Who Is Workfarce?

The weirdest, meanest blogger in the Recruitosphere.

Jay-Dee pointed me to some odd comments on Recruiting Bloggers that led me to a blog called Workfarce.

At first I thought this might be Vin Dieselevey's dark side. But now I've changed my mind. Does anyone have any ideas? Here are some samples of his work.

On Papa John Sumser

I’ve never met John.... But he just seems like a cranky old bastard locked up in some cabin in northern California, smoking weed and eating saltines with butter-spread.

He’s that co-worker from hell — grouchy EVERY SINGLE DAY, the sort of person that if you handed him a million bucks would complain about the taxes he was going to need to pay.

On Jobster

No one knows exactly what Jobster is up to, and since they only have 7 people who work there it would be hard to find a truly reliable source.

On Mr Moustache

Animal is affine man indeed…but he has reason to bring you into this sandbox. He is an avid masturbator to all things gruesome and wrong.

On Don JGo: Picture

Comments

[Colin Kingsbury]

CM Russell has him named as Josh Akers. Maybe this fellow?
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/24/168

I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that he thinks it's all just a little salty fun. People who have never written for public consumption before often suffer from a degree of situational autism.I once worked in a cigar shop in Boston, so salty language doesn't offend me per se, but it's simply out of context here.

His willingness to call a spade a fucking shovel has gotten him some attention, but he needs to come up with something more interesting to say than "John Sumser is cranky," which is about as original as talking about Donald Trump's comb-over.

[Recruiting Animal]

Donald Trump has a comb-over? Snob, he didn't say "John Sumser is cranky." And that's the point, isn't it?

I, myself, have a limit to how many moustache rides I want to hear about but I have to admit that I think this guy is funny. (So far I've only read the postings about people I know).

[Colin Kingsbury]

OK, I'll grant you that there is room to talk about the Donald's rug if you manage to say it in a very clever way. Maybe I'm expecting too much, but his riff on Sumser was entirely formulaic, hitting every senior-moment cliche except the adult diaper. When you can swap the target of your rant with any other over-40 person out there, that's not particularly interesting.

[WorkFarce]

Colin and Animal...I didn't know we were playing "Where's Waldo..er WORKFARCE".

Firstly to Colin. Um if you don't like how I write, my subject matter, or my childish ramblings the please look away...WorkFarce is NOT for you. I, like you, am a trained Journalist and former full-time pen-pusher...I have however been in the recruiting and HR Tech industry for over 10 years...so I have a pretty keen eye on the industry, where it has been and where I BELIEVE it to be going.

Secondly to Animal. I like your style. You are quite the wordsmith and I am a new but avid reader. You actually GET that all Blogs are not supposed to be taken seriously. Satire and Humor and metaphor are things that can actually be appreciated by those with high levels of intelect.

Colin...everyone is given a fair shake at WORKFARCE...just because I choose to poke fun at an industry veteran (the way some may poke fun at Bill Gates, or Jack Welch) does not make WorkFarce a bad destination on the web... if you dig a little deeper you just MAY realize that I also write about recruiting, advancement of processes and, oh yeah, APPLICANT TRACKING SYSTEMS...

I have a feeling that you listen to light rock on your way to work colin, probably classical...and that's fine with me, but that would be in poor tase if I made that assumption about you... without it being in the confines of satire or a humorist piece...in your case, however, it is seemingly fine that you make assumptions about WorkFarce.

I won't stop writing, and chances are, like Tipper Gore in the 80's, Colin, you won't stop reading or listening.