Craigslist San Francisco
A lengthy Craigslist ad for a personal assistant and its request for help with, well, life itself has gone viral just hours after its posting. The ad starts off simply enough: Two 30-something — or 40-something, as it was later updated to — executives with a dog are looking to get their lives organized since their work hours keep them busy. They've accepted reality, they told Craigslist readers. They need a personal assistant. Yet despite its straightforward beginning, the listing then devolves into what at best could be called a personals ad. Filled with minute quality-of-life problem descriptions, the hopeful future-employers created a laundry list — sometimes literally — of issues they wished their future assistant would solve.
THANKS, CRAIGSLIST. • Officer-involved shooting outside West Oakland BART station sends two to hospital sfgate • Man sought in early-morning sexual assault and robbery sfgate • Commuters sound off on the large pigeon population at Powell St. BART sfgate • 300 people plunge into Ocean Beach sfgate • Recreational+cannabis SFGate • How big waves find Bay Area beaches sfgate • Opening day for legal marijuana sales in Humboldt sfgate • Randy+Bennett+on+Emmett+Naar SFGate • Santa Clara cardboard factory fire sfgate • Building the Golden Gate Bridge sfgate The solution? You, if you're chill and willing to get the job done. Along with a (very long) list of ideal qualities, the job posters get down to the nitty-gritty.
Among typical requirements one would seek in an assistant (drug-free, no criminal record, valid driver's license), were some eccentric items, mostly having to do with the aforementioned dog. Among them: You must be 'able to swim well in the ocean (dog likes swimming; you may need to get him when he goes out too far)' and 'able to protect a dog from being attacked by another dog,' while being 'willing and happy to clean up occasional dog vomit and/or diarrhea.' Poor little guy. Ronnie Spector Siren Rare there. MYSTERY CHICKEN: Among the many qualities that would earn the applicant 'bonus points' (including 'enjoy[s] giving manicures/pedicures'), the would-be employers asked for an email with the subject line '[INSERT YOUR FULL NAME] + [INSERT YOUR WORST QUALITY],' a five-minute video of yourself answering a specific list of questions and links to four personal social media profiles of yourself. Did I cover everything? Twitter, of course, quickly glommed onto the ad, picking apart everything from the details of the employer's lives, the entire 'bonus points' section (for the full ad/list, see below), with most sharing the link to the full ad with an air of incredulity. 'Folks, FOLKS, I think I have found the most bananapants job ad of all time,' started.
'Tag yourself. I'm 'nail polish gets chipped and remains chipped,' one writer on her Twitter account. ('I'm 'I buy fresh flowers but don't have time to trim daily and change the water,' another quipped. 'I'm 'cringer,' another replied.) 'A mom. They need a mom,' one social media user chipped in. 'I love that in San Francisco you can just buy a wife now,' one Twitter user mused.
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'My greatest hope is that either this is a fake ad or that the person who takes this job slowly destroys these people's lives from the inside,' one concluded at the end of a string of tweets on the topic. Is the ad real, and as horrible as people are making it out to seem? Judge for yourself and read the full text of the original ad below. Keep in mind that not all heroes wear capes, sometimes they're just someone's personal assistant.
Good luck to whomever applies. 10: The couple in question answered some questions via email. To read their responses to the ad,.
(Note: The latest version of the ad has since had some revisions made, but can be found. This is a version of the ad that appeared on Craigslist as of noon Wednesday.) Personal Assistant MUST LOVE DOGS - PT/FT, $25-$30/hr (SOMA / south beach) ---Interviewing daily--- Hi and thx for visiting. We're two 30-something executives living in the city with a sweet medium-sized, hypoallergenic dog. Work is crazier than ever which means that we don't have time to maintain our personal lives. We've finally accepted that we need a full-time (or part-time) personal assistant.