persona non grata quite quickly.(Of course there were some other cynical fuckers in there. It was good to meet them and realise other people were
too about some of the cult-like nonsense.)
Idaho
blah blah blah
I genuinely think that LinkedIn is one of the worst thing humans have ever created and participated in.
And people wearing company t shirts voluntarily to work and boasting about how many they had. And asking when the new t shirts would be in and wondering how they could get their hands on them and agitating about when we were getting company hoodies or whatever the fuck.
ETA The general term being 'swag'.
ETA The general term being 'swag'.
Idaho
blah blah blah
No-one is a thought leader. It doesn't exist. It's utter bullshit.
Speak for yourself!
rubbershoes
not the only raver in the village
You have a vacancy.
Idaho
blah blah blah
Corporations are abusive partners.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
I have LinkedIn, it's more the professional version of Facebook, more for networking and job opportunities.
Or, in my case, something so potential employers can contact me saying 'apply for this job' then I do and they ghost me.
Yes, I'm bitter.
Or, in my case, something so potential employers can contact me saying 'apply for this job' then I do and they ghost me.
Yes, I'm bitter.
abe11825
Like to take a cement fix
I’m not saying the company is correct in their job description / posting. I am totally against how it was put up with all the expectations (and lack there of). The only thing I can agree with, is the simple fact of “at least they are brutally honest” and are potentially turning away hard / experienced workers. Or workers in general. Seeing that advertisement made me want to run away in the opposite direction. I wouldn’t even want to use them for my business - won’t be a customer of theirs. Just by reading that list of “demands” for a worker.
My employer gives us a full uniform. Depending on department, you get a different type shirt but everyone gets the same khaki pants or shorts. My department gets a middle of the road light blue polo shirt with the company name on the left breast. Plus a name tag. However, at the start of the pandemic, the company MADE everyone wear a terribly made t-shirt for “casual Friday”. You could wear jeans but you had to wear this very thin, white undershirt. It ran small as well. The front of the shirt had big block letters with a hashtag of the company name + strong. Example #mcdonaldsstrong (I don’t work for McDonald’s just using it as example). It was across the breast, center. Back of the shirt had the company mission statement. Where this is a Christian Missionary Alliance company, it was a religious statement. frogwoman knows the company as I took her on the main road when she was here visiting because I didn’t work there at the time and couldn’t get into the buildings. But talk about not wanting to do your job. Wearing a shirt 2 sizes too small because you think an extra large would fit but runs like a medium… and having religious texts on your back. Not something to be proud of when you’re not religious. I wore it twice to play ball. But I stopped because like I said, it was pretty sheer. They recently gave us dark blue, almost navy, polo shirt to wear on Fridays with jeans. All it has is the company name on the left breast. All employees wear this, like all employees had to wear the t-shirt. I don’t wear that one either. As slimming as it is, it’s a silk type of fabric. Not good for what my role is with the business.And people wearing company t shirts voluntarily to work and boasting about how many they had. And asking when the new t shirts would be in and wondering how they could get their hands on them and agitating about when we were getting company hoodies or whatever the fuck.
ETA The general term being 'swag'.
TopCat
Putin fanboy
I’m nicking that.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
abe11825 I didn't think you did agree with it, don't worry.
As for clothing, some level of polo shirts/ outerwear/overalls are expected in my sector but as I am generally considered to be office-based I would never be expected to wear them. I did wear a branded fleece at my last company but the office was always too col and it's a good cosy fleece in a blue colour that is not offensive. It's one of the few things I kept from my former employer.
As for clothing, some level of polo shirts/ outerwear/overalls are expected in my sector but as I am generally considered to be office-based I would never be expected to wear them. I did wear a branded fleece at my last company but the office was always too col and it's a good cosy fleece in a blue colour that is not offensive. It's one of the few things I kept from my former employer.
ska invita
back on the other side
Email i got today
Hi xxxxxxxxxxxx
Your life as a xxxxxxxxxx could be very busy so let me get to the point.
Is there a reason why you don't have any articles published on LinkedIn?
