I thought it was the region in Spain she’s from??
As has been mentioned, the job description isn’t nearly clear enough in this ad. Perhaps you could ask your sister to write up a job description for you, since she’s filled the role in the past? It might really help your potential applicants understand the job expectations.
Agree 100%.
Stoid, unless you’ve made many posts about how you’re fat (and even then, it could have been a mistake for him to ironically make a typo relating to that), it’s absurd to say that he must have meant it because “no one types UT for ID.” I type the entirely wrong word ALL the time. Often not even close to the right word. I don’t know why but it happens.
I’d hate to think that such responses to someone’s mistake are the norm for you; but if it is, mark me down for “I wouldn’t touch that job for a penny less than $150,000, PLUS overtime over 35 hours, double-time on weekends and after 5:30 PM.”
Jodi, I am surprised at you! You’re usually so level-headed. Too much job advice on the brain, eh? 
You have, as they say, struck the nail on the head precisely and driven it all the way in with one blow.
Not to mention that Tokyo had this to say to me 3 days ago in response to my remark about how fortunate I have been, in spite of my obesity and age, to have young, slim lovers:
He opened from an attack position in the other thread, he opened from an attack position in this one. Were that not the case, I would have readily assumed it was an error. As it is…not likely.
Not at all, in fact I generally let things slide off my back. I let this one slide to the degree that I didn’t get upset about it, but I’m not going to pretend it was something else, either.
Stoid, I’d do it for $50-60K in La-la land. I am not offering as my Mac skills are only marginal. 
Of course, I love 70’s porn and was even somewhat in the Porn business in the 70’s. Went to parties up in the 'Hills, etc.
If the % was decent, I would start with less, but that is what I’d expect to gross with profit sharing.
Hey, like I said, it was a mistake, and an embarrassing one at that. But if she wants to continue claiming that she knows me better than me, whatever.
For my other comments, the Pit is the Pit.
It’s from the HBO TV series Entourage. One of the characters is a high strung super-agressive ranting Hollywood agent named Ari Gold (played by Jeremy Piven). He is unabashedly loud, arrogant, abusive, racist, misogynistic, sexist and essentially jerkish in every possible way. Ari has a gay, Asian personal assistant named Lloyd who is very competant and loyal to him. Whenever something is going wrong or Ari just gets worked up, he tends to bellow Lloyd’s name.
Here’s an example.
As a suggestion, I would then downplay or remove statements from your ad like:
"some days there may be almost nothing to do, especially after we’ve been working together for awhile and things are more under control. On those days you won’t be required to be here at all. Many things I am perfectly happy to have you do from home… "
just say
“flexible work environment with potential to work from home”.
I wouldn’t assume that. Many people focus on topics, not specific individuals and there are a lot of posters on this board. I’ve been here probably 6 years and I couldn’t tell you anything about anyone.
Also, you are clearly NOT easygoing by any accepted definition of the term. This is plainly evident by not only the statements in your ad about honesty but this entire exchange regading TokyoPlayer’s alleged typo.
Another suggestion is that a sales background might not be the best skillset for what you want. It’s sounds like you need someone who’s more of a project manager than a salesman. Sales people tend to be very good at creating an illusion of stuff getting done, however they tend to be bad at actually getting stuff done.
Thanks for the fillin.
Okay (looks around in confusion smiley) What difference does it make? It was a completely emotion-free remark, you know? There was nothing in it, around it, beside it or on top of it. It was merely an observation from my perspective, since there was a time when my website was discussed. Many times, actually, and discussed again when they decided to remove the link, and I have been referred to as a pornographer, etc. Since my work has a certain notoriety to it, it tends to be talked about more than most Doper jobs and has been. But I forgot that it was MY perspective and that I hadn’t been around for awhile and the cast of characters change. Completely neutral stuff, you know?
Yeah, well, may I respectfully suggest that you are not the arbiter of all accepted definitions, not to mention the fact that my exchange with Tokyo has been pretty mild, ya know. (I mean the actual exchange, not all the things people are projecting onto it, that I have no control over.) All I did was decline to believe his claim of innocent mistake, not because I offend easily and I’m always looking for a new excuse to be offended, but because in our brief and limited interactions, he had been more rude than not, and had made extremely unpleasant remarks to me directly referencing my size. He has, quite clearly, failed to earn the benefit of the doubt, so I declined to give it to him. I didn’t freak out, I wasn’t crappy in return, I didn’t burst into tears…nothing. I simply did not accept his claim that it was merely a boo-boo, that’s the beginning and end of it. I’d call that pretty easygoing. Especially since over here in my actual life/head/emotions, I’m really not in any way undone about it. I don’t know this guy, if he chooses to behave this way and speak like this, it really doesn’t have anything to do with me so I’m not going to get uptight about it. But that doesn’t mean I’m going to pretend I buy that it was unintentional either.
