Another little thing

I am always skimming job postings, I am not critically unhappy at my current job but it is always a good idea to keep ones eyes open. There are always puzzling postings which make me wonder if anyone actually responds to them, or indeed if anyone is supposed to.

A red flag for me is always the postings that don't tell you the name of the business, or even what exactly the job would be doing, they are written in the form of an advertisement almost and it is competently done, so I assume most of those are marketing schemes or some insanely demanding commission based gig, but then there are the ones that are clearly not written with mass appeal in mind, it's like two sentences: "Looking for a hard worker, call for more info" that's it, no name, no address, no job description, no idea if it is part or full time, and no hint of what the pay is like. I make it a point to not respond to those so that there isn't even my phone number in their system in case they are some data collection scam, but I gotta wonder is there some dude out there looking for a personal driver or data entry guy and offering like twenty bucks an hour with benefits just completely baffled at the lack of response? Probably not but I like the idea, similar to how I like to think that the bathroom graffiti that promises a good time if you call a number actually has some chill guy on the other end who wants someone to eat nachos and play Magic with or something.

What they probably are are some form of legally mandated public job posting. There's a pretty famous one that is relevant. The Mar-a-Lago club owned by our glorious orange leader vastly prefers to hire foreign workers on visas rather than American citizens, but they have to post their positions publicly before they are allowed to hire them, they get around this by posting a small advertisement in a local paper with small circulation for like a two week period or some shit, giving as few details as possible and making prospective hires apply by fax of all things.

It's another example of the more subtle powers the "job creators" have, just as the whole time clock thing I talked about last week was another, it's a bit more directly harmful since it reduces competition for theoretically desirable employment but it isn't like it's the end of the world. But it's another power the bosses have that we don't, the average job hunter can't exactly leave the country looking for work, not easily anyway, nor do they often have the luxury of picking and choosing their exact terms of employment.

It's just another little thing in the thousands of little things, but worth noting, the little things might be easier to fight than the big ones at the moment, though it escapes me as to how.