This Company's Painfully Honest Help-Wanted Ad Promises the 'Worst Job in Town'

And it does sound bad

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A company is advertising "the worst job in town" on Australian job site Seek, and promises that whoever is hired as its new senior producer will work in a "poor location" and spend his or her time "managing a bunch of lazy egotistic creatives and developers."

The ad, which is real (see it below), was posted by digital recruiter Julien Viard, who was tired of seeing ads upselling jobs that probably suck and decided to try the opposite approach.

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