{"id":776,"date":"2009-11-02T09:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T08:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pouringbeans.com\/?p=776"},"modified":"2009-11-02T09:39:54","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T08:39:54","slug":"job-digest-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"Job Digest Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to November!<\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m a pretty open-minded individual, except when it comes to music of course. Once I even took off my shoes to scratch my foot. Twice I opened a man-hole to let bandit rats escape into the sewers. I was greeted with a curious sight this morning. I opened the\u00a0Metro\u00a0(the paper, not the actual Metro, although I did really because I pressed the buttom so I could get on the damn thing), read through all the tat and got to the back pages. Bouncing about on page 48 was some adverts for jobs and O&#8217;Briens Irish Sandwich Bar are advertising for two distinct roles. They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 x Assistant Accountants<\/li>\n<li>2 x Accounts Assistants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Does anyone else get the impression someone is taking the piss? Reading the specifications it is clear why they are different and all that but it just looks wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s like in the Simpsons where Homer is unemployed and there&#8217;s a job for a Supervising Technician. &#8220;I&#8217;m not a Supervising Technician, I&#8217;m a Technical Supervisor.&#8221; Titles don&#8217;t mean anything anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Still, if you could be an Assistant Accountant or an Accounts Assistant which one would you be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to November! Now I&#8217;m a pretty open-minded individual, except when it comes to music of course. Once I even took off my shoes to scratch my foot. Twice I opened a man-hole to let bandit rats escape into the sewers. I was greeted with a curious sight this morning. I opened the\u00a0Metro\u00a0(the paper, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,43,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bedtime-stories","category-look-at-this","category-think-about-it","category-tragic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pouringbeans.com\/archive\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}