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Third level education to pack boxes

  • 12-11-2014 11:03pm
    #1
    spongebob89
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 565 ✭✭✭


    Check out the Materials Handler job spec currently on indeedjobs. Ie

    Third level education preferred to pack cds and
    To undertake any task deemed nessecerry so if the manager wants me to sweep the floor they would prefer someone with a DEGREE for that hahah i had to email them my opinion and they want 5 years experience of packing cds LMFAO

    Ugggghhhh I shudder to think of them places!


Comments

  • #2
    Cookie_Monster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,537 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    0.5 years and a bit of reading ability obviously


  • #3
    Galwayguy35
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,904 ✭✭✭✭Galwayguy35


    Don't be a snob, it's honest work.


  • #4
    Kevin McCloud
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,797 ✭✭✭Kevin McCloud


    Who listens to cds anymore


  • #5
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    Cookie_Monster wrote: »
    0.5 years and a bit of reading ability obviously

    In fairness though "Min Experience: .5 years" is a pretty stupid way to write it and would be easily mistaken for 5 years.


  • #6
    El Weirdo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,647 ✭✭✭✭El Weirdo


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    In fairness though "Min Experience: .5 years" is a pretty stupid way to write it and would be easily taken at 5 years.
    Yes, by someone who definitely didn't have a degree.


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  • #7
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    In fairness though "Min Experience: .5 years" is a pretty stupid way to write it and would be easily taken at 5 years on that page.

    Perhaps that's why they're looking for someone with a third level education given the general level of reading comprehension. Could you imagine is you opened your UB40 CD only to find a U2 album!


  • #8
    Mint Aero
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭Mint Aero


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    In fairness though "Min Experience: .5 years" is a pretty stupid way to write it and would be easily mistaken for 5 years.

    Ah excellent I see you have the 0.5yrs experience I require

    Yeps :)

    Why only 0.5yrs? what happened?

    I gotz fired


    Ah, I see, you're hired.


  • #9
    Awkward Badger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Awkward Badger


    MarkAnthony wrote: »
    Perhaps that's why they're looking for someone with a third level education given the general level of reading comprehension. Could you imagine is you opened your UB40 CD only to find a U2 album!

    What happens when they file all the 50 cent cd's under .5 Euro though ?


  • #10
    Sheldons Brain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,394 ✭✭✭Sheldons Brain


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem


  • #11
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,282 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    What happens when they file all the 50 cent cd's under .5 Euro though ?

    They get shot 9 times. :D


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  • #12
    thegreatgonzo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,623 ✭✭✭thegreatgonzo


    I packed books for a while in a warehouse and I had a degree too. It helped me get a better job soon after.


  • #13
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    Awkward Badger wrote: »
    What happens when they file all the 50 cent cd's under .5 Euro though ?

    Hopefully they'll never be found?


  • #14
    MarkAnthony
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,934 ✭✭✭MarkAnthony


    I worked for Woolworths when the factory that made the Video tapes (I know I'm old) got the labels mixed up with the softcore porn and the Postman Pat tapes - fun times.


  • #15
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    How long until third level institutions are overing a 3 yr degree in box packing.


  • #16
    ArseBurger
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 647 ✭✭✭ArseBurger


    spongebob89 wrote: »

    Ugggghhhh I shudder to think of them places!

    I'd say you're ok. They probably require a working knowledge of grammar too.


  • #17
    K4t
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,362 ✭✭✭K4t


    Galwayguy35 wrote: »
    Don't be a snob, it's honest work.
    It's not snobbery to suggest that preferring a 3rd level education for the job specified is ridiculous.

    Your accusations of snobbery are better reserved for whomever created that job spec.


  • #18
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,705 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    K4t wrote: »
    It's not snobbery to suggest that preferring a 3rd level education for the job specified is ridiculous.

    Your accusations of snobbery are better reserved for whomever created that job spec.

    who created


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