Saturday, November 21, 2015

Indeed Guitar Ad

Wow, what a hilarious ad! This is for some job-hunting site that claims to be the world’s best, although neither I, nor anyone I know, have ever heard of it before. But what a great picture this ad paints of what I’m guessing is everyone’s employment dream come true.

So in this ad, a luthier takes great pains to build an excellent, masterfully-crafted guitar, only to have the guy who buys it smash it onstage the very first time he plays it. So I am guessing that if we get our jobs on Indeed, everything we work for will be completely and immediately destroyed? Well, that’s what it looks like based upon this ad of theirs. Nice job on giving us all perspective on the meaninglessness and futility of our life’s work. (Ahem.)

Like they say: Sisyphus had it easy.

Here’s the ‘smashing’ spot:


And this is Sisyphus, for those who are not familiar with him: