there was a job listing for a babysitter that went viral on twitter
because of its high demands and very, very low pay.
We pulled a lot from twitter and facebook to really paint this story for you.
So this is approx on facebook school is starting again and
that means once again we need a nanny.
Please read all of these requirements.
You need to have a master's degree or higher so that our five year old and
seven year old will be intellectually challenged.
Know your bachelor of english doesn't mean you're smart.
Sorry.
More from them.
You must be 24-28 years of age to keep up with the activity
level of our kiddos and please plan to have your own housing.
Don't assume you'll be staying with us.
Yes, we have an extra room but the privilege is earned,
not assumed, just highly passive aggressive out the gate.
What kind of a person are you going to attract with this?
Alright. The list continues though.
We need you from seven a.m.
To 8:30 a.m.
And three p.m.
To six p.m.
Every week day.
And the pay will be $18 daily.
Plan to bring snacks or other food for
the kiddos as our cabinets will be locked during the day while we work.
You will also need to bring educational materials such
as workbooks as we do not keep anything like this at home.
Thanks.
So yeah, this appalled many Twitter users, let's read a few of those comments.
Shady Sheba says for $18 a day.
You too can spend $50 a day on food and educational materials for my child.
We're here to help you increase your master's degree debt while you're here,
make sure our five year old gets full ride scholarships.
And then we've got rouged institute saying,
I think my favorite thing is the $18 a day.
Not only is that insultingly low pay for four hours of work in an 11 hour period
where you can't really have another job, but they're so cheap, they couldn't
even go as high as 20 like they're gonna hand you a 20 ask for change.
So yeah, apparently, you know these insane demands are not very popular.
That's not surprising.
Here's another post that a twitter user shared.
Not necessarily from the same person Jessica because so
we're going to get to that post because that's
going to be potentially determinative as to whether this one is real, right?
So first I like to tweet to George Guerilla road and
their follow will be nobody wants to work anymore.
That's very classic.
But look, I think it's got to be a joke or at least at the very least there's
a mistake in there that no one can possibly think that's $18 a day.
So at a minimum it has to be $18 an hour.
If it's 18 dollars an hour, then maybe it's serious.
If they if they really meant 18 hours a day then it's definitely a joke.
So we're gonna disagree.
Second in fact we have a poll about this T.
Y. T dot com slash polls are curious what you
think, but but it's too much, it's too much except when Jessica read
you another one that is very similar and that is almost definitely real.
So and that goes to the zeitgeist, which is that there are posts
like this that even if it was a joke, people believe it's real.
Okay looking for a babysitter in the area please.
Private message me if you're interested here are my requirements,
have a bachelor's degree in child care.
Nine years of relevant babysitting service.
Three good references with phone numbers, full time availability,
including weekends, your own car and driving license, native english
speaking and preferred second language to teach my Children cpr certified ideally C.
N. A license,
no history of traffic tickets and no problems with the law.
I will be running your name through databases, very threatening, no tattoos,
no drugs, no alcohol, no sketchy social media behavior and or public pictures
must be ok with my two pit bulls must be okay with emergency last minute calls.
Perfect attendance 100% required, willing to pay for some snacks.
Will love to work with an infant.
Three year old, five year old ideally will be a trump fan in exchange.
That's the banger.
Alright, see that one is definitely real.
Okay and because you can tell that it's got some caveats in there and
etcetera and it is so overwhelmingly obnoxious that it
makes you think the first one might also be real.
The reason I think and I disagree with you by the first one could
be real is because people in this country are insane, they don't get it.
There is no relation between like providing someone with a livable wage and
then trying to take advantage of them.
We just covered labor, we covered unions,
who's to say that like freaking Cindy who lives in Manhattan,
you know and like pops pills at like noon is gonna be like okay,
this person will work for $18 a day.
I mean like it's basically an episode of Broad city as I see it personally.
Now the other part of this, Paying for snacks, paying for school supplies,
locking everything up until it's okay and making horrible wages.
There is only realistically one group of people that can be taken advantage of like
that in this country, you know who that is teachers, teachers, that's right,
100% that's teachers, but the government literally asked them to do that, yep.
So I mean that's a really good point given the Chipotle story we did earlier where
they treat workers just like this,
given what they do to teachers know you have to bring the supplies,
you have, you have to bring all of your supplies, all the erasers, everything.
Yeah, it's, it's so interesting, I used to do this thing on Tiktok where I would
react to these videos of just people saying absurd things.
You know, stuff like, like what?
Andrew Tate talks about just ridiculousness.
And I would just stitch the video and reply to it and be like,
I can't believe it's not satire.
Like I can't believe it's not butter because we're really in a space where you
can watch people say things and it's hilarious if it's satire,
but they're serious talks are so much more creative than saying,
I can't believe it's not butter.
But she's like amazing.
I already told that she's an amazing dad joke.
I did not, I did not.
I think you're devaluing like the service you provide.
I think you're one of the best tech talkers out there also check out
rebel headquarters where Jessica those amazing videos.
But anyway, back to this.
So you think it's real.
I don't know what to believe anymore.
I don't know if it's satire.
I don't know if it's not satire.
I think that's the interesting part about this story is the line of satires blurred.
It could be satire and people saying, you know, it's really difficult
to be a childcare worker in the United States right now, right?
It could be pointing at them.
Yeah. Look my intellectual curiosity is what
drives me to ask you guys what you think.
So go to dot com slash polls because we're kind of split on it.
But the point is the same is this insane job listing fake yes or no.
Okay.
But the point is the same either way, because since we're not sure if
it's satire or not, it's definitely a sign of the times.
Yes, right.
That that there are listings that are very, very similar to this and
they really do assume like, okay, I need you to come in and you need to be *** and
span and but my pit bulls can rip your face off, but that's okay.
Yeah, no tattoos, but don't you touch my snack food?
Okay, I'm gonna close that up and you need to bring like at least 80% of it is
stuff that has actually been asked for for sure.
Actually I'm gonna go back on something.
I could see why they would lock up the snacks Because to go back to Cindy
in Manhattan who lives in the $5 million dollar condo up there,
they're probably like a lot of edibles.
So she wants to lock up the edibles.
So the, you know, anti trump socialist Marxist, globalist,
leftist, what elitist, whatever, can't like eat any of her edibles and
everybody can come home to them