Unemployed offered money to watch grass grow Those among you who believe it's your human right to be paid to "read, tweet, surf the internet, check your email and sunbathe" should get your lazy arses into this job, which is offering hard cash to someone to do just that. The Husqvarna Automatic Lawnmower Supervisor job advert For those of you not au fait with the …
What I am puzzled about is why they are descriminating on the basis of age? It is not exactly as if an OAP or a 16 year old could not do the job while reading the newspaper or browsing their phone/tablet! Going to have to do better than that if you don't want the EU regs breathing down your neck! Being currently unemployed/low earner would be a better discriminator...
"What I am puzzled about is why they are descriminating on the basis of age?"
It's always been a common thing in Spain, same as gender discrimination. I'd bet this ad was not posted by Husqvarna (sp?) directly but by a local PR/marketing company. Even though the laws have been updated, not many locals have caught up with the times in the job discrimination front.
Not stereotyping the Spaniards btw, just speaking from intimate(!) knowledge.
>Not stereotyping the Spaniards btw, just speaking from intimate(!) knowledge
I'll confirm that. I've always got my jobs by word of mouth so I've not had to deal with the age thing directly however when skimming the job site offers to see the state of things most are looking for someone still in nappies with 20 years experience of something that hasn't been released yet
No, it's not age discrimination, it's simply preselection: They need someone willing to use FarceBook, i.e. that person will definitely not be older than 35. They need someone who's got a basic grasp of the language, i.e. a person over 25*.
(*assuming education in Spain is not much better than over here)
Whoa there, you seem to suggest that becoming 25 years old suddenly means that someone magically becomes better at language skills...
In my experience, this is certainly not the case. I have worked with many individuals 25+, 30+, 50+; some of them are professors and world-leading in their field. Very few of them can write effectively in their primary language.
Maybe it's just me, but doesn't $3K seem a lot to spend on a lawnmower? You can easily get a bloke to do it for twenty quid (say thirty dollars). That gets you 100 lawn-mows for the same price, which I suspect is more than you'd get out of the robot lawnmower before something important went wrong with it.
What they are being hired for is to watch a new lawnmower cut grass with little or no user interaction. This is not as strange as it sounds.Many companies hire people to do nothing but test their products. I work near a local Husqvarna corp headquarters and sometimes have to go there for business. One thing I see is them hiring local kids to do nothing but ride lawn mowers around in a circle all day. After so many hundreds of hours, they check to see what is worn out, how things are holding up. Go to any producer of outdoor products and you will find the same thing. It's better than letting people buy products and use them as testers (Iphone anyone?)
It's really not all that unusual, hell companies hire people to sit on their @$$ and watch computers all day, I think it's called "IT", and they don't even get any sun! Zing!!!
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