I Wish Design Job Descriptions Were More Honest Rather than Doublespeak 🤕
Unicorn of all trades, Master of some —but we will fire you when you don’t become the one.
You — just adding this simple suffix doesn’t really make it personal.
We read job descriptions all the time abusing the word you all the time.
You’re going to do X in Y time by being rewarded Z. But You’re also going to be battered like a pig if things go south. Or worse fired for being an insubordinate prick.
You have to follow what you’re told. However, you will have ownership of what you do. We will give you an illusionary sense of entitlement so that we can reel you in, and keep you in the penthouse as long as we can.
Aren’t you tired of it all?
Linkedin job doomscrolling is a real thing. It’s a mystery nobody’s talking about it. It’s clearly becoming an epidemic. Especially with the flood of entry-level jobs with senior-level skills and C leadership-level experience.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. However, the latter is real as well.
We’re at the horizon of The Great Beleaguering.
The 2022 job market is the one place where this phenomenon is…
