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HURRAY! Another shitty animation 'career opportunity'!

Many regular readers may recall my recent rant about the unfortunate practice of ''testing'' animators for new jobs. This lunacy has spread through the industry like cancer of the sphincter. Check out these fuckers. This wretched posting sums up everything that is sick with the employment scene (and the current mentality of employers):

Character Animator - Flash based
GXI Inc.

Job description:
Character animators, drop that mop and get back to your computers!

Marin county game developer is looking for a few top tier character animators well versed in Flash for upcoming game work. If your animation shows your ability to communicate the subtle difference between a belly laugh and a sarcastic laugh we\'re interested in you. Content is targeted to pre-school and grade school children. If you\'re not interested in \"cute\" please look elsewhere. This production work is highly detailed with a demanding client, so no \"Prima Donnas\" please.

Requirements/skills:
The ideal candidate for this position will have the following qualifications:

* A demo reel (or URL) showing character-based Flash animation
* Solid work habits that include the demonstrated ability to meet deadlines and be flexible enough to \"shift gears\" mid-way through a project with a minimum of handholding.
* Mastery in using Flash as a character animation tool. You will be tested.
* Proficiency in Photoshop (a lot) & De-Babelizer (somewhat).
* Layout and design sense a BIG plus.
If this opportunity is what you have been looking for, and you want to be a part of this energetic and creative studio, please email your resume, hourly rate and samples of your work to the e-mail address above.

Due to the high volume of resumes received, only candidates meeting the position and salary requirements will be contacted for interviews.

If I didn't know any better, I'd think that this was some kind of April Fools Day joke. Where do we start?

Character animators, drop that mop and get back to your computers!

Ho, ho. We're all out of work and working as janitors. Hardship is funny in BushWorld, see? Cunty McFuckwit has to remind us that we're desperate - that way we'll be better prepared to swallow their golden piss stream:

If your animation shows your ability to communicate the subtle difference between a belly laugh and a sarcastic laugh we\'re interested in you.

WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN? Other than the prick who wrote it has NO FUCKING IDEA ABOUT ANIMATION.

If you\'re not interested in \"cute\" please look elsewhere.

Actually, I'm not interested in working for a \"walking lump of ARSE\". That would be YOU, jobs@gxinc.com.

This production work is highly detailed with a demanding client, so no \"Prima Donnas\" please.

The only \"Prima Donnas\" are the ones writing this frigging ad, methinks. I'm sure the mental health specialists reading this will have opinions on the peculiar use of the ''\'' symbol.

* Mastery in using Flash as a character animation tool. You will be tested.

Well, at least they're upfront about THE TEST. I hope they find enough Mastery out there for all those sarcastic laughs that they'll be animating. "You will be tested." Sounds a bit like Yoda. It should have read: "Tested, you will be."

The only thing that these wankstains are testing is my patience.

Due to the high volume of resumes received, only candidates meeting the position and salary requirements will be contacted for interviews.

Ha Ha! All you animation wankers are out of work, so we can make you crawl on broken glass in our executive car-park and force you to \EAT THE CORN OUT OF OUR SHIT!\

Check out their hideous website. They might want to consider hiring some web-usability experts before taking on all those masterful flash animators...

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