FTR, Tokyo, I thought we had a Doper named Stout? I just assumed you confused the two.
But then I also got distracted imagining stouts. You know, Guiness, ESB, etc. Mmmmmmmm stouts…
I used to love drinking stouts. Sure as hell gives you a better buzz than green tea, my drink of choice now.
Don’t feel bad buddy. I grew up in the 50s/60s and have the same problem. My mother had been a high school English teacher, and it was like living with an unabridged dictionary. Hell I had spell check in 1955, I called her mommy.
My daughter is almost as good.
Me? The spelling gene skipped a generation.
If I can get it close enough for spell check to find it, I consider it a victory.
It probably doesn’t help that I mispronounced a lot of words growing up. (Did you know that there was a “t” at the end of “acrosst” or that lemon and limb has share the same vowel sound?) My sister always jokes that it’s a wonder I learned Japanese when I can’t speak English.
I used to find it faster to look up the corresponding word in a Japanese-English dictionary and get the English word from there, rather than search in an English dictionary. The second fastest was looking up a synonym in a thesaurus and going from there.
Between spell checkers and Google’s suggestions for words, I can get by much easier these days.
A stout is also good for you. Taken in moderation, of course! 
If this post is any indication of how you take things in life, I wouldn’t consider you the ideal boss in a million years.
I wouldn’t do that job for a penny less than $150,000 a year, and in L.A. I’d need a quarter of a million.
Doing a job that amounts to making up for a boss’s personal deficiencies never turns out well. Getting “enmeshed in someone’s personal business” is not what employees are supposed to do and will unquestionably result in ongoing, endless conflict and misunderstanding over what the role actually is. My wife’s CEO sounds exactly like the person who wrote that ad and you’d be insane to work for him at any price.
Well, your price is a quarter mil. Seems reasonable – and is exactly the price I quoted in post #79. If you can stick it out for a while, you have a nice financial cushion to bail out onto.
I might consider it for less if I didn’t have to give up a good job, sell my house and relocate, etc., to take it. I would consider this a high-risk job, because the OP might take sudden offense at some small thing and fire my ass.
So I would insist on one more thing – a minimum 2 year contract, that would guarantee that pay rate unless I did some form of fraud or malfeasance that is proven in court.
I deliberately wrote my post without reading the rest of the thread.
Now I know $250,000 wouldn’t be enough. “Laid back,” my ass. It’d be hell. I’d want a five-year guaranteed deal, with a buyout of 50% of remaining contract owed, moving expenses paid for and six weeks of vacation a year.
I would advertise it as a PA or maybe an Executive Assistant. On the Interview process I would deal with how the job differs from these - “Well it is a bit different than the traditional PA/ExecSec job”.
I would be clear that the salary is negotiable but that you were looking to pay in the mid-50’s.
I would make sure that I could document to outsiders that not having a “strong accent of any kind” is a requirement of this job. (which I THINK I know what you mean but is a nonsensical requirement - you , me, Bush and QE2 all have accents, as has been suggested “clear speaking voice”,“fluent in English”, are phrases you might consider. You may just want to bag this line altogether, unless you have some reason to think this is a particularly attractive job to the heavily accented, and screen for this on the interview)
I revert back to my post that nothing in the ad should be changed. Caveat emptor.
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Justin_Bailey, she posted about her website somewhere, sometime (probably in an archived thread) because I did know.
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Stoid, the number 1 thing I thought was missing was a listing of the businesses with which the person would be involved. I didn’t find it as horrible as many people here have, but I think it could do with some editing since, as I think is clear, it didn’t come across the way you meant it to.
If you had read the whole thread you would have noticed that the last time she mentioned her job was nearly three years ago.
It also isn’t relevant because this thread is specifically about what we think of her job posting. And I said her posting wasn’t clear on what kind of business she runs.
I still don’t understand what her posting history has to do with that criticism as it’s the only response Stoid seems to give to my criticism.
All I was saying is that she was correct in assuming that many of the people who have been here for longer than three years know what she was talking about. I agree with you about it being unclear in the ad, as I mentioned above.
Well I knew about your website, Stoid, only because someone mentioned it to me when the Mods here were giving me a hard time about mine. Honestly though, I think you are a little more known around here for being a bit touchy, as opposed to being laid back or the owner of retroraunch.
Anyway, Jodi gave good advice, but the most important thing is to break up the job responsibilities. Maybe your sister was willing to do it but any stranger with an ounce of self esteem is not going to run your PR campaign then go fetch kibble for you. Would YOU take a job like that?
Right off the bat I want to rewrite your ad.
Make 1-800-STOID a voice-mail only number and listen to the messages. This is where you rule out anyone who doesn’t speak well or who has an accent you don’t like, or who is clueless and didn’t give their name and call-back number. For the ones who pass, you call them back and do another mini-screening where you explain a little more about your business and then, if they pass, ask them to send a resume (maybe this is where you ask for salary requirements). Most of the stuff in your so-called ad is stuff that could be covered in the interview. If at all.
“Oscar needs Felix” is cute but frankly, who thinks of themselves as Felix? And who wants to work out of a home inhabited by Oscar? Based on that ad I would feel like I was handing over my entire life, and I would charge a lot for that. More than you can afford, I’m pretty sure.
Actually, I’m known for pissing people off, especially touchy people. The whole touchiness thing being assigned to me is a twilight zone development in this particular thread that remains a puzzle.
Hilarity: Excellent ad. As I believe I mentioned somewhere along the way, the original in the OP was straight outta my head to paper, it was never gonna be the actual ad. it was more about: this is what the real situation is, what is it worth?
Good idea about the voicemail, too.
No offense, Stoid, but you seem to be the touchy one here. Reading insults where none were intended, claiming that a single “little lie” is enough to fire someone? That’s not “easy going”, or “non-touchy”.
And if people are constantly misunderstanding you, perhaps it’s not then.
Oh, my gods. This is too hilarious, I can’t believe I missed this thread before! I totally thought the punchline was, “Nah, this is just how a personal ad seeking a husband would look if bitches just told the truth!” :eek: 
Seriously! Check it out:
Uh-huh.
Riiiiiiight.
A marriage-material mutlitasker, if you will.
Sit around nekkid reading the newspaper, why doncha?
I get it, she’s been burned by lying exes…
I mean, it just all works…
See? Marriage!
Keeper? Is that some new BSDM code?
Stoid, you’re not looking for an employee, you’re looking for a husband. Those cost a lot more than money.