Job ad asks for 'detrimental' sysadmin Honesty in job ads is rarity. When employers talk of "exciting admin management opportunities", they really mean: paper-pushing drones wanted. We all know that "disruptive upstarts" translates as chaotic hipsters making it up as they go along; and "challenging role for the right person" means we will pay you to take crap. So …
"the term used by Freud is Parapraxis"
Ah yes, when you mean to say one thing, but actually say amother.
I have recent experience of this. I was at the train station getting a ticket home, and instead of saying "Can I have a ticket to Ritzville please?", it came out "Can I have a ricket to Titzville please?", which got me a very dark look from the girl behind the counter.
The guy behind me in the queue tapped me on the shoulder and said "You won't believe this, exactly the same thing happened to me the other day. I was sitting at the kitchen table having breakfast with my wife, and what I meant to say was 'Can you pass the salt please dear?', but what actually came out was 'You've ruined my life you fat ugly bitch...'"
<Coughs> Mine's the one with the very old dodgy joke book in the pocket...
"I believe that typing "detrimental" instead of "instrumental" is rather a large chance to put down as a typo."
A common typo.
Always look out for 'Ability to manage changing priorities' in adverts. This is always a big red flashing light. In my experience, it means either 'we change our minds every five minutes' or ' every manager has a different idea of what is most important' or 'expect to get messed about on a daily basis'.
it's not linguine skills they are going for in job ads, it's to pile in as much bullshit phrasing as possible. Potential applicants feel they have to follow this in their CVs until neither applicant or recruitment can properly parse each others work, or their own it seems in this case as this was not spotted at whatever passes for proofreading these days.
The whole thing will collapse under the weight of it's own idiot pretension, but probably not until I'm either dead or retired unfortunately.
"... it's to pile in as much bullshit phrasing as possible."
Precisely, the telling part is when one is speaking with HR and there is no real, concrete (or even general) duties description.
Several times, with the hiring manager and HR, right in the middle of the interview and nothing but buzzwords were sent my way, I finally gave up and walked out.
Leaving one of my previous employer's rejected security androids in the elevator, as a parting gift.
Alien8n - from the sounds of that ad, that would involve the successful applicant sorting themselves out.
Systems Administrator/Support Engineer = you're doing everything from patching cables to deleting the CEOs pictures of his mistress on his phone before the wife sees it in his iCloud, to rebuilding the core network infrastructure that hasn't been touched in a decade, is wholly undocumented and no-one has the login details for the switches and routers....
Anon, because I've been there, done it, and I'm never doing it again.
"an entirely truthful reference"
Like this one you mean?
To whom it may concern,
I am pleased to say that X is a former colleague of mine. X could never do enough work whilst at Acme Co and I can assure you that no person would be better for the job. You will most fortunate to get X to work for you and I can recommend him with no qualifications whatsoever.
All in all I cannot say enough good things about X or recommend him too highly, and I would urge you to waste no time in making this candidate an offer of employment.
Yours etc,
The next line reads: "The IT support team are detrimental to operations of the business and the System Administrator/Support Engineer will liaise with all departments of the business up to director level.”
I'm sure there will be plenty of users around the world that will say that IT support are detrimental to the business. Where in actual fact it's users that are detrimental to IT support.
"the System Administrator/Support Engineer will liaise with all departments of the business up to director level.”
The university educated sysadmin will spend most of his time showing the chief director how to format and printout a spreadsheet.
Detrimental to operations and liaising with upper management, sounds an awful lot like my supervisor. I have never worked with anyone before who is so willing to stab everyone around him in the back (including the boss, when he's not within earshot), nor who exemplifies the German phrase "Arschkriecher" so well (brownnoser is just not a strong enough term). Anyone have a cattle prod and shipping crate I could borrow? Oh, and did I mention he knows bugger all about IT?
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