Man, I didn’t know one had to COMPLETE one’s edit in five minutes, I thought ya only had to hit the edit BUTTON. BOO!
I was going to alter my “ya knows” - that I’m starting to use so many in my own writing is disturbing to me…YA KNOW?
I think people are harping on these two things because they show that you clearly are not the most sensible person in the world and that you are definitely NOT easygoing. There’s probably a little spillover from your dating Pit as well, as that whole thread just baffled me.
You asked for help, and a few of the criticisms you’ve got gotten seem to really strike a nerve. I’m sure no one means to be mean, but the ad makes the job seem like a lot of work and your attitude in this thread makes me think a big salary would be needed to take it on.
Sigh… where the hell is Rod Serling? I know he’s lurking somewhere…
Clearly I was mistaken :rolleyes:
I’m not dyslexic, but have my own reading problems. I taught myself to read and would skip over words I didn’t know, learning to recognize words by sight, rather than sound. While it’s not the best way to do things, it’s a life-long ingrained habit which I’ve tried to shake but haven’t been able to. Flunked spelling as well. Spending a lot of my day in a foreign language doesn’t help either.
I don’t remember the names of most of the Dopers, like that Autowhatzhisname who likes ladles. I still can’t spell ladles the first time through, having to spell it out “ladels” and then see that something doesn’t look right. It doesn’t matter that I’ve used for a dozen times since Auto popularized it, I still don’t get it right the first time.
Thank god for spell check, but I still make my than my share of mistakes.
I could have explained this earlier, but I was enjoying the show too much. This explanation is more for the others, since I don’t want to ruin how much fun you’re having with it. I may be rude at times, and if we ever mix it up in the Pit, I wouldn’t have any problems using real insults, and I’m sure that you could do the same. Since you’re calling me a liar, I’m sure that neither of us will forget each other’s names again soon.
Naturally, once can assume that such as story could be made up, but since this is the Net, pretty much anything could be. However, you can check out this post in the infamous Sheep thread.
And then my embarrassed follow-up, having to correct myself on Hal’s name.
This was my thought too…There are very specific standards you have to meet to make someone salary and your job description doesnt seem to match that.
I wanted to make my nephew…who was working for me as an assistant manager, salaried and couldn’t do it legally. I was salaried at my last job before I opened my busines, and after I left someone filed a class action suit and I got a big check in the mail because of it…cost the company millions. I know someone else who worked salary for a company, got fired, and demanded backpay (and got it). You may think its no big deal if you are just talking about one employee but if things go south you can wind up in a lot of trouble.
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I could, but I wouldn’t. I don’t get much satisfaction or pleasure from personally insulting individual posters, even if they behave unpleasantly. If I find I just can’t stand a particular person, I just stop interacting with them. Cuz really, I honestly believe and live by what I said in the thread where we met: what people do is about themselves, not others (with rare exceptions and I only say that because I have to, I can’t actually come up with any right now). If someone is rude to me, it’s about them, not me. If someone is downright vicious to me (and believe me, they have been!) it’s still not about me, in fact, the more intensity behind the rudeness, the less it’s about me, especially in this context (being a public message board where people who don’t know each other from Adam are communicating about a million different things entirely in writing, which is a very, very limited form of communication and leaves enormous room for interpretation. See any three actors play Hamlet if you doubt me.)
I’m not claiming that I don’t, that we all don’t say things that piss each other off a little, or annoy, or delight. We are not islands, after all. I am saying basically these two things:
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If anyone has a really meaningful (deep, intense, major, significant) emotional response to something someone, anyone, writes on a public message board, even if it is directed straight at the person who is reacting, the only thing that the writer did was push a button or pluck a string or otherwise activate an existing issue within the person reacting, they are not the true cause of the real feeling, (if I am making the distinction clear, which I may not be it’s late and my contacts are bugging me). In other words, the reaction, the feelings, are not about the poster, they are about the reader, whether the feelings are good or bad.
