The job from Hell (1 Viewer)

[Scientician 0.8]

Surprised they don't expect a donation of a pint of blood a week too for this €25K job
Social Media and Content Marketing Executive - Phorest - Jobs.ie - Jobs in Ireland. Irish Jobs.

The whole tone of it and expectations, what a fucking rotten job and company.

 

[rettucs]

thejournal?

 

[тхеодоре кацзынски]

Christ but that sounds desperate. The most desperate part being that there's someone out there reading it and thinking "Sounds great".

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Your typical (as if) day would look something like this:

As if!

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

You’re an amazing righter. When it comes to grammar and flair, you know what’s write, and what’s wrong… (you should now be abhorred by this sentence)

Oh the lols

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

You are the one-man (or woman) Phorest blogging and social media unit. You’re an opportunist. You know how social marketing works and you only waiting for the next opportunity to gain social capital

...followed closely by a love of all social. You must eat, sleep and breathe social - you have a deep understanding and interest of everything from Vine to Snapchat to StumbleUpon etc.

You are human spam

 

[Scientician 0.8]

You are the one-man (or woman) Phorest blogging and social media unit. You’re an opportunist. You know how social marketing works and you only waiting for the next opportunity to gain social capital

...followed closely by a love of all social. You must eat, sleep and breathe social - you have a deep understanding and interest of everything from Vine to Snapchat to StumbleUpon etc.

You are human spam

That's the thing, it is heavily implied that this is a 24hr a day job. I interviewed for something similar a few years back and they were like "so what if the Oscars were on, would you stay up to blog about it?" and I was like, "for a a tenner an hour??"

 

[GO]

An hour for lunch though ..not too shabby

 

[Scientician 0.8]

An hour for lunch though ..not too shabby

Yeah but you have to instagram it probably.

 

[Hector Grey]

'Content' is turning into one of those words. Something devoid of all meaning. Something that's now the opposite of what the word actually means. Literally.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

That's the thing, it is heavily implied that this is a 24hr a day job. I interviewed for something similar a few years back and they were like "so what if the Oscars were on, would you stay up to blog about it?" and I was like, "for a a tenner an hour??"

There are people like that though, plenty of them. Who'd think blogging about the Oscars or the Mercurys as something they'd love to do and be great at.
Feeds into that whole follow-your-passion thing.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

There are people like that though, plenty of them. Who'd think blogging about the Oscars or the Mercurys as something they'd love to do and be great at.
Feeds into that whole follow-your-passion thing.

Yep. They will likely have no problem filling this job.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

The thing that strikes me is that it's aimed at a woman, and there's probably an extra low-ball factor built in there too.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

The thing that strikes me is that it's aimed at a woman, and there's probably an extra low-ball factor built in there too.

A young woman at that.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

A young woman at that.

400 quid a week sounds okay to me. But it probably isn't.
Probably 150 of that is going straight to rent if you're sharing.
And you're fucked for a holiday.
Yeah, it's a bit shit.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

400 quid a week sounds okay to me. But it probably isn't.
Probably 150 of that is going straight to rent if you're sharing.
And you're fucked for a holiday.
Yeah, it's a bit shit.

Don't get me wrong, I get paid less than that currently, but there are other compensations for my job, one being that when I clock out I can forget about it until I clock in again. No weekend work ever unless I volunteer to do overtime etc. These sort of jobs demand so much from the worker and eradicate the, in my opinion, important line between your working life and your private one.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

in my opinion, important line between your working life and your private one.

I get where you're coming from. And I'd agree with you for the most part.
Isn't there a generational shift toward doing work that dovetails with your passion though?
People in their 20s and 30s seem to want to follow their dream or something. This used to be something hippies did, now everyone does it.
I'm with you. I think you clock in and clock out, get money and follow your dream on your own time.
But these kids, man. They're constantly in search of their own uniqueness.

 

[Scientician 0.8]

I get where you're coming from. And I'd agree with you for the most part.
Isn't there a generational shift toward doing work that dovetails with your passion though?
People in their 20s and 30s seem to want to follow their dream or something. This used to be something hippies did, now everyone does it.
I'm with you. I think you clock in and clock out, get money and follow your dream on your own time.
But these kids, man. They're constantly in search of their own uniqueness.

It seems like the journalism/arts/creativity in general fields have way more people trying to get into them than in the not too distant past. The online world offers more platforms so presumably requires more people in these fields to satisfy the demands of the public but these fields seem riven with a work for free or for a pittance (while handing over your whole life) attitude. I suppose it's all part of the late stage capitalist prosumer malaise, mahnnnnnnn. I just think that is a shitty ad for a shitty job that represents much that is shitty about the west in the current epoch.

 

[pete]

Isn't this what "jobs" in "marketing" and "PR" were like about 15 years ago?

 

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Surprised they don't expect a donation of a pint of blood a week too for this €25K job
Social Media and Content Marketing Executive - Phorest - Jobs.ie - Jobs in Ireland. Irish Jobs.

The whole tone of it and expectations, what a fucking rotten job and company.

That's not a million miles from my daily procrastination schedule.