[QUOTE=gigi]
same here, and I’m not sure it’s a good idea to mention that you’re female. Why is that relevant, and it sets up a senstivity to these issue which doesn’t have to be there.
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It’s relevant because I don’t want women to be afraid of going to work for some porno guy, it’s way less threatening to work in the adult industry for a woman.
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
All these responses and no one’s asked the big question that I don’t see answered in your ad: what exactly is your business.
I know you said you’re in the adult industry, but exactly does that mean?
Do you host a website with pictures of models? Do you run a mail order catalog full of sex toys? Do you go in your bedroom and videotape yourself nakedly and expect this person to handle all the business aspects of it?
Adult industry can mean a lot of things, and if the ad is hiding that, I’d be extra wary of the adplacer trying to scam me with some strange job.
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Most folks who’ve been around here know exactly what I do, I used to link from my profile but they decided they didn’t care for that. I run a subscription website that features vintage erotica, 1860-1970.
[QUOTE=Stoid]
It’s relevant because I don’t want women to be afraid of going to work for some porno guy, it’s way less threatening to work in the adult industry for a woman.
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But you, yourself, wouldn’t have any gender preference in a potential applicant?
is it retroraunch.com? - it is scary what one can find out about a person just from their email address 
martha’s girls too?
[QUOTE=Epimetheus]
is it retroraunch.com? - it is scary what one can find out about a person just from their email address 
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We broke up with Martha, but I’m hoping we can get back together in the future.
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp]
But you, yourself, wouldn’t have any gender preference in a potential applicant?
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Actually, I’m kinda hoping to score a gay man. I love gay men, we get along FABulously, and I’ve known a lot who tend toward the anal-retentive mother, which is kinda what I need.
[QUOTE=Stoid]
I run a subscription website that features vintage erotica, 1860-1970.
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This is the kind of information that should be in the ad, it might pull in exactly the kind of left-of-center person you want to essentially become your pseudo-partner.
[QUOTE=Stoid]
Most folks who’ve been around here know exactly what I do
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As an aside, I find this sentence a little rude.
[QUOTE=Stoid]
Actually, I’m kinda hoping to score a gay man. I love gay men, we get along FABulously, and I’ve known a lot who tend toward the anal-retentive mother, which is kinda what I need.
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LLOYD!!!
Jodi:
Thank you for taking the time to offer truly helpful suggestions, I will take them into consideration for the final ad.
Clarifications:
[QUOTE=Jodi]
(You say you are “very easygoing” but then say one lie, even “the tiniest fib” – your words – will get the person fired. That is not easygoing.)
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I did/would make clear that I am generally easygoing, but here are the exceptions to that rule. The honesty thing is really the only one that comes to mind, and in that respect I’m a total hardass without apology.
[QUOTE=Jodi]
Keep in mind that some things that may look like benefits to you may not read that way to candidates. Not everyone thinks the chance to work at home is such a great opportunity that they would accept a lower salary to do it. Not everyone thinks not having to come to work some days (because “sometimes there will be nothing to do”) is a plus either. So be careful about lowering the salary in light of some “benefits” that may not be considered quite so beneficial.
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Point taken, but since it IS considered a benefit by some people, it can definitely compensate for other things that aren’t so great, like starting salary perhaps.
Then again, maybe this is one area where my assistant should be less like me. And obviously I don’t want someone who is so enamored of the idea of flexibility because they hate work entirely and can’t wait to bail out every day, that blows.
It’s gonna be interesting finding my dream date.
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
As an aside, I find this sentence a little rude.
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Wow. Then it’s a really good thing YOU won’t be applying for the position…jeez. All it means is that people who’ve been around a long time know what I do, I forget that I actually haven’t been around much in the last 3 years or so and there are new kids on the block.
You sound like a motherfucking batshit crazy lunatic from that ad. And it reads exactly like your personal ad! It’s full of threats and really off-putting personal information. Maybe you can find some poor fool to fill both this position and the one as your boyfriend? The accent thing is a bit irritating. Of course I’m only saying that because I have a southern accent and am afraid it will make people think me uneducated. Also its odd you would require an executive assistant to be a non-smoker. How is that even relevant. Not all smokers are going to light up in your home. Some of us weren’t raised in barns like filthy animals.
And some of us smoke Menthols!
[QUOTE=Stoid]
Wow. Then it’s a really good thing YOU won’t be applying for the position…jeez. All it means is that people who’ve been around a long time know what I do, I forget that I actually haven’t been around much in the last 3 years or so and there are new kids on the block.
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This is exactly what I’m talking about. I don’t read every thread around here, but as you can see from my post count, I’ve been here for four years. I’m not a “new kid on the block” by any means.
So why should you be able to tsk tsk me because I don’t know you’re a vintage pornographer? It’s condescending and if that little bit of criticism can push your buttons, I feel really bad for the sap who ends up taking your job.
[QUOTE=msmith537]
LLOYD!!!
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Ummm. I don’t know what this means.
[QUOTE=Justin_Bailey]
So why should you be able to tsk tsk me because I don’t know you’re a vintage pornographer? It’s condescending and if that little bit of criticism can push your buttons, I feel really bad for the sap who ends up taking your job.
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Except you inferred the tsking, I didn’t imply it, not my buttons.
[QUOTE=Stoid]
Actually, I’m kinda hoping to score a gay man. I love gay men, we get along FABulously, and I’ve known a lot who tend toward the anal-retentive mother, which is kinda what I need.
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I guess you’re a small business where antidiscrimination laws don’t apply?? Don’t worry about running an ad; if you know what you want you’ll find someone through another connection/word of mouth.
If you do go the ad route, echoing Jodi’s synopsis of what the ad should look like, there’s no reason to mention your gender or even the business. You get the applicants and then do a phone screen where they become aware that you are the owner, what kind of business it is, expectations, even salary range. This weeds out whoever doesn’t meet the more general needs, lets them know they don’t want it, and leaves you with the smaller applicant pool to actually meet.
[QUOTE=gigi]
I guess you’re a small business where antidiscrimination laws don’t apply?? Don’t worry about running an ad; if you know what you want you’ll find someone through another connection/word of mouth.
If you do go the ad route, echoing Jodi’s synopsis of what the ad should look like, there’s no reason to mention your gender or even the business. You get the applicants and then do a phone screen where they become aware that you are the owner, what kind of business it is, expectations, even salary range. This weeds out whoever doesn’t meet the more general needs, lets them know they don’t want it, and leaves you with the smaller applicant pool to actually meet.
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Well, I do want to screen out as much as possible before phone calls. Interviewing is time consuming, even in brief phone calls. If there are simple ways to scrape away chunks of applicants I’m all for it.
It’s a balance: I don’t want to make the job sound so appealing that I’m drowning in applications, 75% of which are dead in the water, but I don’t want to scare away the person I’m really looking for, either.
I’ve advertised jobs for 20 years, working for myself and others. It’s kinda like dating, there’s a big segment of the population that will answer almost any ad that sounds remotely reasonable, and that’s a big time suck.
LIKE THIS PLACE…ack… it’s like goddamn drugs and I took just a little hit…
[QUOTE=gigi]
I guess you’re a small business where antidiscrimination laws don’t apply??
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Oh, and I’m not ruling out anyone. Having a hope doesn’t mean I’m giving the boot to anyone that doesn’t fit that hope. I’m only human and being an old faghag, I can hope for my gay!
minimum – 100k.
When do I start?
Oops, do I have to move to LA?
Yes? 250K.
When do I start?
Strange as it may seem, I suggest you first hire Jodi to write your ad for you! What a beautifully concise and appropriate summation of the needed work… kudos!