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My favorite is when the title says remote or local to you, but then the body of the posting says you would be required to relocate and that it was intentionally posted in multiple cities to reach a wider audience.
If I wanted to work in Minnesota, I would have searched for jobs in Minnesota.
Search: part time jobs
- Results: part time job!
- Fine print: full time job, some overtime mandatory
Search: work from home
- Some office time required
Search: job at a place
- Travel required up to 50 miles
Search: one way international flight ticket Boeing planes only
All of these. Also…language: English *Mandarion/French/etc required
Entry level: Minimum 2 years experience
… Is it possible the office is in Southeast London but the actual work is North and West?
This is how field service jobs are written in my experience, yes.
How fucking spoiled are Europeans when they won’t take a job on the other side of town???
I love that you reversed it, when it should be “how terrible do Americans have it where we have to commute so far just to get to work”
And it says the hours are 9 to 5. Who the fuck cares then? If it takes you four hours to get from south east London to north west London, then there’s half of your day. Grab some crisps or some spotted dick and put some footie on your vodafone in the tube.
I live in a suburb to the east of Phoenix. I wouldn’t even consider a job on the west side. Nothing to do with Europe, just the reality of a large city.
Where I live, you can drive for three hours and still be within the city limits
This could be a 90 commute in each direction depending on where it is.
90 time
alright you got me
It’s fairly insane that from Romford to Sutton which is only 30 miles, it’s roughly an hour and 45 minutes.
I just went to the Wiltern in downtown LA last night and it’s about the same distance as Romford to Sutton from where I live, and without traffic, it takes 40 minutes, with traffic an hour.
I used to do Clapham to Cricklewood - which at rush hour could be up to 2 hours if there were delays or it was too busy to fit on a tube.
I once made the mistake of saying I was willing to relocate, like to a different city or something, and they took that to mean anywhere on the planet. And all the jobs they were asking me about when weird places like Saudi Arabia, and it wasn’t even well paid.
But there were probably benefits like if you work hard they might give you your passport back. Maybe.
That sounds like a good way to get trafficked lol
Sounds like the head office is in SE London but you’ll be inspecting areas on the NW side for fire safety adherence, right?
If so, it isn’t like the businesses can bring their whole business down to the office for inspection. I bet “Steve” has the area close to the office but “Jane” just quit and they need someone to cover her old area.
This reminds me of the description of why field positions are listed under remote jobs to often. Yes, the reason I was searching for remote jobs was so I can travel to your remote locations all throughout the day, not because my vehicle has 230,000 miles on it and I can’t afford to replace it at the moment.
Sure, but then you’re not looking for jobs like “Fire Risk Assessor” which clearly indicates you’ll have to travel to sites and Assess their Risk of Fire on site, so you could safely scroll past something like that and look for something like “Remote Computer Doer” that at least indicates it’s probably remote computer type stuff.
Unrelated but this is literally the first time in my life I’ve seen an actual 9-5 job, I only ever see 8-5 or 9-6
That extra hour of wage theft is why it’s the most prevalent kind of theft.
✨️unpaid lunch hourrrrrrr✨️
The only good thing about the security industry in my country is all breaks are paid. However if there is a security emergency on your break you need to drop everything and sort it, as these things tend to be time sensitive.
That said do NOT get into the security industry, workers are treated terribly by the public and higher ups, if you can imagine.
remember to be back by 12:30 for the standup at 12:45
you should have finished eating by then
fuck you i’m gonna eat my tuna sandwich in the middle of your standup
It’s because they reckon on 8-hour days but then under UK law they have to give you two 15-minute breaks and one 30-minute lunch. So they decide that they don’t like that so you’ve got to work the hours back so they add an extra hour on and then claim that your break times don’t count.
But the problem with that is the only reason that I’m having a break in the town rather than at my house is because of all the other hours I’m doing around it. So really they should be paying for it. Capitalism is going to capitalism.
That seems like a US thing? All Nordic Europe countries 8-16 is the US version of 9-5. 8-17 (9-6) would be a 4 days a week job hitting the normal 37 hour work week.
Not all Nordic countries. The main standard work weeks in Sweden are 40 hours for office work employees. Our collective union agreements for most office work places I know of agree on at least half hour unpaid lunch and at least two 15 minute paid breaks each work day. Every place I worked for had flexible hours, which meant I could choose between turning up between 7 or 9, as long as I didn’t miss meetings and worked 40 hours a week at an average, based on monthly calculations. And any overtime was compensated with double time off and/or monetary overtime compensation.
