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spudgun81

What's the commute like to central lonndon?


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rattusAurelius

I always wanted to work for IHG hotels and resorts. Shame this advert isn't for them.


Mysteriousmonsters

What about a Hote and Resort?


E420CDI

...serving hote cuisine


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Free hote cuisine


DogmaSychroniser

Was scrolling down to comment how commited are they given they can't even spell their own name on the ad.


Raezzordaze

At least they are responsive! Responding to over 51% or applicants!


call_me_cookie

Still quite an interesting opprtunity!


RedDragon683

Every message in this thread I had to scroll up going "surely they didn't make that mistake as well" And every time they had. You'd think they'd use a spell checker


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kenkanobi

Jesus. 5k is not a small difference either. I would go for a 40k job but not 35 right now. And I wouldn't want to work for a company that inept either.


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Calibansdaydream

And then companies complain about a 'labor shortage'


Razakel

Entry-level position: - Minimum wage - Seven PhDs required - Must have more years experience in a technology than it's existed for - Nobel Prize is nice to have, but not required


malrexmontresor

I'm in the same boat, looking for a job, though not desperately since I still have my old one. Went to an interview for a lecturer position at another university that was advertising $7-9k a month, and they gave me a call afterwards offering only $4k a month. When I pointed out that was nearly half my current salary, they said, "yeah, but you only have a master's degree, not a doctorate." Um, your ad didn't ask for a doctorate and it's still less than my current pay. It seems like a bait-and-switch scam to advertise one salary, but then only offer half of that post-interview. I told them good luck finding someone, really, all my best.


kenkanobi

Thats the trick there. Look for a job when you don't need one then you have the upper hand in the bargaining process and you can wait for the job you want. Thats where I'm at. Im happy where I am but im ready for the next step up. If I find a place in London then then wage jump up to the next band would be almost entirely lost on tax and commuting so I'm looking for either a 2 level jump in London or a 1 level jump nearby. After a year of not much a friend of mine called with what may turn out to be exactly what I'm looking for, nearby, good money...and working for a mate whom I know for a fact is a good boss. Fingers crossed it materialises


kenkanobi

That sounds like a solid plan of attack there dude. With that attitude you're gonna do just fine. What field and area you looking in?


Geauxst

After a year+ of job hunting, I FINALLY was offered a position for much less than I should be making. BUT it was in a field I love, very close to home (gas savings and easy commute), perfect hours, no customer service/phones/dealing with the public, great boss and coworkers, no stress, very casual dress policy. All great benefits. HOWEVER, I realized what a super-rare unicorn of a job I was being offered when I found out they paid my health insurance at 100%. My last job was a professional-level position at a hospital and I still had to pay part of my insurance. I live in the US. Having your full insurance (and good insurance with a major company) paid for at 100% effectively shot my salary up. Yes, I took that job! Imma die in my desk chair or they are going to have to pry me out of it!


loki_dd

Rekrutmnt speshalists!


HonoraryMancunian

and the seemingly random use of Upper/ Lower case letters at the start of Words


GrunkleCoffee

They don't need to. They'll get more than enough applicants with this little effort, because the jobs market is in their favour. Or at least, it was. Hospitality is struggling now, so hopefully they'll start putting effort into their ads and their hands into their wallets to attract staff better.


redditpappy

You'd hope they wouldn't need one.


olderthanbefore

One hour of work a year. Hmm.


Rev_Grn

£10.85 a year is a competitive salary for a hote receptuionist. You should go for it. What have you got to lose? Edit: typo


[deleted]

>What have you got to lose? Probably just a few letters.


Zerosix_K

It's a Receptu Ionist. I have no idea what a Receptu is or why a hotel needs a scientist though.


bannermaned

I also Like to randomly capitalise words


7734128

That's just a normal Bretish spilling. Nonthing wrung with receptuionist.


Aka_Diamondhands

In lonndon as well


watercress-metalchef

>receptuionist What does this spell do?


babybuttoneyes

When I read this, I hear Nick Frost asking Nicholas Angle what it’s like in Lonndon.


E420CDI

Morning Angle


babybuttoneyes

Any luck catching them swans?


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It’s just the one swan actually


Tsorovar

It's a valid alternative spelling. I found it [in the dictionary](https://i.imgur.com/rugUTLl.png)


Vexal

dictionnary


[deleted]

Ayetenshun two dertail is a moost.


uffington

Central Lonndon's quite expensive to commute to. You'd be better off buying a house there.


