Is there anyone that found the original job postings to the list
actually MORE distracting and inconveniencing than the incessant
discussion of what to do about them?
Jonathan
On 5/29/14 7:44 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
> THIS IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE AGREED TO
> On May 29, 2014 7:38 AM, "Andreas Orphanides" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> YAY FULL JOB POSTINGS
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:40 PM, BWS Johnson <[log in to unmask]
>>> wrote:
>>
>>> Research Analyst I
>>> Royt's Treehouse
>>>
>>> The prestigious Tennant's Treehouse is accepting applications for the
>>> position of Research Analyst I for the Juniper Club Library. A
>>> collaborative position in nature, the Research Analyst I will indenture
>>> themselves to the library duhrector artisanally collecting redundant data
>>> via Diebold-O-Tron. The Research Analyst I will be abused at any given
>>> opportunity, be paid only in hard liquor, maintain all digital object
>>> collections, regardless of relevance or irrelevance of said collection
>> and
>>> shepherd digital humanities projects, whatevertheheckthoseare.
>>>
>>>
>>> The successful candidate will have 17 years experience in Koha despite
>>> this being an entry level position that only freshly minted graduates may
>>> apply to and that proficiency not possibly existing in this reality,
>>> archiving meaningless discussion threads, ragging on royt at any given
>>> opportunity, and collating mimeographs since we forgot to take this out
>> of
>>> our job description sometime when MARC was merely a glimmer in a data
>>> nerd's eye. None of these skills relate in the slightest to counting
>> votes,
>>> but that's what HR told us, and ours is not to reason why.
>>>
>>> We will not tell you where Royt's Treehouse is located since you are
>> meant
>>> to already know. As with conference, you were meant to apply for this
>> post
>>> prior to it making the rounds in your hemisphere, so if you are located
>>> outside of the continental United States, too damn bad.
>>>
>>> For further information, feel free to contact [log in to unmask]
>> ,
>>> where your email will fester in a pile since your résumé will be thrown
>> out
>>> for having a funny name or not matching spurious keywords.
>>>
>>> All applicants are REQUIRED to have a beating a dead horse Code{4}Lib
>>> t-shirt.
>>>
>>
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