This is disgusting!

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/lgl/3271908732.html

LEGAL ASSISTANT - PART-TIME (Manhattan)

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Date: 2012-09-14, 3:16PM EDT
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Park Avenue based attorney seeks part-time legal assistant for business litigation and commercial practice. Job includes word processing of legal documents, filing and overall coordination of practice. Applicant must be highly intelligent and well organized. Top schools and grades are required. This will be checked. This is a real job with real responsibilities and is not an internship. If you are seeking an internship, please do not apply. Applicant must be able to work 15-20 hours a week for 2-3 days per week on a flexible schedule. No weekends or evening work. This must be your only position--------it is, therefore, perfect for a graduate student or someone with other interests that does not wish to work full-time. Do not, however, apply if you are seeking a full-time job, or are seeking to supplement another part-time job with this part-time job. In order to be considered, the applicant must submit a resume AND a "non-form" cover letter that explains why the applicant seeks part-time, as opposed to full-time, work. Applicants that submit form cover letters or submit cover letters that do not address that very specific question will not be considered.

• Location: Manhattan
• This is a part-time job.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

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I saw this ad this morning when I was looking through Craigslist to find a part time job.  I could not believe what I saw.

First, this guy expects you to have graduated from a TOP SCHOOL with TOP GRADES.  Further, he expects you to work for him 15-20 hours a week for 2-3 days and NOT HOLD DOWN ANOTHER JOB, nor does he want you to even SEARCH for another job.  In other words, you have to be stuck in part time job limbo AND be amongst the best of the best.  This person doesn't seem to realize that many students are going to have debt and are going to need money to pay off their debt AND live their lives. 

I can't help but wonder how many people will apply to this.  I picture him expecting kids from top schools like NYU, Columbia and maybe even Fordham, Cardozo or Brooklyn Law.  I can imagine the poor soul who ends up with this job secretly trying to apply for other jobs and getting some extra hours only to find himself caught by his boss who takes him to the back room, grabs a whip and starts to spank him furiously.