Who makes the coffee?
Who makes the coffee in your office?
You probably make your own, I’m guessing. If you’ve got visitors to the office, you’ll either do it for them or have a receptionist who takes care of it.
I just got thinking about this because Vinny, one of our new hires at Target Recruitment, got spammed by Adecco twice on Friday.
Two text messages in one day, both inviting him to apply for a job as an “office junior” (no further clues) at two different companies, tasks including “photocopying, answering the phone and making coffee for your colleagues.”
I’m hoping that this is the result of an under-imaginative consultant at Adecco drafting a sloppy job spec. Even the hardest-pressed receptionist or stressed secretary is surely relieved the task of making coffee for their colleagues? Or at least on a non-reciprocal basis? And to have it as a formal part of your job description?
But what’s more worrying is the indiscriminate spam. Vinny’s asked to not receive any more job alerts. Twice.
And “making coffee” doesn’t figure in his CV.
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