At this point, if anyone on the internet tells me that a video is going to “blow my mind,” or that I need to “wait for it,” or that I should prepare to “change the way I think,” I immediately want to run an ultra-marathon down an abandoned mine shaft and into the earth’s molten core. I despise a “big reveal.” How dare a YouTube video presume it can teach me a lesson! So, naturally, I was skeptical of this viral video of the “world’s toughest job interview,” which promised to blow applicants’ minds with an amazing “gotcha” at the end. Turns out, I WAS RIGHT. THIS VIDEO IS STUPID.
Via AdWeek:
The Boston agency posted this job listing online for a “director of operations” position at a company called Rehtom Inc. The requirements sounded nothing short of brutal:
Standing up almost all the time
• Constantly exerting yourself
• Working from 135 to unlimited hours per week
• Degrees in medicine, finance and culinary arts necessary
• No vacations
• The work load goes up on Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year’s and other holidays
• No time to sleep
• Salary = $0
You can watch the video above. Done? Okay. Here we go. Spoiler, for any of you still in possession of un-blown minds:
The big reveal, at the end of the “interview,” is that there already are millions of people who do that thankless job every single day of their lives.