Chino Valley, Arizona Web site
[quote]TITLE: Town Manager
DEPARTMENT: Administration
JOB STATUS: Exempt
SALARY: $85,000 - $115,000 annually
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Required to stand and or sit for long periods.
Occasionally required to reach with hands, feet and arms, and to talk or hear.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. [/quote]
Is this just bizarre PC speak? Can you not say blind or disabled?
It wasn’t just The PC speak that intrigued me Wolf.
Job Status: Exempt
Now that’s a concept worth toying with. I wouldn’t mind being exempt from my job from time to time and judging by the time sandman, tigerman , maoman, and wolfman spend on Forumosa you too would be qualified for just such a position.
Salary: 85,000 to $115,000
Sounds like a pretty cool salary for browsing the internet.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Required to stand and or sit for long periods.
Occasionally required to reach with hands, feet and arms, and to talk or hear.
Just the physical requirements required for putting on a cupa coffee.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.
Is this just bizarre PC speak? Can you not say blind or disabled?
And to answer your question.
No.
Surely it’s a spoof !
No Hex, it is the real thing; click on the link. It is open for applications until Nov. 14.
The responsibilities are as lengthy as they are vague. The population of Chino Valley is around 7,000, by the way.
[quote=“wolf_reinhold”]Chino Valley, Arizona Web site
[quote]TITLE: Town Manager
DEPARTMENT: Administration
JOB STATUS: Exempt
SALARY: $85,000 - $115,000 annually
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Required to stand and or sit for long periods.
Occasionally required to reach with hands, feet and arms, and to talk or hear.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision. [/quote]
Is this just bizarre PC speak? Can you not say blind or disabled?[/quote]
These sorts of ads have been around for years in the US. I’ve seen ads which read “Must be able to lift 10 pound objects.” From an HR legal standpoint, this is basically how you have to say “someone without serious physical handicaps.”
At US$85K/year minimum, you can bet the position is wired. The cousin of the town council’s chairman will miraculously be hired after reviewing her qualifications, which include ten years of watching “All My Children” and a recent intensive community-college class on sitting and standing for long periods. Patronage politics at its finest.
Most jobs simply require a breathing physical presence.
[quote=“Fox”]It wasn’t just The PC speak that intrigued me Wolf.
Job Status: Exempt
Now that’s a concept worth toying with. I wouldn’t mind being exempt from my job from time to time and judging by the time sandman, tigerman , Maoman, and wolfman spend on Forumosa you too would be qualified for just such a position.[/quote]
If I remember correctly from my days in university career development, “Exempt” means that the job is salary, not hourly. In other words, it is exempt from having to pay for the amount of time actually worked, including overtime, etc… etc… the normal “extras” of an hourly job.
[quote=“QuietMountain”][quote=“Fox”]It wasn’t just The PC speak that intrigued me Wolf.
Job Status: Exempt
Now that’s a concept worth toying with. I wouldn’t mind being exempt from my job from time to time and judging by the time sandman, tigerman , Maoman, and wolfman spend on Forumosa you too would be qualified for just such a position.[/quote]
If I remember correctly from my days in university career development, “Exempt” means that the job is salary, not hourly. In other words, it is exempt from having to pay for the amount of time actually worked, including overtime, etc… etc… the normal “extras” of an hourly job.[/quote]
QM, you are correct in regards to this and it is still how it works in US. But I think being an hourly employee are better so you get pay OT!! I was an salary employee and I don’t get to go home at noon when my job is done…
so it doesn’t make sense to be an exempt employee.
[quote=“MiakaW”] QM, you are correct in regards to this and it is still how it works in US. But I think being an hourly employee are better so you get pay OT!! I was an salary employee and I don’t get to go home at noon when my job is done…
so it doesn’t make sense to be an exempt employee.[/quote]
I"m not sure I agree with you Miaka. You are right, if you are exempt – i.e., a salaried employee – you won’t get paid overtime. And, no, you don’t get to go home at noon if your job is done. However, even if you stay at work and do nothing the rest of the day (but surf the internet, etc…), you still get paid for that time as a salaried employee. If you are hourly, you can go home at 12, but then you are only get paid for the hours you worked in the morning. So, ultimately, you get less money.
As a salaried employee, you are less dependent on the actual hours you work. As another example, when I was in the US, if my university closed because of snow, I still got paid as a salaried employee. However, the hourly people didn’t get paid for that day, since they only got paid for the actual hours worked.
And, at least in my job, the amount of overtime was negligible. So, in the long run, salaried employees did better.
Just my NT $2.