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RE: Take this tech job and shove it
by crankymessiah at 11:51 am EST, Mar 13, 2003

Dolemite wrote:
] The worst part, Bershadsky found, was that several postings
] warned that employees should not only be qualified to do a
] job, but that they be "excited" and "passionate" about it -- a
] requirement that Bershadsky found difficult to fulfill because
] "80 percent of the jobs I was seeing posted, with these
] outrageous requirements, were unpaid internships," she says.
] "These were internships that required you to have three or
] four years of experience. What kind of shit is that?"
]
] After a couple months of this, Bershadsky had had enough; she
] wanted to do something about the jobs she was seeing. So she
] went to a domain-name registration service and bought a URL
] for a new site she thought would, if not exactly make a
] difference in the world, at least make her feel better. The
] URL Bershadsky registered was fuckthatjob.com. "It was exactly
] what I was feeling," she says. "It felt right. I couldn't
] think of anything else to call it."

]
] Funny, yet not so funny story.

I actually saw the site before I read this story. It was linked on BBSpot today. It's nuts the nerve some of these employers have but it does make for some fun reading.

RE: Take this tech job and shove it


 
 
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