Upholding the tradition of millennial aversion, London based cafe and event venue Tea House Theater wants to hire you—but also wants you to know that you suck.
In a now-deleted job advertisement-cum-rant against millennials, the venue states off the bat that “we have not been impressed so far”.
After elaborating on the various struggles the tea house and performance art venue has survived through—such as staying open during economic recession, and struggling to break even and receive funding—the ad then turns on young potential employees.
“It saddens me to be putting this advert up for the third time in as many months,” begins the ad.
“Are you just not taught anything about existing in the real world…did no one teach you that the end of your studies is the beginning of your education?”
The job description states that candidates should have office skills, be able to create and develop business management systems to help the business grow, and also know how to run both paper and digital filing systems.
“One old lady used to run the whole of Mountview Academy with an IBM computer, it shouldn’t be this hard.”
The cherry on top of the depressing ad is that the offered salary for the full time position is between £15-20,000 a year—approximately US$19-26,000—and the business is located in South Central London, one of the world’s most expensive cities.
The Tea House Theater’s job ad and Facebook page have since been taken down—but not before drawing the ire of millennials, who were quick to take screenshots and express their disgust on Twitter.
Does the company have valid reasons to be dissatisfied with millennials, or does the ad take it too far? Read more below.
Have the Tea House Theatre not considered that this fuckin obnoxious advert puts anyone with relevant skills off ever wanting to work there pic.twitter.com/tYFICxSBW6
— shon faye (@shonfaye) July 17, 201715k for a full time job in London and they're already speaking to you like shit before you've even applied I mean
— shon faye (@shonfaye) July 17, 2017Tea House Theatre sound a bit like a sad angry misogynist who gets angry at women for not wanting to date him
— Ned Glasier (@nedglasier) July 18, 2017I work in admin, in the charity sector where there is often no money, and I make more than that. Good grief.
— Madeleine (@ramblingmads) July 19, 2017Tea House Theatre this morning pic.twitter.com/tlmnuVs1kn
— Ryan Devlin (@RyanDevlin_) July 18, 2017[via Dazed Digital, image via screenshot]