Have you ever considered Thought Leadership content as part of building your personal brand?
Article-Writing can help you implement a tailored Thought Leadership package.
Specifically, we can help you:
Would you be interested in learning more? Book a slot in my calendar.
Thanks in advance,
~
Some bullshiter
Hi xxxxxxxxxxxx
Your life as a xxxxxxxxxx could be very busy so let me get to the point.
Is there a reason why you don't have any articles published on LinkedIn?
Have you ever considered Thought Leadership content as part of building your personal brand?
Article-Writing can help you implement a tailored Thought Leadership package.
Specifically, we can help you:
- Publish High-value Blog Content (Unlimited Revisions)
- Manage your Linkedin posts and engagement strategies
- Build and automate your PR strategy
Would you be interested in learning more? Book a slot in my calendar.
Thanks in advance,
~
Some bullshiter
All excellent questions! The world could truly be your oyster
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Idaho
blah blah blah
Every time I hear this expression I reach for my Browning.
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
I routinely get jobs when I don’t even understand some of the job description
Hyperbole in an over inflated job description seems the norm
I see myself as being paid to be somewhere, anything much else from me depends on how I’m feeling at the time.
All work is just a game to be played with least effort and maximum reward and avoiding fucking any other players up
Hyperbole in an over inflated job description seems the norm
I see myself as being paid to be somewhere, anything much else from me depends on how I’m feeling at the time.
All work is just a game to be played with least effort and maximum reward and avoiding fucking any other players up
steveseagull
Well-Known Member
I did twenty years of bullshit corporate stuff in both the public and private sector through agencies.
I would start in shirt, tie and suit with a modicum of enthusiasm which quickly waned with more and more exposure to the bullshit. In parallel I gradually dressed down until i was in jeans and t-shirt which irked the suit and tie fascists. (no one should me made to wear such unpractical clothing, no fucker should be demanding someone should be wearing something tied round their fucking neck)
Most of them ended with me calling the bullshit bullshit, not participating in bullshit like away days and not going to bullshit social events with dreadful people you would not dream of hanging out socially.
I used to seek out the fellow cynical fuckers and socialise with them if anyone. They were not hard to find or suss out, they usually hung out in the smoking area.
I specialised in looking busy and stressed out without actually being stressed out or achieving any meaningful work output. This was one of my major strengths and one of the few things workwise I was passionate about.
It usually ended up with me engineering my own dismissal and a few times I got hefty pay outs from the fuckers. One enabled me to go travelling for nine months. I managed this by subtly winding my bad tempered tosser of a boss up so much he threw a desk phone at me and it was caught on the office CCTV.
He had a choice between putting me on gardening leave for the remainder of my contract or assault charges. I was particularly pleased with how that grift worked out. It was a game of chess and I was playing a complete idiot who thought he was clever.
The only job i have really enjoyed was at an agency job at a company in central London. The department had to employ an office full of people so the company would not lose departmental funding for the office so we were basically employed to do nothing apart from two hour lunch breaks playing pool in the pub, pissing around on the internet, flicking elastic bands at each other and fucking off home at 4pm. kept hold of that one for two years until the grift got busted and funding was withdrawn.
Anyway, about ten years ago I ditched all this bullshit off and I now work from home (bed) self employed because i know how to use computers/web/design and shit and I have as little contact with anyone else as possible. I learnt most of those skills whilst fucking around in the corporate world whilst avoiding the job I was being paid to do. I will never be rich but i do not give a shit, I have no mortgage so will plod along
I would start in shirt, tie and suit with a modicum of enthusiasm which quickly waned with more and more exposure to the bullshit. In parallel I gradually dressed down until i was in jeans and t-shirt which irked the suit and tie fascists. (no one should me made to wear such unpractical clothing, no fucker should be demanding someone should be wearing something tied round their fucking neck)
Most of them ended with me calling the bullshit bullshit, not participating in bullshit like away days and not going to bullshit social events with dreadful people you would not dream of hanging out socially.