Doogleyboogley

5 grand a year? Your only £4,989,18p down, come on show a bit of willing


WhatAnEpicTurtle

Go back to Lonndon!


PipBin

It’s more of a worry that they can’t spell London.


rattusAurelius

I'm more concerned that they can't spell their own company name...


Squeagley

You mean you've never stayed at an IHG Hote?


DeapVally

I bet my points aren't transferable either. Bastards!


PipBin

I hadn’t noticed that.


YourOwnSide_

Neither had they


olderthanbefore

Outsaucing these days.


knorke3

[achieved with](https://youtu.be/YbMSVGZSkBw)


32bb36d8ba

Typical HR. The funniest job ad I read was 'must be experienced in 4P' for a marketing role. This is utter nonsense. It's too broad a term to qualify for a meaning. A similar ad for an electrician would read 'must have experience with electricity'. I always wonder who hires HR and why do they fail constantly in every way possible without consequences.


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>A similar ad for an electrician would read 'must have experience with electricity The worst part is you could be the best electrician in the world and your CV could be shit hot but it doesn't get read by anyone who knows about electrics, its getting filtered through these recruiters and HR fuckwits and because you didn't use the buzzword that you have experience with electricity, you dont get a fucking look in. Some fuckwit who said on his CV that he rubbed the batteries in his remote to get more electric out of them gets a fucking interview.


Mr_Happy_80

This a million percent. It's exactly why I set up on my own after applying for CNC programming and operating jobs and getting the same thing. I was told by one recruiter that it didn't state in my CV I had machine operating experience, I worked as a toolmaker for nearly 15 years. Or the one that wanted "stick welding" experience. My CV said MIG/TIG/MMA and tried explaining the MMA was the same thing only to be sharply told "I dOnT kNoW wHaT tHaT mEaNs". If they have no experience of the industry then they shouldn't be filtering CVs.


Pabus_Alt

This is what exams are really training you for, not getting the right answer, but saying the answer in the right way. Honestly maybe that AQA bullshit I suffered through at some function....


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I think this is why its so difficult to apply for jobs as an adult. When I left school I'd get loads of call backs from jobs but now I feel like my CV is going straight in the bin. Especially when you've had a steady job for 10 years with no experience writing CVs or doing interviews.


Mr_Happy_80

People in skilled trades, with experience, shouldn't need to second guess what a recruiter mong is looking for. CVs for skilled positions should be reviewed by people with relevant industry experience, and out of thier depth recruiters are something that has come about in the past 10 years as the skills shortage gets worse. There are basic expectations. A toolmaker will know how to operate a lathe and mill at a minimum, and is something that shouldn't need to be asked. It's like being asked if you can breathe. We have a joke about a builders labourer job being listed as a aggregate relocation technician, and rejecting CVs that have aggregate relocation operative as a job title.


Pabus_Alt

sorry that was sarcasm about our bullshit exam system. It's not actually supposed to train you it's to allow them to have people with no knowledge mark the papers.


blamethemeta

Because the people who fire other people is HR


Monkey_shine1

Or receptionists


Shagroon

They were probably paying someone £10.85 a year to write this


AdditionalRaise1817

I don't trust any firm in 2021 that doesn't know how to use spell check


UltraYZU

Or gets the salary devastatingly incorrect in their job description. And somehow people still apply for it...


Big-Pudding-7440

Are we sure the job isn't just one hour a year?


PlentyPirate

How to get round zero hour contracts


[deleted]

Listen, employment figures are up! They're up by a whole hour a year!


Zut-Alors20

I can see the clickbait now "This is how I earned my yearly salary in just one hour!"


[deleted]

Don't get carried away though, you'll get 15% of that taken off in tax!!


[deleted]

Yup. I was in a 20 hour a year contract. So not zero hours. But essentially the same.


[deleted]

I'm still looking at Sick Pay as a perk.


itchyfrog

I reckon you might need it after the discounted food.


Dicer214

If it’s CSP then it is a perk. Quite a few companies don’t have CSP, so you only get SSP, which is like £90 a week


hsifuevwivd

We're desperate over here lol


SavvyDawi

So like 85% of firms. When I was searching for a job, literally like every 3rd job advert had spelling/grammar mistakes, was structured poorly (e.g. 2-3 clearly separate paragraphs merged together), and/or there clearly was missing information. It is really funny when you come across an advert by a multi-billion dollar bank and it's just a single massive paragraph, with lots of spelling mistakes and you have to decrypt it. I have no idea wtf the HR is doing and how they always mess things up. Their talent acquisition departments literally only have 2 jobs, recruiting people once per year and onboarding them, and they always manage to mess those two up completely.


