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January 23, 2008

Who? Who? Who Will You Let Abuse You 15 to 20 Hours Per Week?

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Danielle Steele, Vanessa & Bill Getty, Trevor & Alexis Traina, and Serge & Tatiana Sorokko are wealthier than you, punk.

"A San Francisco family is looking for a personal assistant / household manager to join our team on a long term basis." Are you that someone?

But wait, there's more: in addition to joining a family that refers to themselves as a "team," you--a "highly poised, polished, professional, and articulate" cad--will also conduct interviewing, hiring, firing, scheduling, resolving issues, and performance reviews of all household staff; be able to make all bill payments through Quicken (heh); act a grease monkey to their many fine automobiles; help their little brats out at school; assist in the maintenance of organization throughout household (i.e., labeling and organizing CDs, toy-bins, pantry, garage, storage locker etc.); make numerous trips to the pharmacy under an alias (we'll assume), and be this Marina/Cow Hollow clan's self-starting doormat.

And all this and more must be accomplished between a tight 15 to 20 hour week schedule. A firm grasp of reality, it seems, is not a qualification.

But the questions remains: whose family will you get to be a part of? Whose children born into what dynasty will get to call you "mom" or "dad" until you're fired for dipping into the Xanax jar or blowing papa in the conservatory? All these questions and more can be found out if you apply here. We're hoping it's a gig for Vanessa; otherwise, you're pretty much screwed.

For the full CL ad, follow the jump.

Personal Assistant / House Manager (marina / cow hollow) Reply to: tonismorgan@yahoo.com Date: 2008-01-22, 2:13PM PST


A San Francisco family is looking for a personal assistant / household manager to join our team on a long term basis. The position involves handling a high volume of logistics and scheduling for a family and full staff. He/she will be expected to serve as the team leader and coordinator of all things related to the household, the children and employer. The position is best suited for someone who is highly poised, polished, professional, and articulate who has experience working in a home. Hours are generally split between time at a desk working on the computer & in-box todo’s and running around doing errands or household tasks. This position is part time (15 to 20hours) per week: Monday and Thursday at the home and additional hours outside the home. Strong experience as an executive assistant/ personal assistant is a must.

Duties
• Management of all household staff (nannies primarily): interviewing, hiring, firing, scheduling, resolving issues, performance reviews etc..
• Make all bill payments through quicken & print out monthly budget reports
• Personal errands
• Sift through, organize and prioritize a high volume of invitations, mail & correspondence
• Maintenance of all cars (filling tanks, getting washed, keeping registration & stickers up to date, scheduling and overseeing repairs)
• Large photo projects
• Maintaining employers’ calendar appointments and social arrangements
• Occasional emergency babysitting
• Schedule & supervise household maintenance (carpet cleaners, plumbers etc)
• Helping out at kids schools (doing occasional shifts at fundraising events, etc..)
• Help maintain organization throughout household: periodically labeling and organizing CD’s, toy-bins, pantry, garage, storage locker etc…)
• Anticipate and help prepare for holidays, parties and special events
• Be generally available to work outside of normal hours and able to answer phone most always when employer calls.

Qualifications:
• Demonstrated long-term experience as high-level executive assistant and/or personal assistant in a busy multi-staff household.
• Extensive computer skills including Microsoft Office (including Outlook, Word, and Excel); Adobe photo; Quicken
• Outstanding references
• Excellent English speaking and writing skills a must
• Travel arrangement experience
• Strong research skills
• PC Lap top, cell phone and car
• Live in San Francisco or southern Marin
• Must be able to be flexible and available at a moment’s notice
• 4 year College degree preferred
• Candidate must be able & willing to make a 3 year commitment

Personal Qualities:
• Self motivated to continue to improve without prompting
• Extremely detail oriented
• Enthusiastic about new challenges
• A task master
• Able to be 2 steps ahead of employer in anticipating needs
• Not easily flustered with constant last minute changes
• Extremely professional with excellent boundaries
• Perfectionist!
• Can respond to feedback and take direction well
• Exceptionally trust worthy and loyal
• Great coordination and multi-tasking skills
• able to maintain equilibrium under stress
• Willingness to do whatever it takes & generally eager to please.
• consistently positive and upbeat disposition


How to Apply: ONLY RESUMES WITH COVER LETTERS WILL BE CONSIDERED. PLEASE INCLUDE RESUME IN BODY OF EMAIL (NO ATTACHMENTS). Email letter of introduction with hourly wage requirement to tonismorgan@yahoo.com.


