What Job Ads Really Mean
Advancement opportunity - Lousy job
Entry Level - Really a lousy job
No experience necessary - The mother of all lousy jobs
Administrative assistant - Lousy job with a title
Ground floor opportunity - Lousy job with a company that will file bankruptcy within a year
Progressive company - Employees get to wear jeans every other Friday
Team player - Must deal with dangerously territorial coworkers with rabid personalities
Upbeat personalities - Must neither threaten us with any kind of lawsuit nor use the drug alcohol rehab benefit within the first
year
Word processing skills essential - There is a crippling case of carpal tunnel syndrome in your future
Public Relations Receptionist - Professional appearance important -$20 K a year job that requires a $100K year wardrobe
Pleasant telephone manner - Be the voice of 1-900-suck
Earn up to $300 per hour - Be 1-900-suck
Salary range $24K to $32K - The salary is $24K
Jeans job! - Minimum wage temporary job in concentration camp office
Will train - Prior conviction of a felony or two, no problem
BA required, MA preferred - Must be a MA willing to work for a BA salary
Civil service - This job was filled from the inside six months ago
Women/minorities encouraged - White males need not waste a stamp
Outstanding benefits package - Health insurance
Tons of variety - We took all of the heinous tasks no one else would do and rolled them into one job
Top notch communication skills - Telemarketing
Beautiful offices in attractive locale - Brand new tacky windowless office where picture frames match the carpet
Secretary - Woman only job with the responsibilities of management and the wages of a migrant worker
Executive secretary - The most powerful position in any company
Dedicated - You're looking at a minimum of 80 hours a week until we force you into early retirement
Salary commensurate - We'll pay you whatever the hell we feel like
Salary negotiable - We'll take the lowest bidder
Competitive salary - We'll pay you up to 10% more than your last job-period!
Competitive starting salary - Ten cents above minimum wage
Pleasant atmosphere - A staff of pod people
Professional atmosphere - Zombie pod people
Fun, creative atmosphere - Pod people from hell
Dynamic atmosphere - Zombie pod people from hell
Gal Friday - Anyone who actually applies for this job deserves it
Self starter - Open to very broad interpretation, since no one really knows what this means