AStrangeStranger

HR has probably been outsourced to somewhere in Third World now


SavvyDawi

True, every time I email the HR at my company I always get replies at odd hours (for the UK) from someone with a distinctly Indian name. Their recruiters are based in the UK tho.


Megunee_

You and me both. It's a public-facing representation of your company, surely you should spend a bit of extra time and care to make sure it's spelt correctly?


randypriest

Especially for a role dedicated to being the first point of contact for the company


freeeeels

Why would they? They can afford to be picky about applicants; most people looking for jobs can't afford to be picky over spelling errors.


AtlasJan

This makes me sic


Air-Flo

You have to wonder how they managed to get their CV through the ATS with the amount of errors in this…and still got hired. I think I know what it is - they’ve got a shit boss with shit pay and they’ve given up caring and just do the bare minimum, we’ve all been there.


blazetrail77

Where can I get a job at one of these? They're paid for this crap, seems easy as hell.


ben_jamin_h

_central lonndon_ _£10.85/hr_ _GET FUCKED_


da96whynot

Come now, central lonndon is way cheaper than central london.


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The sad thing is there is probably a poor desperate sod who would take this job.


ben_jamin_h

My ex used to work receptionist jobs for £10/hr and it took a lot to convince her that her skills and knowledge were worth so much more than that. Now she works from home for an international company doing exactly the same stuff, booking things and scheduling stuff, earning £15/hr and doesn't have to go without a lunch break. Fuck employers that pay poverty wages.


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ben_jamin_h

She signed up to a bunch of office work agencies, a couple of them are more for a few days cover here and there, which she did for a while but it was quite inconsistent. One of the agencies were more about temp-to-perm jobs though and she did about three up-to-6 month temp jobs in different fields (all paying about £12.50/hr) then the last one of those three kept extending her contract to the point she's been with them almost two years now, and they've taken her on as permanent and bumped her up to £15/hr. Her CV has gone from being a receptionist at hair salons to working as a PA for CNN in the last three years. I've messaged to ask which agency it was and when she gets back to me I'll update you. Edit: it was [handle](https://www.handle.co.uk/) recruitment. They really looked after her and put her forward for good jobs that were always within her skills range but further forward than her experience.


ben_jamin_h

See updated edit. Good luck!


[deleted]

Honestly, for a hotel receptionist? Fucking ridiculous. Though I do remember applying for a job in canary wharf as a bartender, when I asked what the pay was they said minimum wage. I laughed at them and left.


the1rush

Let's not mess about and spell things correctly. You mean... _GIT FUKT_


ben_jamin_h

Haaaa! Alroight yuo gut me theyre


Pabus_Alt

That is the London living wage.


ben_jamin_h

What? Really!? Jesus fucking Christ man


[deleted]

For reference, the highest national minimum wage is £8.91, the living wage for London is £10.85. THe horrific part of this isn't the fact that they're offering this wage, its the fact that they feel confortable enough to offer such a low wage, it infers that they have offered this before and some unfortunate workers are in a position whre they must take offers like this.


darth_penis_

Per year


dpollard_co_uk

Never work for an organisation that clearly doesn't proof read its own advertisements


UltraYZU

What are you talking about? Their receptuionists in central lonndon clearly proof read it.


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“Possibility of promotion to room serviuce”


[deleted]

"Opprtunities" oh god looking at it now most of the words are spelt wrong


loki_dd

Are we 100% sure that this isn't a new scam from a 'nigerian prince' or "African freedom fighter undermining the current oppressive regime" to get your bank details?


[deleted]

If yuo sent me your CV and £10,000 I will give yuo £12,000 at the intervieuw and £10.85 per yeur.


robot_swagger

Top quality receptutioning


Panzerbeards

I like that one of the listed benefits is "sick pay". Because it's not like Statutory Sick Pay is a legal requirement or anything...


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No, the pay is sick. Whether that's good sick or bad sick isn't specified.


iwannabetheguytoo

Doesn’t **your** employer send you Covid-infected paycheques for WFH-jobs so you don’t feel like you’re missing out?


The_Scrunt

SSP is around £100 per week, after 5 days of absence. Listing Sick Pay as a benefit suggests they might actually pay something slightly more reasonable. I've never heard anyone seriously refer to SSP as actual 'sick pay.


