At least with this job, you know exactly what kind of misery you’re signing up for if you decide to “enquire within.” (If only all bosses let their true characters shine through so obviously at this stage of the game.)
![WANTED: Part-time sales person who won't quit after 2 months, who works hard and doesn't think she's doing me a favour by working here, who can take a joke and won't cry everyday [sic] on the floor.](http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6032/6258162817_fcb364f927.jpg "WANTED: Part-time sales person who won't quit after 2 months, who works hard and doesn't think she's doing me a favour by working here, who can take a joke and won't cry everyday [sic] on the floor.")
related: My sadistic dungeon-master won’t let me call in sick
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#1
BLAHBLAHBLAHBLAHBLAH
Females only need apply?
Oct 18, 2011 at 11:22 pm rating: 10
#2
bluefish
Well, maybe he/she should have put Princesses needs not apply!
Oct 18, 2011 at 11:40 pm rating: 5
#3
Emma
“Who can take a joke” = will let me be an ass
Oct 18, 2011 at 11:42 pm rating: 125
#4
Elizabeth
That doesn’t even sound like they’re looking for a masochist. They’re just looking for somebody who actually needs to work for a living & doesn’t expect their workplace and hours to be arranged based on their desires. The “can take a joke” line sounds skeevy, absolutely, but people who cry more than very rarely at work (unless they work in a cancer ward or something) should just quit or grow up.
Oct 18, 2011 at 11:47 pm rating: 15
#5
Ed.D.
Enquire? Maybe they’re from across the pond…http://www.dailywritingtips.com/inquire-vs-enquire/
Oct 18, 2011 at 11:57 pm rating: 1
#6
Palomon
Notice the pasted on “Part” in “Part Time.” Makes me think the writer figured, at the last moment, “Y’know, there all pains in the ass, so let’s only keep ‘em around a few hours a day.”
Oct 19, 2011 at 12:04 am rating: 13
#7
jadefirefly
My place of employment recently had one of those girls transfer in, who acted like she was doing us a favor by working there.
The reality was that we did her a favor by finding a way for her to keep her job. Elsewise she’d have been canned.
Course, she got canned anyway. That’s what happens when you don’t actually show up for work.
Oct 19, 2011 at 12:29 am rating: 5
#8
Earl Hamsher
In the old days (that I have read about and seen on tv) companies would entice you to work for them by giving benefits, perks, and a living wage. In modern times most companies experiment to see how badly they can treat you, how little they can get away with paying you, and forget about health insurance. I have no patience for babies either but I also don’t enjoy being treated like a rented mule.
Oct 19, 2011 at 1:36 am rating: 126
#9
Canthz_B
Sure, he thought he’d save a little money by hiring his wife, but he never dreamed she’d expect more respect in the workplace than she receives at home.
Oct 19, 2011 at 2:34 am rating: 41
#10
Oh Geeee
Clearly something strange going on… Retail tends to be high turnover anyway so to strike out at someone, potentially a part-timer no less, who was there two months? If they were THAT bad, why the apparent bitterness at their leaving? Either way, the only thing worse than whiney staff is unprofessional supervisors, tone at the top and all. This guy (or girl) sounds like an ass.
Oct 19, 2011 at 5:16 am rating: 27
#11
Woman
Needed: Young female who won’t quit after two weeks of working for slave wages, with no self esteem and doesn’t mind a sexist a**hole manager.
Oct 19, 2011 at 5:24 am rating: 63
#12
Flight_of_ideas
The person who wrote this sign seems like a total jerk. Definitely seems like something shady going on. Can’t blame the former employee for not taking his jokes and quitting after 2 months. But the sign is hysterical! (not that it would entice me to apply)
Oct 19, 2011 at 5:31 am rating: 5
#13
Nunavut Guy
It looks to me like he want’s to hire someone who shoots more than a 72.Maybe his last employee consistently thrashed him on the course.
