Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Help Wanted - 5-month "vacation"

I had to laugh out loud this morning at the classified ad in The Woodstock Independent for a clerical employee at a Harvard asphalt company. Excellent skills required. $10.50/hour to start. (Huh?) No insurance. BUT, and this is a big BUT, "We are a seasonal asphalt company so you will be laid off for the winter and be eligible to collect unemployment Nov-March."

I wonder what IDES has to say about that...

Can a company really hire someone for $10.50/hour, who has excellent phone etiquette, Word/Excel/Email skills, can multi-task, has good math skills, positive and friendly, and "most importantly" excellent attendance? For $10.50/hour? For $78.75/day gross pay?

(Note: this was published previously but "unpublished" mysteriously by Blogger today; thus, it is re-published.)

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