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Jolly Nice Team Member
Jolly Nice - Cirencester
£7 an hour
If you are a Jolly Nice, intelligent and hard working [b]graduate[/b] then this may be your thing...Jolly Nice is a vibrant farm shop and takeaway cafe situated halfway between Stroud and Cirencester on the site of an old petrol station and managed by a brilliant young team who are empowered to run the shop to their best ability.
We have high standards, a big yurt (complete with woodburner) for seating and a new open kitchen as the takeaway, we've won numerous awards for our home made ice cream and the rare breed beef in our burgers comes from our own farm.
We're looking for people with a lovely smile to greet our customers in the coffee shop. You should also be enthusiastic, intelligent, organised, confident and hard working and can firmly commit to at least six months with us........
Your main responsibilities will be to serve behind the till in the farm shop, make coffee to a very high standard (you'll be trained by our suppliers), restocking the shop and the fruit and veg (outside) and generally making our customers feel like they've had a jolly nice time.
A passion for good food is essential and a countryside background is an advantage as you'll be expected to learn about everything we sell from our ice cream to burgers to our locally grown veg.
Salary starting at £7/hr with lunch included and 20% staff discount on all shop products plus a whopping 28 days paid holiday a year. This post suits graduates who are contemplating their long term careers.
Please only apply if you fit our specification above. If you do we'd love to hear from you by sending a CV, recent photo and (very importantly) a brief covering letter.setting out what you could bring to Jolly Nice.
Job Location:
Cirencester
Required experience:Eloquent, Confident & Organised with a Great Smile: 1 year
Required licence or certification:Own transport
[b]Required education:Bachelor's[/b]
http://www.indeed.co.uk/cmp/Jolly-Nice/jobs/Team-Member-a7f4af6f3a24176e
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They've basically said in the blurb that it's intended for a recent graduate to do for a bit whilst contemplating what they're going to do in the future. Basically they don't want a long term employee, just a series of short term, reasonably nice, young people.
Smug staff for a smug cafe
Law degree needed to be a barista 😆
Suits desperate person who expects nothing in return, amazed it's not an internship
Suits graduate who doesn't know a whopping 28 days is the legal minimum.
Not dissimilar to the B&Q targeted ads for the older generation some years ago.
recent photo
^ its at this point I'd be sifted out 😥
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Bachelor's
maybe they mean cup-a-soup?
A 'whopping' 28 days paid holiday a year. Probably includes bank holidays. So... the legal minimum then 😆
Edit - sorry IanMunro, I missed your post!
Law degree needed to be a barista
😆
Cirencester in pretensions bullshit shocker!
20% staff discount on all shop products
boom, that's it right there *steps back to avoid the stampede*
STW in nit picking shocker
It's a strange job ad I'd agree with that.
That aside Jolly Nice is a great place for a mid ride stop. The coffee and bacon sarnies are excellent. Kids will love it as they have be a big field to run around in. The farm produce is good, cakes made on site, everything's local, good value. The staff have always been good too.
So they're doing something right anyway...
If they are nice people why are they acting like bellends?
There are loads of unemployed people in need of a job who could fill this low skilled position. Stipulating a degree is plain ass hattery.
Wrecker +1
wrecker +2
+3. Education is irrelevant to most jobs. This is just pretentious wanakary.
We can't be far from the day when you need a degree to sign on.
Correlation is catching you there, send more to uni than you can employ and at least it should make the sign on queue feel over entitled...
Many moons ago I applied for an assistant manager position of an independent coffee shop in Derby - before I got a graduate job. I was told I was over qualified so they wouldn't interview me.
I wasn't quite sure how a business degree made me overqualified to serve cake, coffee and look after a shop! But wasn't too fussed.
I wasn't quite sure how a business degree made me overqualified to serve cake, coffee and look after a shop! But wasn't too fussed
Normally most small businesses looking for management want people who will stick around, they invest in people with training, learning and getting them up to speed that employing somebody who will be off when the first big offer arrives makes no business sense, if you don't get that then maybe you should send your business degree back 😉
I'm so glad I studied law with lovely smiling now
Perhaps we should all tweet them about it 😆
@jollynice_
I wish that was still a petrol station, far more useful. Bloody expensive it should be called.
Forget the degree they just need more staff, there's always a queue waiting for coffee and they sometimes 'forget' you, did stop in one day last week whilst on a ride but went for a cold drink instead, very rarely bother going with the family Old Lodge or Lavender Bakehouse are better options.
Any cafe that advertises for a "team member" sounds like a ****ing awful spot.
Middle class cafe in wanting middle class workforce only.
It must be shit leaving university without a job lined up these days.
might suit you and your riding buddies petefromearth, but if any local business i supported came out with that, i would tell them and then go elsewhere. its not that they have just targetted the advert at graduates, they are actively excluding anyone else.
actually it speaks volumes about the employer that they have to resort to indeed and are unable to fill their vacancy through word of mouth.
Is this the place with the Airstream caravan outside it?
[i]Middle class cafe in wanting middle class workforce only.[/i]
This
[i]Cirencester in pretensions bullshit shocker! [/i]
This
[i]If they are nice people why are they acting like bellends?
