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“Our employees work an average 40 hour week”
Really? They work some weeks over 40 hours and other weeks below 40 hours? Because that’s what “average” means. Or did you mean they work a minimum 40 hour week?
I actually asked a company this once and got no response.
We’re like a family may also = nepotism.
Nepotism is present in virtually every company, because it’s usually cheaper and more reliable than hiring a random person. Depending on the position, the candidate may not even need to be qualified at all. So you just get your partner’s cousin, who they are in constant contact with. They will do their best, because it’s in their own best interest + if they fuck up, it’ll be family drama for the next 3 years.
I’d say 90% of all job offers require either no specialized skills, or skills that can be easily learned in the first 3 months of the job. So it makes perfect sense to get a reliable family member, who then you can train and have an overall better employee, who is likely to stay at the company for longer. Furthermore, all the money you pay them stays in the family, so it’s kind of like you haven’t given anything away.
Now I’m wondering what a green flag job ad looks like.
Here’s the job.
We pay industry rates.
Clock out at 5.
Wash your hands after you pee.I saw one great-looking job posting, it even listed all the professional skills I happen to have. Then I saw the company name: Palantir. GOD DAMN IT.
Eh, some people like at least a few of those things. My favorite jobs have been at startups where work-life balance was not a priority, but having a critical role in a small group of people working a lot to create something that you really care about is pretty great. (I do still expect either a good salary or equity.)
Are you creating something that you yourself or the other workers collectively own? Like, not just options, because that’s another way to get fucked over later when the company gets sold for pennies on the dollar.
Because when my company got bought out by Microsoft about four years of my work got thrown in the trashcan. Not really fun spending four years working on something that gets shelved because Microsoft decided it would be better to prevent our product from going to market than be our customer.
That shit is only meaningful if you are actually making something you have control over. Don’t kill yourself in a job that will drop you to do more stock buybacks. Jobs are for collecting a paycheck. That’s all you’re ever “creating” for yourself.
Remember that. You have no say in whether the product of your labor gets used or thrown in the trash for no reason. In most cases, you are making something that will be owned as a commodity by someone else that doesn’t even know you exist. Hell, they likely don’t even know the thing you’re making exists.
Put in as much as you’re willing to put in to keep the paycheck coming. Nothing more.
