To the secretary for Very Important Man at Very Important Company -
I understand that Very Important Man does not take phone calls, and you are assuring me that he checks his email constantly, but he has not responded to any of the emails we have sent him, and if he does not respond very soon (like, in the next 15 minutes) his Very Important Project will not be sent out on time. So while getting back to us on this is, of course, optional, it would certainly make my life, and yours, and his much easier if he did.
– One grumpy liaison
Monthly Archives: March 2010
You can’t be both at once you know…
Desktop Publishing (Teterboro,NJ) – Industrial Distributor of machine shop supplies is seeking a full time, entry level desktop operator
Dumb, but not snark worthy. (Everyone is advertising for “entry level” openings lately ’cause no one wants to pay for experienced workers.) However, it often leads to…
to work on catalog design, sales brochures etc.
Unless they’re coming in as someone’s assistant, this is not entry level work. Well, not if you don’t want the work to suck. And I say this having been hired fresh out of school to *do* jobs like this, and I did not know my ass from a hole in the wall. I was unhappy, my employers were unhappy… it was a bad idea all all around.
Applicants must have extensive knowledge of Photoshop, Pagemaker, Indesign, Adobe Acrobat and in preparing files for printing.
“Extensive knowledge” does not dovetail with “entry level”. No, really. Once again, the words do not mean what you think they mean.