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Ads for 5 job roles bundled into one. Please stop it.

My current job sucks ass and I've been looking for a new one, but it seems like almost all of the ads for comparable positions are looking to fill multiple job roles with one person. Just yesterday I saw one for a receptionist/janitor/accountant/dispatcher/manager. THESE ARE 5 DIFFERENT JOBS. If you want someone to answer phones and email, get/sort mail, do basic data entry, and call customers to confirm things, that is a receptionist. If you want someone to dispatch technicians and be the primary point of contact for customers to schedule things, that is a dispatcher. If you want someone to generate/receive invoices, call customers about collections, and track income, that is an accountant or accounts manager. If you want someone to take out the trash, dust, vacuum, mop, and scrub toilets, that's a janitor. If you want someone to tell people what to do and hold them accountable, that's…


My current job sucks ass and I've been looking for a new one, but it seems like almost all of the ads for comparable positions are looking to fill multiple job roles with one person.

Just yesterday I saw one for a receptionist/janitor/accountant/dispatcher/manager. THESE ARE 5 DIFFERENT JOBS. If you want someone to answer phones and email, get/sort mail, do basic data entry, and call customers to confirm things, that is a receptionist. If you want someone to dispatch technicians and be the primary point of contact for customers to schedule things, that is a dispatcher. If you want someone to generate/receive invoices, call customers about collections, and track income, that is an accountant or accounts manager. If you want someone to take out the trash, dust, vacuum, mop, and scrub toilets, that's a janitor. If you want someone to tell people what to do and hold them accountable, that's a manager. Even the ridiculously incompetent company I work for now has all of those as separate jobs.

To ask for all of those duties out of one person is absolutely ridiculous, but it seems like every job listing for an entry level office position is like that. Oh, but you'd better bet they don't PAY 5x wage for doing 5 jobs at once!

Some other fun highlights from that job ad:

” If you are looking for a job with well-defined job responsibilities or processes that are already in place, this isn’t it.

“If you are performing this job correctly, you may not have many friends in the office. You need to be okay with that.”

“Do any of the following phrases describe you? You don’t like changing jobs. You don't like small talk.. You can spell. You like to correct others' spelling. You can pretend to be nice on the phone. You like working alone (you will work alone a lot). You are capable of confronting people. You like telling people what to do and wish you could do it more often.”

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