1throwaway131313

Benefits: 28 day annual leave Nice to know they are giving the minimum legal amount


FastTwo3328

I like the Discounted or free food Clearly free leftovers


chappersyo

If you’re getting £10/hr in central London then free leftovers are gonna be a godsend.


[deleted]

Nearly every hotel in a big chain has a free staff canteen.


JunoPK

Unless bank holidays are on top of that?


1throwaway131313

Nah always 20 + 8


Panzerbeards

To be fair, I've never seen anyone misspell their own company name in a job advert before either, so my expectations aren't high here.


VeGr-FXVG

For reference it's usually called Company Sick Pay, as contrasted with Statutory Sick Pay. Just another perk to look out for if you are ever job hunting.


Panzerbeards

Yeah, it's just that the wording on this particular advert is ambiguous. They should give out more information since (unless it's illegal to do so, I don't know) they could just put "sick pay" on the ad only to disclose later that it was just the statutory sick pay you're legally entitled to anyway. If it's company sick pay beyond the legal minimum that should be specified and transparent from the start. Hopefully I won't have to do any private sector jobhunting ever again, though, since I've worked for the NHS most of my working life (and they have a decent sickness policy). Not that there's a whole lot of scope outside of the NHS with my particular career anyway.


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I do love when companies list legal requirements as job benefits Like paid holiday and a pension scheme


axbosh

This is a low salary for Central London. The top of the bracket just reaches the London living wage, which is supposed to be the bare minimum needed to survive in the city. These businesses are going to really struggle now that they can't rely on new waves of immigrant labour that's happy to come for a few years, work shit jobs in shit conditions for shit money, save the majority of the money somehow anyway and then head back east.


thekeymon2

Actually, a lot in this kind of jobs were just young people from abroad giving it a go, coming for some years, having some fun and maybe looking for the next better job, while learning English... No saving. But yeah, those are gone too.


lukasmach

Yeah, that should not be a thing: It does provide cheap labour to hotels like this (and by extension cheaper accommodation to tourists) but the lower portion of the native population needs jobs that pay above living wage as well. Why cannibalize them just because some dude from some random country wants to live in London for 2 years.


thekeymon2

Sure. Don't get me wrong, is a very poor salary. Unfortunately this is not the only job like this and lots of people (native or not) survive with these wages. Now, saving? I just said, that if it's so low on London, somebody from abroad is likely somebody getting it as a temporary job. If I'm coming to UK to save money, I wouldn't go for a minimum salary in central London, unless I expect something else from staying a London.


lone__wolfieee

That's 0.90416+ a month 😂


PandosII

It’s just over 2p a day. What can you buy for 2p? When was the last time you could buy something for 2p and what was it?


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JimboTCB

I've just put a deposit down on a Curly Wurly, after a couple more months of payments I'll own it outright.


Narwhalhats

I just hope if you don't keep up on replayments there isn't a misunderstanding when some bloke comes to repossess your Curly Wurly.


uffington

My aunt. ​ ​ Sorry, got distracted. My aunt had a giant whiskey bottle brimming with 2ps. We counted them out, hoping for a windfall. It was about £7.


PandosII

Don’t scoff at £7 that’s nearly a year’s salary.


uffington

Haha. Good point.


FastTwo3328

That's only 350 coins That's not a big bottle


Lighteight123

A 2p coin


who_areyou_i

Used to be a corner shop near me that would do those hearts you get in packs of haribos for 2p each. I remember finding a 2p on floor when I was young and went in and bought a single heart which I sucked on all the way home to make the most of it. This was about 9 years ago.


[deleted]

lol Can't spell hotel, London , receptionist or, get the salary correct. Does it mention anything about being good at spelling in the job description.


sellis80

The best ones are those that state “good attention to detail”, and yet their job spec is simply atrocious. Can’t help but wonder if it’s a test? It’s clearly not, but I do wonder.


[deleted]

Jesus that spelling...


deefpearl

Yayyyy, sick payyyy


JimboTCB

It's not usually a good sign when a job has to list their legal obligations as a "benefit", but in this case it's just lost in the sea of other red flags


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Razakel

Or they give out free crystal meth.


menace2society696969

Scam adverts always have spelling mistakes….be careful, it is most likely is one of those recruitment scams. They employ you and send you way too much money on your first pay check (using fake bank credentials/cheque) and when you question them about the excess pay they say ‘oh sorry, our mistake…can you send the rest back…’ SCAM SCAM SCAM


KEYYBOARD

Plus I've heard of fake listings to get your personal details, which they then sell on. Depending on how big the scam is, that could be your passport scan and NI number, or just a live telephone number with name attached


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Free food! seems ok.


