An Outsiders View on Job Listings
I did something today I haven’t done in years. I looked at job listings. There were two things that struck me most:
First, apparently “cashier” or “customer service represenative” is no longer exciting enough to entice people to work for minimum wage. No. Now they are “customer advocates” and “product-use training specialists” or some other such inflated nonsense.
“Hey, I hear you got a job as a cashier at the grocery store. Congratulations!”
“Excuse me. I am not a cashier. I am a front-of-house payment engineer.”
You still get paid shit but at least you sound important and valued.
The other thing I noticed were photos of ‘teams’ with smiles the size of Texas. Gosh! Everyone at So-in-So’s is so ecstatic! We’re talking smiles for miles and in such fun poses, too. It must be the best gosh-darned place to work in the whole world! I wonder how long it takes them after a shift for their faces to unfreeze. I wonder if facial reconstruction surgery is included in the employee benefit package.
Please know I am not intending to insult those who work such jobs. On the contrary, I have tons of respect for what they are willing to endure. It is the corporate world which I find revolting in all its shiny, sparkly fakeness…as if they actually cared about the lives of their employees in any way that wasn’t actually about the bottom line.
Too cynical?