👻 Job boards are still rife with 'ghost jobs'. What's the point? - BBC
「 More than 40% of hiring managers said they list jobs they aren't actively trying to fill to give the impression that the company is growing. A similar share said the job listings are made to motivate employees, while 34% said the jobs are posted to placate overworked staff who may be hoping for additional help to be brought on 」
I always wonder if the people who write job postings realize that "fast-paced, dynamic environment" sounds like code for "chaotic, messy workplace with loads of pressure". I feel like some of them think it sounds cool, and so they put it in, even when the workplace actually has things under control. But I see it and I think, "Do I even want to apply there?" — and I'm sure I'm not the only one. #jobhunt
"Fun work environment" <- Our CEO or loves talking at the staff during our monthly in-office afternoon tea. You better have a damned good excuse not to attend the "fun"!
"Tasks include report writing" <- The CEO is too dumb to find the sales figures in our CRM system. You'll need to regularly, manually copy and paste them into a pretty PowerPoint slide deck that he'll probably never look at.
"Multitasking" <- We'll make you do the work of three people.
"Fast-paced" "tight deadlines" <- We overload you with tasks with unreasonable deadlines. There's no way you can get this project completed and signed off by everyone before the end of the week. We'll expect you to have it done by the end of the hour.
"Managing offsite teams" <- We outsourced our business processes overseas. You'll have to clean up the mess.
"Staying on top of market trends" <- Our CEO looks at the ways other companies in our industry enshittify their products or gouge their customers and says "let's do that too"!
"Agile work environment" <- You'll be micromanaged using daily standup meetings, JIRA, and kanban boards.
"Engaging with consultants" <- The CEO is being paid a five-figure salary to play Solitaire on his PC. Actual management decisions have been outsourced to KPMG. You have to deal with them.
"Some manual data entry" <- All the data is already in our core business systems. Unfortunately, management decided it was too expensive to pay for a Zappier integration to move it into our e-commerce platform, or for enough IT staff to set it up. So you'll need to input it manually, or else everything breaks. We'll hold you personally accountable for any errors.
"Supporting legacy applications" <- Our critical core business systems were originally written for a VAX machine and a Z80 system running CP/M. The people who wrote them are long dead. There's 40 years of cruft code. None of it was documented. They somehow sort of interface with the obsolete SAP and Oracle systems we picked up through a long-forgotten merger.
Data integration? Well, Anne from admin uses a Visual Basic front end to manually download a spreadsheet, which she then uploads into a Salesforce system that some of our departments switched over to during a failed IT transformation project 10 years ago.
Oh, and some of our backups are on Bernoulli disks in the cupboard. If by chance you see a working OS/2 machine pop up on eBay, make sure you bid for it.
Oh, and if there's any downtime, your job's on the line.
🏝️ US Tech Cannot Comprehend the Digital Nomad Way of Life - The New Stack
「 digital nomads are NOT “working” in another country, they’re “visiting” another country while “remote working”. Not using the words “visiting” or “remote” when conducting legal inquiries is often the difference between legal or illegal 」
I realized something today. I think HR departments exist to pretend to offer the same protections to employees as a union would. That is, HR's job is to give the impression you don't need a union while of course not providing the actual protections of one.
3 things we need to stop doing in recruiting and talent acquisition. Part 2: Interview Questions that put some people at a disadvantage
Let's all take a step towards making talent acquisition more equitable for everyone and stop using situational interview questions. These questions can disadvantage people with cognitive differences, and we need to find a better way!
The Clop ransomware gang issued an ultimatum with a June 14 deadline in a recent large-scale hack of payroll data
The Clop group has been blamed for the breach that saw payroll data of more than 100,000 staff stolen at firms including the BBC, British Airways and high street pharmacy Boots
“Despite these difficulties that I have encountered as national chief, as the first woman, I've never flinched.”
Assembly of First Nations National Chief RoseAnne Archibald is once more fighting to retain her position as head the national organization.
The AFN is holding a Special Chiefs Assembly June 28 where a recommendation from the AFN executive to remove Archibald from her position will be voted on.
"Man muss davon ausgehen, dass es in der #ARD-Programmdirektion Leute gibt, die die Dimension der Proteste nicht einschätzen können oder wollen. Anders scheint das beim #HR zu sein, der am Montag um 20.15 Uhr bei "Hessenschau Extra" 25 Minuten zeigte, "warum die #Hessen jetzt auf die Straße gehen".
... , war das Regionalfernsehen, wie es sein soll. Akteure und Betroffene, vor allem in kleineren Orten, wurden in den Mittelpunkt gestellt. - @altpapier#NoAfDhttps://www.mdr.de/altpapier/das-altpapier-3516.html
“This is a guide for recruiters, managers and HR professionals who want to better understand how to interview, hire and manage Autistic individuals. A lot of Autistic needs tend to run counter to established paradigms of professionalism, and a lot of work environments can end up being hostile to Autistic sensory experiences.”
Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe, also a talented photographer, is selling affordable prints he took of legendary Bad Brains singer, H.R., to help his friend out with medical expenses related to an ongoing condition ("SUNCT headaches, similar to cluster headaches, also known as 'suicide syndrome'). According to Blythe's IG: "To purchase a print, go HR’s IG page @therealofficialhr and click the link in the bio. That will take you to his online store." Photo of H.R. by D. Randall Blythe. #BadBrains#HR#Punk#Icons#Heroes#Helping
Want to know how the #US#military helped to undermine Americans' feeling that no health insurance/ruinous costs, zero paid vacation time, zero maternity leave are God given freedoms?
I worked in #HR at one of the outposts of the #empire. One of our jobs was to familiarize US mil and civilian supervisors with the labor laws of the host country.
The effects on 20-something junior US personnel from some backwater state were nothing but stunning.