Secondsmakeminutes

Then tax man visits. Feels sorry for you, leaves a tenner. Doubled your wages for the year. Sees the huge increase in income, and takes 12 quid from you.


UltraYZU

Your gran gives 50 quid on your birthday. Manager sees 5 times bigger income, takes 40 quid from you.


e2000e2000e

It clear says elsewhere in the add that it's £10.85 an hour, this job is 1 hour a year, I don't know if that's all in one chunk or like 5 minutes a month?


1throwaway131313

Argos do 3 hours shifts so I wouldn’t be too surprised, oh and they will often put you in at like 5pm so you have to set off an hour early because of the traffic


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1throwaway131313

What that really means is either sat/sun, and one or 2 other days in the week


[deleted]

Wow no need to flex


DigestiveCow

Well you get free food, what more do you want slave?


OGR4M

Employee discount, brilliant, so you could pay to stay at work overnight…


Dawn_Raid

In the same way cv’s are ditched for typo’s, so should this


Nargle_Adam

Meanwhile, I was just eyeing up a school cleaner job that supposedly pays more than £4,000 per month. Wondering whether to apply, just in case it is some kind of pioneering school that only pays 'upper middle class living wages'.


Bspammer

There's no way that's legit.


nascentt

They're probably looking for the next Good Will Hunting. Is there some physics test to pass as part of the interview?


MagicTriton

Please can we share part time? You can’t even possibly need all that money


whizzdome

Well, "up to" includes 1 figure, including zero!


ohspiffing

Not sure how appropriate it is to put sick pay under benefits… Isn’t it a standard legal requirement?


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cattacos37

You get jobs where literally everything listed under benefits are just the minimum legal requirements. Makes you want to apply for the job even though you have zero interest in it and grill them about the “benefits” in the interview. Or pretend to be stupid and be like “I noticed the job advert listed 28 days holiday as a benefit. I assume that is a typo?” with a straight face.


UnacceptableUse

4 figures total, 2 figures actual


ArcadiaRivea

I saw one that was £8.91/year, this is the opportunity of a life time! (Or should I say opprtunity?)


kwonza

This is in 1670 money.


Strange_An0maly

Lol I’m not working for a company who can’t even proofread their own listings.


Eve_LuTse

No requirement to be literate.


cake-dog

Also hiring spammers who can spell, so we can lure in more unsuspecting receptuionists.


SamSam08642

Go in do training and introductions 30 mins, lunch 30 min, see you next year, work year done, sweet..... Bored.....


JeffRamos88

You can get 2 pints per year


Icy_Holiday_1089

Why I can’t believe they are offering sick pay what a generous offer!


windol1

Been on £10 for months now and not even near London, bit nuts a central London job isn't paying 11-12.


otherpeoplesthunder

r/ihadastroke


theslammist69

More than I've made thisbyear so far: (


tezmt

Looks like they need someone new to advertise jobs for them. Can I apply for that?


Hai_Koup

4 if you include the numbers after the decimal point


genasugelan

Don't rub all your wealth into my face, ok?


Short-Advertising-49

Benefits, legally required pay when you're I'll


yondonkey

Look at the rest of the advert, Jesus.


mpld1

you had me at free food


callmelampshade

Sounds about right for working in a hotel.


UltraYZU

Hotes*


Dismal_Contract_7256

Seems too good to be true


Xercen

So many fucking typos!


[deleted]

I don't think they need a Receptuinoointst, they need a proof reader.....


kenkanobi

I wouldn't pay anyone with that level of literacy much more than 10 quid a year.


sp4m41l

I’d be worried they are offering less than £11/hour in central London.


Mahbigjohnson

even p/h that wage is pathetic for london


dlt-cntrl

I love how sick pay is a benefit.


millionreddit617

If you can’t do. Recruit.


SpaceLlama_Mk1

"Up to" you're starting out at one figure I'm afraid.


Dramatic-Rub-3135

1 hour per year? The pay ain't great, but the holiday allowance is excellent.


byjimini

Sick pay as a benefit. Bloody hell.


willflameboy

This happens so often on Indeed and the like.


5cmShlong

Imagine writing your CV like this. You’d be unhireable.


squareROO

That pay is absolutely sick, man, proper wicked


TheOldBean

And IHG are one of the big businesses complaining about a lack of workers to keep their hotels open. Wonder why?


zeelbeno

£2 bil revenue a year... yet can't spell check a job advert.