Looking for a Butler to keep the cooking and cleaning staff in line. I may have to get rid of my chauffeur so they may need to fill in as well. How much are you guys paying for your English-accented butlers?

12/8/2014 4:59:47 PM

Bulter

12/8/2014 5:00:05 PM

Im gonna have to fire my social media person for letting that through

12/8/2014 5:01:32 PM

I need a bloody man servant

12/8/2014 5:02:05 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoda_Bulter

12/8/2014 5:14:46 PM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Yeats

I'm Krallum and I approved this message.

[Edited on December 8, 2014 at 6:12 PM. Reason : How about that W E B dubois wasn't he a great writer?]

12/8/2014 6:12:28 PM

English-accented?



Nah, sorry, I can't help you. Savage.

12/8/2014 6:23:52 PM

Do you need a butler to help you learn to spell?

I am thinking perhaps like an Alfred to a Batman who cannot spell.

12/8/2014 8:15:18 PM

yes

12/8/2014 9:21:04 PM

It amuses me to no end that the proper verb for the services performed by a butler is "to buttle".

12/9/2014 12:44:39 AM

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"Bulter"

12/9/2014 1:21:01 AM

It amuses me to no end that the proper verb for the services performed by a bulter is "to bult".

12/9/2014 1:03:38 PM

Thank you for saying "English-accented" and not "British-accented". It is an annoyance when people assume Britain = England.

12/9/2014 1:39:34 PM

12/9/2014 1:44:23 PM

^^what about "wanker-accented"?

12/9/2014 1:47:57 PM

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"Personal Assistant (Durham)"

