Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The heartlessness of the common job advertisement. If you issue such ads, please consider your audience—the unemployed.

Join us!

…reads the job listing title. The listing continues with…

As we create wonderful wonderfulness in a wonderful workplace!

GREAT! When do you want me to arrive? When do I receive my first paycheck? Oh, what? You aren’t offering me a job? Then what are you telling me?

Oh, I get it. As I consider the two dozen job offers in my pocket, I should remember that yours is the top workplace in the market. Oh, sure, great.

But wait. I don’t have two dozen job offers in my pocket. The economy is a shambles. The economic recovery doesn’t exist. My experience is irrelevant. Touting the wonderfulness of your workplace sounds heartless.