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Progressive company
- Employees get to wear jeans every other Friday

Team player
- Must deal with dangerously territorial coworkers with rabid personalities

Upbeat personalities
- Must neither threaten us with any kind of lawsuit nor use the drug alcohol rehab benefit within the first year

Word processing skills essential
- There is a crippling case of carpal tunnel syndrome in your future

Public Relations Receptionist Professional appearance important
- $20 K a year job that requires a $100K year wardrobe

Pleasant telephone manner
- Be the voice of 1-900-suck

Earn up to $300 per hour
- Be 1-900-suck

Salary range $24K to $32K
- The salary is $24K

Jeans job!
- Minimum wage temporary job in concentration camp office

Will train
- Prior conviction of a felony or two, no problem

BA required, MA preferred
- Must be a MA willing to work for a BA salary

Civil service
- This job was filled from the inside six months ago

Women/minorities encouraged
- White males need not waste a stamp

Outstanding benefits package
- Health insurance

Tons of variety
- We took all of the heinous tasks no one else would do and rolled them into one job

Top notch communication skills
- Telemarketing

Beautiful offices in attractive locale
- Brand new tacky windowless office where picture frames match the carpet

Secretary
- Woman only job with the responsibilities of management and the wages of a migrant worker

Executive secretary
- The most powerful position in any company

Dedicated
- You're looking at a minimum of 80 hours a week until we force you into early retirement

Salary commensurate
- We'll pay you whatever the hell we feel like

Salary negotiable
- We'll take the lowest bidder

Competitive salary
- We'll pay you up to 10% more than your last job-period!

Competitive starting salary
- Ten cents above minimum wage

Pleasant atmosphere
- A staff of pod people

Professional atmosphere
- Zombie pod people

Fun, creative atmosphere
- Pod people from h-ll

Dynamic atmosphere
- Zombie pod people from h-ll

Gal Friday
- Anyone who actually applies for this job deserves it

Self starter
- Open to very broad interpretation, since no one really knows what this means