Re: f*ckthatjob.com
I’m not an optimist by nature, but I believe in the power of positive thinking because I’ve seen it work.
However, this website pulls up so many seething feelings of misanthropy, I’m not sure I can look at it on a regular basis.
The premise is that since the economy is so bad, employers are taking advantage of the situation by asking for people with highly specific, deep experience and offering no pay (yeah, you read that right: a seasoned professional is expected to pony up work for free as an “internship”). A lower-than-usual salary is one thing, but dressing up cheating a desperate person out of free work as an internship…well, I assume I don’t have to go on about that.
Going along with that positive thinking thing, I can see how a lot of these ads are misguided attempts to make the best of a bad situation; after all, a lot of nice people in good companies need help and just don’t have the resources to pay for it; they must think there’s no harm in asking.
But ads like this one for a software engineer that says “Absolutely No Foreigners / We have found most resumes from India to be complete lies” (then, mysteriously, says, “We also are not fond of people who have to take work breaks to eat more bacon”. Is that some kind of racial slur?) makes me want to run in the streets with bandana over my face, chucking Molotov cocktails through the windows of those crappy unimportant tech companies in those equally crappy industrial parks that line the Nimitz freeway as it runs through Freemont and Milpitas, for every friend I have who has had to take a job they are overqualified for where they are humiliated at every opportunity, then have to tell themselves that it’s a good deal, and they should be happy they have it.
Those bastards are all going to pay for this crap eventually. Maybe not now, maybe not tomorrow, but someday.
How’s that for positive thinking?
11:10:54 AM 
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