Normally we steer clear of railing on terrible job postings. There's just so many delusional employers out there and we spend so much time looking that, if we wanted to, we could devote the entire website to their missteps. That said, we couldn't ignore this little ditty on Craigslist.
Major law firm in Newark, New Jersey seeks a recent Ivy League graduate for an entry-level paralegal position.
Ideal candidate should have at least 1-2years experience in a law firm and/or major corporation.
Candidate should be computer savvy, well spoken, and have the ability to multi-task.
The salary is 35,000 per year- non-negotiable.
O.T. work is a MUST!
Are they seriously serious? Like "Ivy League" as in Harvard, Yale, Princeton, etc.? Being a paralegal can be a good job but if you worked your ass off from the time you step out of the womb getting straight A's from coloring to calculus, acing the SATs, doing community service and joining clubs you have absolutely no interest in but look good on your resume (or you were born rich and/or as a legacy kid) all to get into one of the 8 most prestigious universities in the world where they filled your brain with thoughts of changing the world, bankrupting large companies on Wall Street, joining the Illuminati or whatever, you'd think there would be more waiting for you than an opportunity to be shat upon by some half-wit attorney who's never even read Chaucer. You'd be better off doing an internship or working for a non-profit or even joining the Peace Corps (where you might literally be shat upon).
Sure, concievably we could be missing the point and it's some secret Skull and Bones message where "paralegal" means "spy" and it's not like the Ivy League needs some barely literate blogger to defend their graduates (unless, of course, they want to pay us vast sums of money to do it, then we'd be happy to continu.) but if this is what the best and the brightest can expect, what hope is there for the rest of us. We didn't go to an Ivy school, or a little Ivy or a Public Ivy or a New Ivy or a Black Ivy or even Texas the home of Royal Ivey. In fact, our Alma Mater is ranked substantially below even the comparatively crappiest of their schools - Brown and Cornell tied for only 15. Is the economy that bad? Obama keeps telling us it's getting better and we just started another war so that's sure to help, but for now, it looks like we're totally screwed.
Seriously though, the real problem here isn't with the job, or the pay, or the quality of education, it's about the fact that this law firm obviously sucks. Any group of people who thought it was a good idea to say they'd only accept candidates from the most prestigous of institutions are douches with no connection with reality and, ivy or not, nobody should have to work under those conditions.
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