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We are all responsible for our own actions, and it is really our own actions, more than anyone else’s (generally speaking) that determine how we feel. If I indulged any impulses I might have to get shitty with someone, it would make me feel badly about myself…not because I think I have the power to geninely harm someone else and i would have guilt about doing such harm, because I don’t. I would just feel gross about my own behavior, period.
I have stumbled once or twice, but really only once or twice. There’s just no payoff in it for me.
And having explained all that, let me say as well: it’s a virtual certainty that I would never have brought it up had someone else not done so first, and that was the context in which I did bring it up. I hadn’t even noticed it, I don’t think. If it was intentional, it rates about a 1 on the Insult Stoid About Her Weight scale. I could show you stuff people have said that would curl your hair and merely leaves me utterly confused about why people would take the time to type such things out and how doing so makes them feel good about themselves. (And of course, if saying ugly things to me about my weight is intended to do me damage -pretty safe to say- doesn’t it seem a good bet I’d avoid bringing it up in the first place?
Which brings me back to: it’s about them, not me.
Understandable you would see it that way, but for the record, I do not define “liar” as someone who, shall we say, fails to step up and own the truth one time, for whatever reason. I might say that person lied or told a lie or isn’t being honest, but none of those things mean I am calling such a person a liar, tht’s assigning a whole identity based on one incident. That would make everyone who ever drew breath and spoke words liars. If I were to call someone a liar, it would mean I viewed that person as someone who lies frequently, casually, comfortably, a person who lies so easily that they are simply not ever to be trusted . I have no way of knowing one way or another if that describes you, but I’m giong to assume that it doesn’t, because I always start from that assumption, even when I believe or actually know that someone has been less than completely truthful with me once. (Which doesn’t mean I like it, as I have indicated elsewhere in the thread, and again, who is doing the talking and what they are being less than honest about makes a big difference. If you, Joe Nobody on the Dope, lies [or not, I have only my belief based on limited interaction, no hard evidence] about whether you intended to be insulting toward me or not, it means absolutely nothing at all in my life. If someone who works for me lies about anything, especially knowing how I feel about it, that is something else entirely.)
All to say: I didn’t call you a liar.
As for the rest, well, you’e certainly made a case, and I’m sure you feel much better now, and that’s a [Martha] Good Thing [/Martha].
You refused to accept my statement and specifically stated it was intentional after I said it was an accident. So you’re saying I’m lying. Does it follow that I’m not a liar if I’m lying? Hell if I know.
Don’t mean a damn to me because I was explaining myself. I never felt bad that I made a stupid type, and explaing it actually cut down on some of the fun. I did want other people who do know me to know why the mistake happens.
Stoid, with every post you are reducing the number of Dopers who’d be willing to work for you. You say you’re easy-going but you bristle at every comment that even suggests criticism – in this thread and others.
You simply, strongly, that Tokyoplayer is a liar. Yet you state that even one lie on the job, no matter how minor, is grounds for instant dismissal. It’s pretty clear you don’t have the same understanding of the English language as most of the rest of us. I would not trust you to determine what constitutes a lie.
Between your posts here and in the the Vibrator condom in the Pit, I wouldn’t even consider working for you. And I really had no idea who you were before, these two threads are enough.
After reading this paragraph, I’m willing to believe “typo.” 
Hehe.
Personally, I don’t think the job sounds that bad. It’s very similar to what I do now for my boss (who is a perfectly delightful person to work with - just terribly scattered sometimes, because she juggles so many different things) except for the Mac use and the sales stuff. I’m purely administrative.
I find it surprising that people seem to be so negative towards this job. Sounds quite interesting to me! Of course, I don’t have the skills you want and I’m in the wrong country, but surely in a place the size of LA you’re going to find someone that does fit the bill.
I think one thing you should consider is the possibility that the wage, while starting at $1k-ish a week, should jump dramatically as soon as your profit line goes up.
Of course, you may well have already said this in the thread but since I’m flying out of the country tomorrow on holidays I’ve gotta quit the Dope now and go tidy up loose ends. (Seeya soon, USA!)
- BWP
:smack: Ah, shit. At the risk of sounding like a whinny brat that blames everything on his childhood; my elementary school went through a phase (early 70s) where we all taught ourselves a lot of the subjects through workbooks. The idea was that kids would learn better if they worked at their own pace. My pace involved only doing what I wanted and spelling didn’t make the short list.
Worse, because my spelling was so bad, I had to make my handwriting even worse so that teachers couldn’t read the spelling mistakes.
You guys wouldn’t believe how hard I have to work at writing.