MARKETING MASCOT $100/day
Think Disney character or Chick-Fil-A cow)
Premier apartment community seeks a personality for their mascot. This is a PROFESSIONAL grade costume, so you will be anonymous. Ice pack vest and fan inside costume, breaks every hour.
Shifts are 10-2 and 3-7. email me at peggy@csi4jobs.com with Mascot in the subject line.

5/23/2014 9:22:21 AM

Wear t shirt, shorts and sneakers and a big-ass, hot costume

5/23/2014 6:35:12 PM

I'm interested, but I'm morbidly obese. How hot exactly does it get in these costumes??

5/23/2014 7:18:32 PM

Is this for amberwood because that guy looks like a total cheesedick

5/23/2014 9:28:19 PM

$12.50 an hour isn't bad to get high as fuck and just dance around

5/23/2014 11:18:35 PM

If you required an employee to wear anything other than a t shirt, shorts and sneakers for this job you would be a giant dickbag, don't act like that's a selling point.

5/24/2014 12:42:52 AM

^this

5/27/2014 1:14:29 PM

An apartment over here in Carrboro does this shit daily. I can't imagine that it gets any business for them. Its supposed to be a higher end complex catering to students. Nothing says intelligent like a fucking stoner dancing in a tiger outfit around the corner from the complex.

5/28/2014 6:22:31 AM

SUMMER JOB. FUN! LISTEN TO MUSIC ALL DAY (while you suck human excrement out of port-a-shitters for 8 hours a day)

5/28/2014 10:26:52 AM

i used to dress in costumes like this for my first high school job. it sucked. it was so damn hot.

5/28/2014 10:34:05 AM

i was the school mascot one year when i was in grade school

definitely NOT a professional grade costume...i looked like i had been pushed into the pool when i took it off

5/29/2014 2:06:30 PM

Quote :

"Ice pack vest and fan inside costume, breaks every hour. "

The fan breaks every hour?

5/29/2014 11:04:40 PM

Quote :

"PROFESSIONAL grade costume"

5/30/2014 11:25:07 AM

I'm going to take this job and then hire somebody else to do it for $80/day. That's $20/day pure profit.

5/30/2014 11:49:28 AM

DID YOU FIND IT, PEGGY?

5/30/2014 11:49:51 AM

I realize this thread is about Summer job. FUN! Wear t shirt, shorts and sneakers.... which I am not. Hear me out, maybe I can offer some insight.

I am in outside sales, which is currently salary+commission, but will move into straight commission starting at the beginning of July 2010. I have been in this position since July 2009. I have competition from several direct manufacturing sales reps, large distributors, and local distributors. Here are the advantages and disadvantages of each:

Direct Advantages: Immediate knowledge of new technology, no middle man mark up, one shipping bill (paid by manufacturer or buyer of goods), access to larger range of non-commodity items, control inventory, have access to many distributors that can effectively sell their goods which increases market share, and set prices of commodity they manufacture.

Direct disadvantages: Typically have 1-3 sales reps per region (i.e. southeast, mid-atlantic, northeast, etc.) limiting the number of accounts they can successfully manage/cold-call, lack physical customer service or physical technical service available to or affordable for smaller users or altogether, are sometimes not trustworthy because they will go in behind their distributors that sell their commodity to one account in large quantities (i.e. they missed a big account, and have found out about it through a distributor selling their particular product) which leads to the distributor not selling their product anymore, have too many distributors selling the product ultimately driving the set price down through deviations, possibly rely on distributors to actually sell the product, and competition from other direct sources.

Large distributor advantages: have access to other commodities that go hand in hand with other manufacturers (poor example- grocery stores sell milk as well as cereal), get direct pricing, many locations regionally or nationally easing the shipping burden of buyers with multiple locations, personal service either customer or technical, many sales reps that are able to cover a broader territory, access to multiple manufacturers of the same commodity allowing to keep prices in check, service programs that smaller companies can't offer and direct providers can't match in price or value, and experts of many many commodities as opposed to one or a few.

Large distributor disadvantages: smaller local distributors creating price wars (think Michael Scott Paper Co vs Dunder-Mifflin), direct mfg's going in behind and stealing business, limited access to all of the mfg's (you won't find Harris Teeter name brands in Food Lion and visa versa), can't truly set prices because it's based on both supply and demand, territory management, and tough growth prospects in slower economies (this is true for direct as well really)

Local distributor advantages: Typically a good ol' boy setting where the seller and the buyer know each other for years (this does happen at all levels, but mostly at the local level), local folks are right down the street and can be used in emergencies, if the local guy buys at high enough volumes then there is no shipping charge to the end user, and access to both direct mfg's and large distributors.

Local distributor disadvantages: easily beaten in price, array of commodities, array of technology, lack of trained staff, low cash flow, etc etc etc.

This is what I have noticed in my six months, I am sure there are plenty more that need mentioning. The way I am setting myself apart as a sales person is this: I go after the big accounts right now while I am new. The big accounts, if I land them, will take care of me while I am new and building a customer base. The money made off of those allows me to focus free time on smaller accounts that get me higher margins. I build up big accounts, I would like to have 5-10 of these, then get 20-30 medium accounts. If I lose 1 or 2 big accounts, the 20-30 medium accounts keep me afloat while I go after new big accounts. I don't really waste time on small accounts simply because they basically pay for breakfast or something really small.

I will say this, if you can't get a big account in the first 6-8 months (assuming you have cash flow that you can ride this long) you could be in a world of trouble. If you can get one, it will really make going after the others a lot more enjoyable and less stressful. It's simply just very exhausting wasting any time on anything other than big accounts in the very beginning. You work just as hard on the medium sized accounts and see 1/3 to 1/36 of the money in my situation.

If you have any other questions, you can PM me. I hope this helps in the slightest!

5/30/2014 11:56:15 AM

^^I don't know the answer to your question, but I have a very similar question and I'm going to semi-hijack the thread to pose it here. I imagine if someone knows the answer to your question, he/she would know the answer to mine as well.

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My employer's out-of-pocket cost for insurance premiums for me, wife, and kid amounts to around $230 per month for a high-deductible HPSP plan (and employer contributes around $1300 to the HSA). My wife's employer essentially has that same plan, but has 0 premiums, and they contribute $3000 per year. We've been on her plan for the last year, but blew through what was in the HSA pretty quickly as she's on some pricey diabetes medications, and mine are about $100 per month.

If she signs up for the same family coverage plan, and I sign up for just the individual plan, i'm looking at about $30 per month for the premium, and the same contribution to my HSA. The HSA contribution alone more than covers my premium + the cost of my meds.

Question is whether that's legit to do? If I went to the doctor, I'd still give them my wife's insurance card so all of our health services would contribute to the same family deductible. I would just use my HSA debit card to pay for stuff and that's about it. I see nothing in the materials that state that i can't enroll if i'm enrolled in a spouse's health plan.

5/30/2014 12:06:41 PM