Training day poster mistaken for IKEA job offer and thousands clog up council phone lines
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 @ 9:00 PM
AT LEAST 7,000 people packed into the council offices in Almussafes (Valencia) yesterday because they thought the Swedish furniture giant IKEA was offering jobs there.
In fact, the town hall was merely carrying out a training workshop for its unemployed residents to enable them to apply for work at IKEA in the future when it finally opened in neighbouring Alfafar.
But the council's advert was misread by hopeful jobseekers,who thought it was a recruitment day after seeing notices on Facebook urging people to turn up there with a copy of their CV.
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