The Flip Flop Girl

HIGH HEELS GOT YOU DOWN?

Here is something sent in by a friend with a sense of humor and well as a sense of what is right and wrong. This is an ad on Craigslist in Seattle. The title and, as you will see, the content makes me think this is more appropriate as some sort of personals ad and not a professional ad seeking a potential employee.

The company, Seattle Stair, appears to do great woodwork and, from the ad, appears to have quite a foot fetish. Check it out.

Isn't it illegal to discriminate based on sex, etc? The ad doesn't explain how this administrative job has anything to do with being a woman, much less a woman who wears high heels. This is just hilarious. But it also makes me mad. And it baffles me too. What a sexist jerk! He probably lies around watching Fox News waiting for a peek at his new admin girl wandering around in flip flops. I could see this guy saying he's all innocent and didn't mean to offend anyone but that's pretty lame.

This is the original High Heels ad.
And what follows is the same ad:

High Heels Got You Down??

Reply to: job-455162074@craigslist.org
Date: 2007-10-21, 12:21AM PDT


Toss the heels and launch your career. Get with a company that’s more in tune with who you are. We are a growing design and craftsman oriented company doing work for an increasingly sophisticated clientele: CEO’s, Oprah Winfrey, politicians, Barney’s New York. We have projects in Seattle, the San Juans, Hawaii and elsewhere. We need someone to run the showroom and office for our local clients so we can remain strong and dedicated to our home market. We want to pursue estate level and commercial projects while not compromising our home turf. We will train you for this position if you have a related background we can build on.


This is a position for the girl who got her college degree, but never liked high heels or doesn’t like them any more. We need your brains, but you can toss the heels in the back of the closet. Our product and some of our projects are sophisticated. Our work environment is not. We are in a cool old building in SODO. The shop makes noise and dust. The showroom is unique, but is not Madison Avenue. We create beauty. Our clients love what we do for them. We are routinely told we care about our work, we understand our client’s needs, and we deliver stunning work they couldn’t find anywhere else.

Here’s our web link: www.seattlestair.com
Here’s a Seattle PI news story on us: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/307832_retail17.html
Or one from the Seattle Times: http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=craft18&date=20050618&query=davila+seattle+stair


Position Requirements:

College degree in any field

Min. 5 years experience in one or more related fields:
Sales/customer service
Bookkeeping
Design or autocad
Marketing
Construction (hands on) or
Construction (office/admin.)
Project management

Literate, well spoken, mature, real world savvy, fun loving, creative


This is a new position within the company geared toward:

1. Leveraging the company’s success into deeper market penetration in local residential stairs at all levels, and local and national stairs at the estate and commercial levels;

2. Bringing all administrative functions back on site and systematizing timely record keeping and production feedback; AR/AP/Payroll

3. Giving walk-in and call in customers prompt on demand service and beginning the design relationship through education. This is meant to both serve the customers and function as a working lab to identify customer’s key felt needs and apply test solutions to monitor effectiveness for further application and raise our connection rate with customers;

4. “Keeping the ship aright”, i.e. help out in the shop if you would enjoy this, assist with owner’s small apartment building/bookkeeping; provide support for Sales Manager and Foreman, enable reduction in owner’s schedule to four day work week, and other selected priorities.

This position is ready for immediate filling. Competitive pay and benefits + medical. Please reply with resume or questions.


Location: Seattle
Compensation: Depending on Qualifications
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
Please, no phone calls about this job!
Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.

PostingID: 455162074

Maybe you should answer the ad and let him know what you think.

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