Millennials slam Tea House Theatre over ‘patronising’ job ad

YOUNG people are fired up over an ad for a job which questions whether they were “taught anything about the existing real world”.

Tea House Theatre was accused of patronising millennials through job ad. Picture: Google Maps

This might be one of the most offensive job ads going around.

Millennials are fired up over an ad they believe patronises them and questions their work ethic.

The directors at London cafe and event venue, Tea House Theatre, complained about having to advertise for the office administration job for the third time in three months and said the current staff had not been impressed by any of the new employees.

“Dear Millennials,” the ad started.

“As a professional company in the arts industry for the best part of twenty years, grafting, scraping, cap in hand to angels and funding bodies and occasionally getting lucky. Surviving on our box office, breaking even and revelling in the success that in the real world that is. It saddens me to be putting this advert up for the third time in as many months.

“Are you just not taught anything about existing in the real world, where every penny counts. Did no one teach you that the end of your studies is the beginning of your education?

“We are still here, after all these years. We run a venue in South Central London, we run as a receiving house, producing house. We have an outdoor events company putting on festivals on the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens. We have been lucky enough to have been funded on several occasions in the last five years by Arts Council England for our outdoor projects, but the bulk of the funding for the art in and around our venue comes from the venue itself. We raise our own money by running a successful business alongside and intrinsically part of our art. We opened in a recession and are about to embark on a number of major projects.

“One old lady used to run the whole of Mountview Academy with an IBM computer, it shouldn’t be this hard.

“We need a grafter, who can commit. The absolute dogs in office skills, the ability to run a paper filing system as well as a computerised one, the ability to complete and keep track of a huge to-do list, to make our office work, create and develop business management systems that help the business to grow, giving space for more creative work to go ahead. To see where we are headed and realise that it is in your own hands how far you are able to go with us as we grow.

“We have not been impressed so far.”

A job ad was slammed by millennials. Picture: Supplied

Millennials have slammed the advert, calling it “snotty and patronising”.

“Who’d seriously apply to work here?” One wrote on Twitter.

Another said: “Massive shouts to the three people who already quit on these d***heads this year, glad millennials know their worth.”

One young woman slammed the company and said when she interviewed for a role at the theatre earlier this year, the interviewer was eating breakfast.

She also she was also told she would be shouted at a lot.

“I wouldn’t have taken it if offered,” she tweeted.

“They also wanted short-listed candidates to do 2-3 days work unpaid to see how they’d cope in the office.”

Arts Council England has since tweeted the job posted on ArtsJobs was deleted because it breached its terms and targeted a specific age group.

“ArtsJobs is made up of user generated content and this job advert has now been removed,” it tweeted.

Tea House Theatre this morning pic.twitter.com/tlmnuVs1kn

— Ryan Devlin (@RyanDevlin_) July 18, 2017

News.com.au has contacted the Tea House Theatre for comment.

Originally published as Millennials slam Tea House Theatre over ‘patronising’ job ad