Roast My Job Offer
Disclaimer: I&#x27;m making a lot of assumptions and you&#x27;re seeing a lot of my personality here and naturally you don&#x27;t have to agree with any of it. That&#x27;s why I say: I am just one feedback point. What I&#x27;m good at is being honest. So here it is.<p>Also, I have no clue what would be a good job posting.<p>My thoughts:<p>Who are you looking for? If you&#x27;re looking for someone that wants to extend their personal life into their working life that has a particular personality, then this job ad seems quite good for that. I bet you are that way. I suppose you want more people like you, nothing good&#x2F;bad about that, just my thoughts (it can be good&#x2F;bad depending on circumstances).<p>Also, I&#x27;m not judging, I don&#x27;t know enough to make any accurate assessment about whether that&#x27;s good or bad. I just look at the market dynamics that I can glean from the job market and this job ad.<p>It also reads very American as work-life balance seems to be a bit more blended and&#x2F;or bad.<p>Now let&#x27;s personalize it to me, since I don&#x27;t know enough about anything else. I&#x27;m not a UI designer but I happen to be interested in it. I&#x27;d never apply to your company (unless the salary is twice as much as I make now or if I&#x27;d be in a desperate position), here is why:<p>This job ad also makes me feel that you guys have no clue about the power balance between you and an employee.<p>Here is how that power balance can look like:<p>Let me tell you that getting fired sucks (I sort of have experience with it). Why does it suck? In my case, because I didn&#x27;t don&#x27;t know if I&#x27;d be okay in the future. It took me 18 months to find a job (with a master in CS even) and after 7 months was not extended. I was down on my last dime after searching for 6 months again. What would I need to do? To steal? I don&#x27;t know. But I&#x27;m not going down without a fight. Welfare is a thing in my country but I&#x27;ve seen how it gets distributed and I know how raw things can get based on what I&#x27;ve seen with others. I&#x27;m not going to be a passive homeless person (I&#x27;d rather not exist). Luckily for me, I got a job again after 6 months so nothing like this came to fruition and I&#x27;m currently financially in amazing shape. It&#x27;ll be hard for me to ever get homeless.<p>In any case, that was my situation. Whenever I&#x27;d read a job ad where I was treated as if we&#x27;re all equal, well, we&#x27;re not. Because if you (the boss) say something fucked up, then if you don&#x27;t believe it is being fucked up and someone calls you out on it that employee is what we call in a perilous job situation and will possibly get fired by continuing that behavior. Yet, you can still be abusive without knowing it. So we&#x27;re not equal.<p>Professionalism comes down to keeping things clean. I was working for a CTO once that would play Ramstein in the whole office and we all had to listen to it. I quit that same day after hearing the 5th dick joke. I like Ramstein, but not when I need to concentrate. Their humor was on point and had great technique but also felt very offensive to women. But we&#x27;re all guys right? Well, yes, but I know many women and I like them. Ah it shouldn&#x27;t matter. Okay, so what if I joke about a family member of you dying from cancer? Oh that matters? Really? So you can be a psychopath about one thing but not the other? I call that being egocentric. But all of this is solved if you simply say: let&#x27;s keep the jokes clean and the working environment clean. Professionalism feels very sterile because of it, but it helps for a conductive and collaborative work environment because people don&#x27;t get emotionally fucked by other people their emotional quirks or abusive tendencies.<p>And don&#x27;t get me wrong, you can talk about your personal life, but still keep it clean. My current CTO for example said once during the standup that he had a very shitty weekend (since we always ask &quot;how was your weekend?&quot;) but he didn&#x27;t go into it and I could only imagine. I find that much better than if he&#x27;d delve into it during a standup. Yet, another person did mention his climbing trip and went into that.<p>Those are some of my thoughts. I have more but explaining my assumptions takes a lot of time to write and read.<p>I hope this helps somehow.<p>I think it&#x27;s awesome that you&#x27;re asking for feedback. Though, it can be a double edged sword. In most cases, the crowd knows better than you, but feedback becomes tricky if you actually know better than the crowd but don&#x27;t have the confidence to believe that.