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El Reg reports Job ad promises "Meaningless Repetitive Work on the .NET Stack"
You'll need "numbness to the absence of excellence", will be paid "handsomely for your soul".
"Grease the wheels of capitalism with your tears ...we will pay you handsomely for your soul."
A job ad has appeared offering one lucky worker the chance to perform "Meaningless Repetitive Work on the .NET Stack".
The ad[*] is real. Recruiter Joshua Wulf told The Register he wrote it after a conversation with a candidate "who told me what his job is really like".
[...] The lucky candidate will get to wrestle the following:
- Multiple generations of legacy code that cannot be refactored without destroying the entire house of cards.
- Design anti-patterns as a design pattern.
- Live, mission-critical system where you develop on the production instance.
- Large sections of managed and native COBOL.
- Easily top every development horror story at LAN parties.
To score the gig, you'll need these traits:
- Experience with the following technologies: .NET, ASP.NET, JavaScript, VBScript, COBOL, Managed COBOL.
- An extreme resilience and ability to withstand intense pressure.
- A numbness to the absence of excellence.
- Wily survival instincts and the ability to keep your head down combined with a reckless disregard for type safety.
- A bonus is any political experience, whether as a candidate or as an elected official.
Wulf tells The Register the ad has succeeded. "My phone has been ringing off the hook", he says. "People are telling me they are strangely attracted to the job because other jobs don't sound real."
"I'm surprised by the response: it's blown up!"
Ever seen this kind of honesty in an ad? Did you have the foresight to have archive.is save a copy? Do share.
[*] Ed note: In accordance with the original ad:
Copyright (c) 2016 Joshua J Wulf / Just Digital People.
License: Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 AU.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Thexalon on Monday April 18 2016, @01:41PM
I should point out that many ads like this one used to be created to legally demonstrate that there were no qualified citizens available to take a position, and the company was left with absolutely no choice but to hire somebody from overseas that they can pay a fraction of the price and threaten to deport them if they complain about the 85-hour standard work week.
You're actually seeing less of these, in part because companies seeking to hire from overseas no longer have to demonstrate that there isn't a citizen willing and able to take the job.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Monday April 18 2016, @03:51PM
There are still plenty of positions required to advertise where the hiring manager already knows he's going to promote from within: Well, we interviewed the 5 best qualified candidates from the field and none of them hold a candle to John here, so we're just going to go with John.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday April 18 2016, @04:26PM
There are still plenty of positions required to advertise where the hiring manager already knows he's going to promote from within: Well, we interviewed the 5 best qualified candidates from the field and none of them hold a candle to John here, so we're just going to go with John.
I had a manager who was in the opposite situation, he wanted to hire a qualified local for a field position but upper management insisted that he get someone already in the company to accept a multi-year assignment in the middle of nowhere. His solution was to cherry-pick the people who thought were unlikely to accept to assignment and after several saying no he was finally able to hire the person he wanted for the job.