Family-friendly recruitment drive at AFC Fylde

It's the "say your workplace is toxic, without saying it's toxic" challenge.

Nobody is entitled to a toxic workplace.
 
After taking on the feedback from around the nation and beyond, Dog Food has relisted the advert which now comes with a handy glossary for terms such as "office-dweller", "delegator" and "work-life balance".

 
After taking on the feedback from around the nation and beyond, Dog Food has relisted the advert which now comes with a handy glossary for terms such as "office-dweller", "delegator" and "work-life balance".

Yeah.... not better
 
These roles currently report directly into the Chairman and will do for the foreseeable future.
So, while he's delegating the shit out of everything, and leaving at 3 to collect the kids from school, you're rushing round with a broom up your arse doing everything, woebetide you if you're caught asking anyone to help!!
Sounds a lot like MY job lol lol 😂
 
It’s just about to be on BBC LOCAL NEWS...Look Northwest or whatever it’s called nowadays....they trailed it at the start of the show
 
If you agree with the wording I doubt anyone enjoys working for you much
Oh I can assure you it was just the opposite. Made many lifelong friendships with 90% of former employees long stayers. We simply told them what was expected, what they'd get in return and it worked superbly apart from the minority who were not up to the job, unreliable or did what they wanted while I paid them for not doing what we agreed. The 90% always got what was agreed plus a lot more during certain periods of the year. The other 10% moved on, some quicker than others.

I feel sorry for employees who are taken advantage of but it has to work both ways.
 
Oh I can assure you it was just the opposite. Made many lifelong friendships with 90% of former employees long stayers. We simply told them what was expected, what they'd get in return and it worked superbly apart from the minority who were not up to the job, unreliable or did what they wanted while I paid them for not doing what we agreed. The 90% always got what was agreed plus a lot more during certain periods of the year. The other 10% moved on, some quicker than others.

I feel sorry for employees who are taken advantage of but it has to work both ways.
Alright calm down Alan ** Sugar...
 
Im really struggling to see where the problem is here. The "business" and thats what it is, first and foremost, is rooting out the slackers and the cruisers in life. I wish them all the best and defend their advertisement wholeheartedly. Good luck to them!
 
Who wrote that job advert? Awful.
You must be a civil servant or work for Tesco or some other big company where you can hide. Whats the problem in telling any prospective candidate the "real deal". Thats hw winners are born. No wonder Blackpool is on its arse!!! No fighters no winners, just gripers and sinners.
 
You must be a civil servant or work for Tesco or some other big company where you can hide. Whats the problem in telling any prospective candidate the "real deal". Thats hw winners are born. No wonder Blackpool is on its arse!!! No fighters no winners, just gripers and sinners.
What a load of macho bollocks 👍

The advert doesn't have a word of truth in it, what are the responsibilities, person spec, salary etc...? It's hiding behind a 'are you man enough?' cliché. 'Winners'? What are people winning?
 
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It's the kind of job advert I might have written when I was about 14, before I'd learned that there are rules you need to follow and some basic professional standards you should try to meet.
 
You must be a civil servant or work for Tesco or some other big company where you can hide. Whats the problem in telling any prospective candidate the "real deal". Thats hw winners are born. No wonder Blackpool is on its arse!!! No fighters no winners, just gripers and sinners.
We won four in a bed this afternoon 😛👍🍊
 
You must be a civil servant or work for Tesco or some other big company where you can hide. Whats the problem in telling any prospective candidate the "real deal". Thats hw winners are born. No wonder Blackpool is on its arse!!! No fighters no winners, just gripers and sinners.
Winners aren't born. They train, they learn, they get experience. And as with everything in life, sometimes you win, sometimes you don't. It is the journey that matters the most.

And what exactly are sinners in this context?
 
You must be a civil servant or work for Tesco or some other big company where you can hide. Whats the problem in telling any prospective candidate the "real deal". Thats hw winners are born. No wonder Blackpool is on its arse!!! No fighters no winners, just gripers and sinners.
No, I work for a massive power company in a pressurised management role who take no prisoners. But don't write absolute wank job specifications.
 
Have heard that there is quite a bit of misogyny around those parts. Haythornthwaite is proper old boys club. I hear they've already made themselves unpopular is the Conference North with their 'big club' attitude.
 
Have heard that there is quite a bit of misogyny around those parts. Haythornthwaite is proper old boys club. I hear they've already made themselves unpopular is the Conference North with their 'big club' attitude.

You've heard there's mysogyny at Fylde and you've heard they've made themselves unpopular in the Conference North
Give us some evidence then.
 
What a bunch of soft arsed namby pambies cry babies Brits have turned into. Better to tell everyone what the job is going to be like than firing their arse after a week!
 
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I'm sorry Mr Haythornthwaite but I told the applicants they might have to stay in the office until 3pm
 
What a bunch of soft arsed namby pambies cry babies Brits have turned into. Better to tell everyone what the job is going to be like than firing their arse after a week!
Again, it doesn't tell you anything at all.

It's complete bollocks, it's like they've watched Wall Street and the Apprentice while only reading The Art of the Deal, it's unprofessional, borderline illegal and totally lacking any actual useful information for prospective candidates.

Anyone worth actually employing will avoid this like the plague. This would get laughed out of every single HR meeting in the land, you can only hope the contract is a little bit more professional otherwise if you hire someone and piss them off then any tribunal is going to rip your balls off for this kind of outdated rubbish.
 
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Anyone worth actually employing will avoid this like the plague. This would get laughed out of every single HR meeting in the land, you can only hope the contract is a little bit more professional otherwise if you hire someone and piss them off then any tribunal is going to rip your balls off for this kind of outdated rubbish.

Funny enough, I think they'll get exactly what they're looking for, without all the wasted applications and pointless abortive interviews.
 
Totally counter productive. That job advert might attract and reveal someone who will put up with shit and work under certain conditions but it won't give them the best person for the job.
 
I had someone work for me once, he appeared very eager until it came to Friday.
I said see you in the morning,and he said oh I can't work Saturday morning it's shopping at Morrisons for me!
 
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