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Comments (20)

LOL, I just saw Nanny Diaries last week. This is just like that. Answer phone whenever employer calls.......

 

My favorite part is, "Management of all household staff (nannies primarily): interviewing, hiring, firing, scheduling, resolving issues, performance reviews etc.. "

First of all, "Nannies?" How many do they have? It's understandable to contract out child care to a stranger, but to contract out yelling at your child-care provider seems a little short-sighted.

What's the point of having legions of people organizing your CD's and teaching Madison how to tie his shoes when you can't make them cry during the performance review or throw a cell-phone at their heads or something?

 

Well, maybe you'll get invited along to their vacation property on St. Croix:

http://www.canebayhideaway.com/rates.html

 

i noticed that earlier. do you think it's sean & toni morgan? expect for warm-weather lovers, who on earth are they?

 

Ahem.

"Must be able to be flexible and available at a moment’s notice"

and

"Email ... hourly wage requirement"

are two pretty fucking nervy standards to set when laid down together.

Either you're on salary when Ms. Steele wakes you at 3 AM, or you're not, and she shouldn't be calling. Do they really expect a college graduate not to know this?

(Unless they're paying $300+ p/h. In which case, I'd be happy to note every single moment I'm on the clock. But somehow I doubt that's the case.)

 

I swear that this ad was written by my self centered, hyper successful, multi-millionaire cousin. She's such a super bitch with no time for raising her little hell spawn - let alone taking on any personal responsibility for the care of her family or friends. Can't wait until her daughters get into coke and start banging NBA players. Bitch.

 

Helping out at kids schools (doing occasional shifts at fundraising events, etc..)

Oh, fuck you, bitch. Do your own parenting.

 

The devil wears Prada.

I like the fact that they can't read email attachments. The last EA most have deleted Word from their computer when s/he left after flipping out from abuse.

 

Wanted: Everyday parent to do normal parent things that are generally unpleasant for shitty pay on limited sleep, so I don't have to drive my Range Rover around with a car seat in it.

Southern Marin? What about NORTHERN San Mateo?

These people need a reality check they will sadly never get.

 

And they're looking for an afternoon nanny to join their "team" of nannies!

http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/dmg/547616487.html

 

I hope whoever takes the job is a blogger. A real active one.

 

nice find brock:) funny, i totally randomly came across this ad yesterday when i was browsing CL for interesting part-time work - and i was so amazed and amused at the tone and content that i ended up talking about it a bunch over dinner with friends. man, i feel sorry for these kids growing up thinking they need an army of nannies and household helpers because their own parents are so inept or indifferent or uninvolved. my favorite part by far is the requirement to work shifts at the kids' school fundraisers... unf*ckingbelievable!

 

you were the mysterious tipster, cat? thanks! and i'll credit you accordingly.

 

nope, it wasn't me, but next time i'll try to remember to send it your way!

 

They want Martha Stewart on a McDonald's wage.

 

ahhh, i see. well, whoever it was: thanks!

 

So who's gonna replying telling her to go f herself?

 

this is a riot. I love the qualifications:

Personal Qualities:
• Extremely detail oriented
• A task master
• Able to be 2 steps ahead of employer in anticipating needs
• Not easily flustered with constant last minute changes
• Perfectionist!

I bet they get some kind of perfectionist with this kind of thinking.

 

@ the absentee: well, I couldn't resist.

 

1 million bucks says this is fake.

 
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