Physical demands of the job -- full disclosure

[AJ Roadster NJ]

I ran across this today on a job posting for an IT position. I guess it is tongue-in-cheek...

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Good sense of humor, wish it fit my skills.

AJ

[1fastsedan]

I ran across this today on a job posting for an IT position. I guess it is tongue-in-cheek...

Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit. The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Good sense of humor, wish it fit my skills.

AJ

I wish that was a joke. That's a real physical requirement description. They're often used for Americans with Disability Act compliance and worker's comp claims, light duty, etc. Part of the sue-happy politically correct culture we're all in now.

[AJ Roadster NJ]

Sheesh. In that case, they forgot to mention breathing, and of course regulating one's own body temperature.

[skullandbones]

OMG. Writing skills must not have been a job requirement for the HR person who put that together! But it's funny. It reminds me a little bit of instructions that are written in one language and then translated to another (sometimes losing something in the translation). WEK.

[Jacob McCrea]

Similarly worded descriptions of jobs' physical requirements are also used as part of the analysis for determining eligibility for Social Security disability payments. If you want some reading that's far less interesting than tube-chassis race cars, just look up Title 20 of the Code of Federal Regulations and read all about it. I spent 2 years as a law clerk for a federal judge, and part of the job was drafting opinions on Social Security appeals. Many of the decisions would turn on whether, given their limitations, the Social Security applicants could perform "sedentary," "light" or "medium" work activities.