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Small commercial construction company looking for a young person to grow with the company. This person will be relied upon to get the answers right, not just throw together a set of books. Accounting is the dashboard of our company. Without accurate and timely feedback, we can't make good decisions. If you can't unravel a puzzle and put it in a format that can be used, you aren't the right person. We expect our employees to perform without being watched, so we shouldn't have to worry about walking past your computer and seeing facebook open. The construction industry is tough enough to have to worry about slackers. If you want to be challenged and excited to come to work everyday, we are the right place.
The position starts at $20 per hour with benefits.
Please submit a resume. Convince us why you are the right person for this job
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I saw this on Craigslist this morning in Nashville, it seems to me that discriminating based soley on the basis of age is questionable.
Of course, the idiot posted it in the wrong area. I am also humored by the posters attitude in trying to attract employees with the "you slacker" attitude up front.
Why not have some older people apply and see what happens, just for fun. I am 46 and would love to apply there. I have no plans on leaving my job but still it would be fun to push the age issue.
If they're complaining about people doing Facebook at work, maybe they shouldn't be so eager to hire young people. They should use words like "entry level" but I guess employers these days think "entry level" means "two to three years of experience."
Small commercial construction company looking for a young person to grow with the company. This person will be relied upon to get the answers right, not just throw together a set of books. Accounting is the dashboard of our company. Without accurate and timely feedback, we can't make good decisions. If you can't unravel a puzzle and put it in a format that can be used, you aren't the right person. We expect our employees to perform without being watched, so we shouldn't have to worry about walking past your computer and seeing facebook open. The construction industry is tough enough to have to worry about slackers. If you want to be challenged and excited to come to work everyday, we are the right place.
The position starts at $20 per hour with benefits.
Please submit a resume. Convince us why you are the right person for this job
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I saw this on Craigslist this morning in Nashville, it seems to me that discriminating based soley on the basis of age is questionable.
Of course, the idiot posted it in the wrong area. I am also humored by the posters attitude in trying to attract employees with the "you slacker" attitude up front.
What a poorly written ad. There is no job description and no mention of the experience required for the $20 an hour.
And it sounds like they already had a problem with a twenty something slacker spending time on Facebook and goofing off.
So by all means risk repeating the same behavior by limiting who you can hire, and yes it does sound illegal.
Who cares. Young people have a terribly uphill battle finding anything that pays reasonable in this country. At least older folks had a chance to actually SAVE money. My dad is 55 and doesn't care if he never works again. He saved a lot of his earnings, invested, and was unaffected by this recession, other than loosing his job. Young people never even had the chance, and who knows if we ever will.
Just based on the way the ad is written I wouldn't want to work there. It comes across as "you should be so lucky to work for us you poor fool. We will stomp your face in the mud as you deserve for being such a peasant."
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