Oct 19, 2011 at 6:48 am rating: 1
#14
Jonah
You mean “every day”.
Oct 19, 2011 at 7:25 am rating: 1
#15
emcd
Newt Gingrich has a campaign headquarters in the UK? Sign me up!!
Oct 19, 2011 at 10:05 am rating: 6
#16
rainbow brite's boyfriend
The manager could try conducting interviews and checking references before hiring staff that are lazy and unreliable. Alternatively, he (or she) can be a manager who trains employees well and encourages them to work hard. But that would mean an end to passive-aggressive bitterness.
Oct 19, 2011 at 10:19 am rating: 12
#17
AB745
You know, I’ve checked all of the windows and for the life of me I can’t figure out where my boss hung that sign.
Oct 19, 2011 at 10:47 am rating: 42
#18
Katie
My take is that the boss is a douche for actually putting that in a window, but I’m coming off a job where the management actually treated most of the hourly employees WELL (better than their managers, to be honest) and I still would have loved to put this sign up most days.
Of course it’s hard in food service, because based on the fact that it’s (mostly) unskilled labor most of the applicants suck, but it’s still unprofessional when adult women whine at you every 2 days about changing their schedules.
Oct 19, 2011 at 12:28 pm rating: 4
#19
ansco
About time a job that is just right for me. NOT. Sounds like several bosses or managers I’ve worked for in the past. I used to have this one that would grab my ass every time she got the chance. Mind you she was a amazon and a half so I just put up with it for fear that she would or could really put a hurting on me. I eventually was transferred and she gave the best recommendation which got me a much better position. She said I could handle anything, go figure.
Oct 19, 2011 at 1:17 pm rating: 5
#20
Wilma Jo
I work with the public on a daily basis and I too have teared up because someone was nice to me. It’s sad how many people are assholes now. I’ve been working in public service for 25 years and things have sure changed since I started. People have no respect for one another anymore. I am especially nice to people who serve me in any capacity because of how I have been disrespected myself.
Oct 20, 2011 at 5:55 am rating: 13
#21
bookworm
And this new part-time person HAS to be female? This boss is setting the stage for someone to receive a nice payday off of him. Oh wait, this isn’t the U.S.
Oct 20, 2011 at 8:35 am rating: 3
#22
Chesire Cat
I have a feeling I know this guy. There was a guy in our city who owned a shaved ice place. He got in trouble for spanking his young female employees when they made mistakes in the workplace. Yeah he got sued and the business got shut down. Who saw that coming?! The funny part is the girls let him spank them at first just because they knew as soon as it was over with they were going to sue the hell out of him.
Oct 22, 2011 at 8:29 am rating: 2
#23
Brian H
Are there some bad bosses, of course there are. As a business owner what I take away from this is a manager exhausted from dealing with drama queens. You just want someone who comes in on time does their job well=ish and goes home.
I had a guy recently that I hired who was a good guy it seemed but didn’t like the first place I had him working, so I got him a more fitting assignment. Then one week I needed him to cover another location for two days that would have reduced his hours but I told him I’d cover that. He agreed and then the day before he was going to work the other location he quit on me with no notice. It really put me in a bind. Four weeks later he emailed me asking for his job back, he didn’t realize how bad the job market was and in retrospect realized I had bent over backward to work with him. Needless to say he wasn’t rehired.
Oct 23, 2011 at 8:54 pm rating: 1
#24
FeRD
The misogyny is one thing, but I’m far more offended by the signposter’s use of awful Avant Garde for the font!
Oct 24, 2011 at 9:19 am rating: 1
#25
JS
It’s great when potential employers broadcast they’re crazy so you don’t have to bother dealing with them.
Oct 24, 2011 at 5:15 pm rating: 5
#26
Tours in Venice
Don’t know if this says more about the employer or the previous employ.
Nov 11, 2011 at 2:32 pm rating: 0
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