I used to seek out the fellow cynical fuckers and socialise with them if anyone. They were not hard to find or suss out, they usually hung out in the smoking area.
I specialised in looking busy and stressed out without actually being stressed out or achieving any meaningful work output. This was one of my major strengths and one of the few things workwise I was passionate about.
It usually ended up with me engineering my own dismissal and a few times I got hefty pay outs from the fuckers. One enabled me to go travelling for nine months. I managed this by subtly winding my bad tempered tosser of a boss up so much he threw a desk phone at me and it was caught on the office CCTV.
He had a choice between putting me on gardening leave for the remainder of my contract or assault charges. I was particularly pleased with how that grift worked out. It was a game of chess and I was playing a complete idiot who thought he was clever.
The only job i have really enjoyed was at an agency job at a company in central London. The department had to employ an office full of people so the company would not lose departmental funding for the office so we were basically employed to do nothing apart from two hour lunch breaks playing pool in the pub, pissing around on the internet, flicking elastic bands at each other and fucking off home at 4pm. kept hold of that one for two years until the grift got busted and funding was withdrawn.
Anyway, about ten years ago I ditched all this bullshit off and I now work from home (bed) self employed because i know how to use computers/web/design and shit and I have as little contact with anyone else as possible. I learnt most of those skills whilst fucking around in the corporate world whilst avoiding the job I was being paid to do. I will never be rich but i do not give a shit, I have no mortgage so will plod along
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abe11825
Like to take a cement fix
Yeah, no worries at all.
It's good. And with keeping a borrowed fleece or other clothing option - totally know where you're coming from. I did that with a nice(heavy) fleece zippered thing from Ikea. Too bad I can't use it in Florida. 
Re: ska invita and that email -> I can't answer for Linked In and articles because I don't have a Linked In. If someone were to ask me about publishing things there, I'd (kindly) tell them they're looking at the wrong person because I don't have a profile on the site. In building a personal brand, I don't really have one of those, but I do have my own blog. The company is welcome to take a look and see how I may be passionate about different things. Reviews of devices, taking photos and saying I hate using my iPhone (and love my Canon), etc. Networking through some business site is weird to me. Because Linked In really is like the Farcebook for companies - let's play Pokemon and catch all our co-workers on one site together and see how we can spider out a proper network. No thanks. I've learned the hard way how to keep friends close and enemies closer. I'm not looking to network on social media like that. I can do fuck ups all by my damn self in my own worlds.
Haha - steveseagull and the slow progression of dressing down. Nice way to piss on people. Aren't most cynical fuckers smokers? At least I've seen that in circles / businesses I've come across.
steveseagull
Well-Known Member
Absolutely. Once any management types have left the smoking room, you are in the company of good honest cynical fuckers.
abe11825
Like to take a cement fix
steveseagull Totally agree! Sometimes it's like "give me a good cup of coffee (or tea depending on preference) and a cigarette, find the smoking room and you got yourself a party.
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
How were you able to read the rest of the mail, or post it on urban, from what I assume was a puke-covered screen?
ska invita
back on the other side
As a concept champion I'm always passionate to share inspiring vision-think initiatives
stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
Diversity, industry and cost-efficiency motivate we Creative Technologists, while our trusted and competent beta structurify a goals-based, measurable, force management program. Principle-based pipelines promote the solution orientation of business agility.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
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stdP
One Swiss dinosaur in Polly Gosling's anorak hood
I have a secret weapon in this regard, the excellent Corporate Bullshit Generator.
Sadly its fresh on my mind this week as some prannock in the corporate food chain wanted our bosses to condense what the teams actually do down to a five-word catchphrase (and thus losing all meaning in the process - it reminded me of the Mitchell and Webb sketch of the company that thinks up slogans for other companies). My input, aided by CBSG, was regarded as the most meaningless buzzword-compliant twaddle and thus the most likely to impress the brass.
Idaho
blah blah blah
I can see a lot of synergies with my own vision based goal competencies. I feel we could leverage our mutual approaches to drive a step change and deliver growth across all intellectual product lines.
After 20 years I am my own bullshit generator.
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