This will of course be different for shift work or nurse/doctor positions. But I’ve never worked an 8-16 job.
Yeah, theres an hour for lunch. It works out to 8 hour days
You’re supposed to get paid for that.
You get salary, its paid
But do you get paid for 8 hour days or 9 hour days?
8 to 5 is 9 hours. They don’t get to not pay you for your lunch break.
You get paid for the month. You arent paid by the hour, you are paid for working for them.
Its a different mindset
OK so next time you’ve done your work for the day, try going home early. Do let us know how it goes.
You aren’t paid by the hour as long as it suits the company. As soon as it suits you, you’re damn well going to sit there until 5pm staring at the ceiling if you have to, THEN you can go home.
That depends on your manager. Ive had some that let me work whenever, one that wanted butt in seat, and right now, I play video games so long as Im reachable.
why does everyone have to have “excellent” skills? just logically not everyone can have excellent skills, or there wouldn’t be excellent skills. i very much doubt everyone currently working there also has equally “excellent” skills. you can’t just say you have to be perfect. i fucking hate this shit
What I hate more are the entry level jobs that will be like that. Like bro it’s an entry level job and you’re expecting people to have a super deep understanding makes no sense. Like I get it’s just marketing and a way to lower the number of applicants to get just the really good ones but it makes it so much harder to figure out what level of skill a job is looking for if they all say they want experts with certain skills or tools.
It’s just marketing.
It’s like how a 7 or 8 out of 10 movie should mean it’s really great, but actually means it was just “ok”.
We like the idea that we are getting something above average, which ends up with a skewed idea of what average is.
It’s not even that. If they ask for average they get trash. If they ask for excellent then trash doesn’t apply and they get average
Or the trash with excellent ability to lie their ass off applies.
At least they are good at lying their ass off!
Yeah at my job at the end of each week my boss will assign priorities to tasks as not priority to high priority. She’ll change them around and discuss why for about 45 minutes and by the end of the meeting every single task is listed as highest priority every week. If everything is always equally the highest priority is anything a priority anymore? Lol
In fairness to requiring “excellence”, I’d imagine most professionals have excellent skills in their field compared to the average person.
I’ve worked a lot of different jobs over the years, some well in my skill set, some well outside, and if there’s one thing I’ve noticed, it’s that with very few exceptions, knowledge and skills matter very little, what matters most is sucking up to the boss, a skill I am exceedingly bad at. Interestingly enough, one of the jobs where skill mattered most was construction, even when I worked for my uncle, he barely cut me any breaks. He once said “you hammer like old people fuck”. Not to mention the number of times he yelled at me because I was shit with a tape measure. “Cut it 3 times and it’s still too short”. Yeah nepotism didn’t help me there.
I hate the ones that are listed as remote, but when you read deeper it says remote - in x location, if there was a way to filter those out of searches, it would be convenient.
Is that the ones where they claim it’s remote but really they need you in the office 3 days a week?
You have to go weast and Nouth
Bloody ell mate, u ad to read all the way to the bott um. Bunch o wankers that bunch
bunchlot
Is 48800 enough to live jn London?
Yes. Even £20,000 is liveable in London although if you really want to maximise your London experience you’ll want more than that.
if you really want to maximize your london experience you should rent a closet in a hallway for £5000 per month
Broom experience, Requiem
It does qualify for the city’s Living Rent program
My favorite is the remote - location jobs. Almost none of them are actually remote, they just want more people to apply so their quota will be met.
This is a huge problem. During my several months of job searching that drove me nuts. Completely different stated in the US. Someone’s opposite side of the country. I would report them to LinkedIn and LinkedIn said there’s nothing wrong. Fucked up LinkedIn
Hey at least it is in the same city, I used to get ones for 2000 Km away.
Well, it’s all Earth.
I await the ones for the Moon or Mars…
Applicant must be willing to relocate to the Barnard’s star system but will also be required in the London office 3 days a week
Thank Zaphod the Hyperspace Bypass is on schedule!
Is this a jobs website? Report it?
WTF are demonstrable analytical skills?
The ability to call out BS or contradictory requirements in a job posting.
