Friday, November 25, 2022

Graphic design = a dead field

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Before the idiots at Indeed a/k/a Indeediots killed the forum, I saved all the design-related threads in a folder and have been trying to fi...
Monday, December 23, 2019

I guess the Iraqis just don't understand the value of networking

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I was listening to an interview with Professor Djene Bajalan the other day about the current state of things in Iraq . Check out what he sa...
Monday, August 5, 2019

The latest check-in on that "full employment" claim

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I came across this little job (little because the company has under 50 employees) during the last week of July 2019: Wow, nearly 300 ap...
Saturday, April 27, 2019

Our useless "job centres"

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I recently re-watched “ The Full Monty ,” which I saw when it came out back in 1997. At the center of these men’s lives was the British ve...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

"Fuckers" is too kind a word for these fuckers

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Dan Lyons has a new book out, Lab Rats . I learned about it when I came across a review on The Guardian . From this review it seems that t...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

If I didn't know any better, I'd say companies just don't give a shit anymore

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JP Morgan Chase (not exactly your local yokel establishment) advertised this job recently : Just what the hell is a desinger? Is it som...
Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Hawaiian Electric admits the job it advertised was *fake*

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In January 2018, I applied for a design position advertised by Hawaiian Electric (because who doesn't want to move to Hawaii?). Seven mo...
Monday, July 30, 2018

Skyrocketing salaries in Stinkassachusetts

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Here we have another spectacular opportunity in our booming job market where salaries are starting to really skyrocket: Award Maker ,   ...
Sunday, July 8, 2018

Finally, the word is getting out about our fake job market

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Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Congratulations, GE, for getting kicked out of the DJIA

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The hype surrounding this company opening an office here in both Stinkassachusetts and Rhode Island was hilarious to observe (it brought bac...

Stinkassachusetts: The same old tired companies posting the same old tired jobs

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As I have moved on in my life, no longer tethered to the American job market (thankfully), I no longer have the time or interest in scouri...

Everyone loves HR, right? Right???

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Another “Help wanted, but not from older workers” article, this time from The Boston Globe … Help wanted, but not from older workers: ...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

Fake job alert: PTC

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PTC is another stinky Stinkassachusetts company that loves to advertise the same design jobs over and over. For example, here's the seni...
Thursday, February 8, 2018

Boston College: Just another Boston discriminator

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Every day another blatant display of age discrimination rears its ugly head in the ugly state of Stinkassachusetts. The latest comes from Bo...
Monday, January 29, 2018

Fuck you, boomer

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Recall that, back in January 2015, I had just received my first offer to head overseas and teach English in South Korea. At the time, I was...
Saturday, January 13, 2018

Randstad admits they like them "young and hungry"

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This is the latest "spam job" appearing through multiple staffing agencies in the area this past week. This one, however, uses a f...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Job hunting in 21st century America = Gaslighting

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The word “gaslighting” has been appearing quite a bit these days, mostly in the discussions about domestic abuse. I previously shared my ob...