There are loads of unemployed people in need of a job who could fill this low skilled position. Stipulating a degree is plain ass hattery. [/i]
and definitely this
and, actually
[i]make coffee to a very high standard[/i]
It's just effing coffee, why is it treated like some effing artform? This isn't a rant particularly aimed at this lot though, more of a general anti-coffee-wnkary rant
It's just effing coffee, why is it treated like some effing artform? This isn't a rant particularly aimed at this lot though, more of a general anti-coffee-wnkary rant
Get OUT of STW! I bet you've not got a wood-burner either 😡
Bravo IHN! 😀
I am going to visit this place.
And I shall wee on it.
Wrecker and IHN have got the hammer onto the nail
Yep, social filtering.
[i]Get OUT of STW! I bet you've not got a wood-burner either[/i]
Nope I'm keeping it real and sticking it to the man. By, er, making coffee in a cafetiere, using the cheapest beans I can find.
And by 'cheapest beans I can find' I mean 'cheapest beans I can find in the Cirencester branch of Waitrose'.
And by 'sticking it to the man', I mean 'invoicing my IT contracting clients'.
And I may own a T5.
Cheap coffee? Well, one does have to make some allowances. Artisinal cheese and good lumberjack shirts are worth the extra at this time of year. As long as your smoking jacket comes from Pakeman, Catto and Carter you'll be reet.
PPfft. Everyone one knows that great coffee is curated, not 'made' 🙄 . Working class tosspots with ideas above their station.make coffee to a very high standard
Bellends.
Also. I don't see the point of the requirement - it's not actually gonna help them find a better employee from their point of view
I don't see the point of the requirement - it's not actually gonna help them find a better employee from their point of view
Case in point - my best mate has a first class BEng in Aeronautical Engineering and a PhD and is now a Senior Lecturer at Russell Group University.
He is, however spectacularly under qualified for this particular job owing to the fact that he rarely smiles, can barely make instant coffee to the manufacturers specification and lives hundreds of miles away.
Poor selection criteria indeed.
This is just pretentious wanakary.
As in, something "artisan" that comes from here?
Edit: Wanaka is jolly nice BTW, for anyone lucky enough to sod off to NZ for a nice holiday. I don't remember them having pretentious coffee shops either. Hunting fishing and shooting supplies, yes. Fresh ground arabica, no.
Further edit:
Wrecker and IHN have got the hammer onto the nail
only by being degree qualified in carpentry
I wasn't quite sure how a business degree made me overqualified to serve cake, coffee and look after a shop! But wasn't too fussedNormally most small businesses looking for management want people who will stick around, they invest in people with training, learning and getting them up to speed that employing somebody who will be off when the first big offer arrives makes no business sense, if you don't get that then maybe you should send your business degree back
No I completely understand that side of things. But why not say that rather than say I was overqualified? At that point I had no real management experience and a business degree had very little baring on the catering side of the business. I did however have a fair whack of experience in retail and customer service for someone relatively young. Which is what they said they wanted on the job spec.
Having now selected and interviewed people myself I wouldn't not interview people for a role because they had a degree when one might not actually be needed.
Anyway, it was just a meaningless anecdote. I did alright for myself in business once I got a proper job a couple of weeks later (about 15 years ago) although that too is of little consequence in my current career.
It's just effing coffee, why is it treated like some effing artform? This isn't a rant particularly aimed at this lot though, more of a general anti-coffee-wnkary rant
Ask any coffee drinker in Melbourne when they go to the UK or US, there is a gulf in quality between some black liquid and milk and a good coffee.
Anyway as a tea drinker if they put a tea bag in a pot then they can **** right off.... leaf or nothing
A degree can make all the difference between a good coffee and a burnt coffee.
It's also abight heving the raight aehccent.
Additionally, those local Cotswold oiks look beastly. One fears that no combination of Pashley, quiff or hat might ever begin to compensate for coarseness. In ones experience one simply canNOT jollify certain 'elements' where not even the best intentions suffice. One requires the full peckage orf the bat. Poor stock always results in poor soup. So if you wish to serve jolly GOOD soup you'll be requiring Jeremy or Julian rather than Jethro, and Tiarabelle or Thalia rather than Tracey. Stands to reason.
I think it's time to man the barricades, comrades. How about a real world DDOS attack on the poncy middle class warriors - lets all send in fake CVs and applications, and see who gets a bite ?
One requires the full peckage orf the bat.
LIKE!
Coffee shop needs eloquent and engaging staff to help sell over priced drinks to mainly affluent customers. It wants to pay a pittance. It knows there are unemployed graduates, probably a bit desperate whilst they wait for a 'proper' job who will fit these criteria. They know they they will will be looking on Indeed for that 'proper' job. They put together an advert full of the sort of keywords that grads will be putting in looking for that proper job. They write it in the sort of floury language their [s]victims [/s] potential employees are used to reading. They advertise locally in places where non-grads prepared to work for little money might look. Probably in less pretentious language.
Is this really so hard to understand?
Coffee and science.
[url= http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/23/a-chemistry-teachers-guide-to-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee ]http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/23/a-chemistry-teachers-guide-to-the-perfect-cup-of-coffee[/url]
They write it in the sort of floury language their potential employees are used to reading.
Floury? You are a gradwit, I assume?