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"I am a successful entrepreneur who lives in Chapel Hill and works in Durham. I seek to hire a fourth personal assistant to perform both personal and office tasks. (The first three assistants are working out quite well.) You would work about 15 hours a week on household tasks, and the rest of the time would be spent on professional and personal tasks at the office. I am looking for someone who can work at least 40 hours a week or more, with overtime paid for more than 40 hours. My business is lead generation for plaintiffs' law firms, with a focus on medical device and pharmaceutical cases. It's essential that you have good office skills and excellent attention to detail. I have two openings. The first is for someone to work M-F and the second is for someone to work on the weekends. (The weekend job is not full-time.) You can work (i) every weekday (Monday through Friday full-time), (ii) on the weekends (Saturday and Sunday part-time), or (iii) seven days a week, whichever you prefer. Part of the job is client intake, asking clients questions about their case. No legal or intake experience is required. Dress code is casual and we have an informal structure, but we take professionalism very seriously. Currently we have six people in our office: Myself My sister (B.A., Williams College, M.B.A., Yale School of Management) Senior software architect (A.B., Harvard College, graduate studies in computer science at UNC) Senior software developer (B.A., Columbia University) Attorney (J.D., Duke Law School) Three assistants/paralegals We are raising several million dollars in additional capital, and when we do, we will be hiring approximately 10 additional people. Your household duties would include the following tasks: Light cooking Making breakfast each morning Housecleaning Washing clothes Shopping Running errands Personal tasks include: Organizing my social events In some cases, attending social events Office duties include: Complex word processing (I will expect you to eventually master some of the complex features of Microsoft Word) Organizing papers and receipts Finding information on the Internet and entering it into a database Placing telephone calls for me Ordering office supplies Setting up appointments and making telephone calls Scanning documents and then classifying them Transcribing dictation (it's not important that you know stenography, this is all electronic) Legal intake tasks include: When a lead arrives, entering it in our database. Calling the prospective client and asking her or him various questions, using an intake form I have developed. Calling (sometimes repeatedly) propsects who have not returned our telephone calls Preparing a client engagement form and a HIPAA authorization form, using our standard forms Ordering medical records Collecting and organizing information from the client For the legal tasks, no legal experience is necessary. You do need to be smart, eager to learn, organized, and good with computers. Clients are sometimes difficult to reach and sometimes you have to be persistent. Sometimes prospective clients will ask you to call them after hours, and if so, you will need to do so, but you don't of course have to do so from the office. In other words, you need to be flexible, accessible, and easy to reach. Landing clients is how I make money. I am exceptionally knowledgeable about computers, having programmed in at least 20 computer programming languages, having worked as a very senior software engineer at a major computer company, and having held a research fellowship at Harvard in computer science. I realize that it is quite possible that are not an expert in computers but I am looking for an assistant who very much wants to learn more about computers and to become really good at using them. In order to be hired, it's essential that you already have a reasonably good level of computer expertise. You will be expected to learn and follow David Allen's Getting Things Done methodology. Once you master David's methodology, it will change your life. Requirements: It's essential that you are really smart. It's amazing how many dumb people there are in this world. High level of intellectual curiosity Strong desire to learn and to grow It's essential that you have a very high level of dependability and personal responsibility Excellent attention to detail Reasonable level of education Excellent English skills Extroverted outgoing personality Excellent conversationalist, you need to make clients comfortable on the phone Good computer skills, particularly with Microsoft Office and Word in particular You must be comfortable doing personal tasks. Car in good working order Easy to read handwriting (since you will manually be filling my intake form) You must not smoke cigarettes. If you are interested, please send me: Your full name How old are you All of your telephone numbers Which is the best telephone number to call you on? Your email address Are you a smoker? Are you applying for the M-F position or the weekend position? Are you a morning or evening person? For the M-F position, are you able to arrive at my Chapel Hill apartment every morning at 7:30 am? For the weekend position, are you able to arrive at my Chapel Hill apartment every morning at 8:30 am? How many hours a week do you want to work? Are you able to work overtime when needed? What times are you not available? How many hours a week of overtime can you provide? Where do you live? How long would your commute to Chapel Hill be? (If you live too far from Chapel Hill, then it really doesn't make sense for you to take this job.) Do you have a car in good working order? What else is going on in your life? Your family situation. Do you have kids? Are you in school (part-time or full-time)? Brief description of your computer skills How well do you know Microsoft Office? How well do you know Microsoft Word? Do you know how to program any programming languages? Do you know HTML, CSS and/or WordPress? How much do you enjoy cleaning? Please describe how good you are at attention to detail Do you have any medical or psychological issues that would affect your attention to detail (e.g., you have ADD or ADHD) How much of a perfectionist are you? How good are you at organizing? Resume Copies of transcripts for any colleges or graduate schools you have attended (if you don't have them easily available, go ahead and apply anyway) Writing samples if you have them Are you on Facebook? If so, your Facebook profile link Are you on LinkedIn? If so, your LinkedIn profile link Several photos (please send the photos, rather than refer me to a link) Do you live permanently in the Triangle, or is your permanent residence elsewhere? Tell me about your travel plans during the next six months. How soon can you start? Anything else you want to tell me How much per hour are you looking for? (Please state an exact amount, rather than making me guess.) My need is immediate. When you respond, please answer all of the questions asked above. When you respond, please include the questions (including the number) in your email, and then write your answer after the question. By doing so, you make it easier for me to understand which question you are answering. A few years ago, when I ran a similar ad, many people felt they had to respond right away by sending a short message from their mobile phone. It is not necessary to do this. Instead, it is better to simply wait until you are at a real computer and then you will be able to answer all of the questions properly. Although I am looking to hire someone now, it is not necessary to rush that much."

[Edited on December 9, 2014 at 2:04 PM. Reason : http://raleigh.craigslist.org/ofc/4778526543.html]

12/9/2014 2:04:21 PM

must not troll

12/9/2014 2:27:20 PM

I know I really wanna contact that dude

12/10/2014 11:20:11 AM

Pretty sure it's illegal to ask like half of the questions on that list

12/10/2014 12:07:00 PM

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"Thank you for saying "English-accented" and not "British-accented". It is an annoyance when people assume Britain = England."

huh never thought about it that way... i've always heard/used the term "british accent" but of course I know that people in england speak differently than people in scotland, etc. (not to mention the many types of "english accents")

Should "American accent" be more properly stated as "United States accent?"

12/10/2014 12:11:02 PM