Cos it’s Halloween, and the number 13 wants to rear its ugly head in every way possible, we present to you: the 13 most terrifying job ads ever. If you’ve got a fiendish love of snails, a death wish or a criminal record, these peeps want to hear from you.
God speed. It’s a workplace jungle out there.
THE DINOSAUR-HATER
THE EVIL GENIUS
THE “NO HOBBIES ALLOWED”
THE SNAIL FETISHIST
THE “POSSIBLE SALARY”
THE STRAIGHT-TALKERS
THE KILLER CABBIE
THE SUB
THE “WE’RE NOT AFRAID OF A DISCRIMINATION LAWSUIT”
THE JUDGMENTAL AND PROUD
THE “PROBABLY NOT WRITTEN BY A HUMAN”
THE ADVENTURE
THE DEATH-BY-ACRONYMS
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If these goosebump-inducing specimens tickled your fancy, continue your jaunt through terror with the 7 worst cover letters ever written.
And if you need some time to recover from those mental images of what the snail job could entail, poke your nose through our calming selection of useful and decidedly mollusc-free bits and pieces:
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By Corissa Nunn, European Development at Enternships