I am employed full time and I'm looking to change roles to something that is less stressful than my current role. If you read the news anywhere, we are being told there are too many jobs and not enough people to fill those roles.
One of my gripes with the above statement, is that job advertising is so disingenuous, its laughable. I am looking for a role that is fully remote. There are 2 reasons why I have given up using my countries most popular website for job searches. Firstly, 90% of the time you will find “We expect you to come into the office 3 times a week :-)” or “this is not a fully remote role” somewhere in the ad. Secondly, you find a suitable role listed as WFH, they have one of the above messages in the ad, but fuck it, the job looks good, only to find out that the office is a 6-hour flight from your nearest airport. Guess I'll go fuck myself.
It's not just that one website; all of the job search websites are plagued with this fucking bullshit.
If your job isn't fully remote, why are you on the work from home search? If you can't honestly advertise the role, why the hell would I believe anything else you say? Why would I apply to work for you, when you can't be honest? Why should I or anyone else be truthful on their CV or at the interview?
I don't want to go into the office, this is why I am searching WFH roles. I don't want a 4 hour round trip, travelling to and from the CBD, I live rurally. I get that some roles require on-site training, that's no problem, I can suck it up and do that for the training period but I'm not interested afterwards. I don't fucking care about your office culture and I definitely don't care about making meaningless friends in the office. The boomer from accounting isn't going to join me on for a weekend bender and I sure as fuck don't care about their kids. Work sucks. I just want to sit down, log in, work for 8 hours, log off and go about my life.
If you're advertising a role that isn't fully work from home, list it in the location of the role and push partly WFH as a perk. Whilst I'm on the topic of perks, a table tennis table and bean bags aren't fucking perks that I (or anyone else) give a shit about, especially since you are going to bury me under a mountain of work and basically chain me to my desk.
Yours in rage and despair,
Grognak93