Window Washers Cleaning our Office Building in Downtown DC
So what does the help wanted ad look like??
Window Rappellers Needed: Tired of elevator music? Do you love to hang out all day? Want a job where the boss CAN’T look over your shoulder? Remember how you enjoyed the tire-swing as a youth? Do you genuinely enjoy scaring the crap out of unsuspecting office workers? Well, we need someone who is light on their feet; Possesses a Boy Scout knot-tying Merit Badge (please bring your handbook); Is completely oblivious to waving office personnel snapping pictures with their cell phones all day long. Prior Bungie-Jumping and/or Navy Seal experience a plus.
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May 16, 2008 at 12:54 pm
William
haha, prior navy seal experience a plus. ha
May 16, 2008 at 1:16 pm
nate
I think I’d apply at this point!
May 16, 2008 at 1:52 pm
ric booth
William, Yeah, I see a LOT of parallels in the 2 jobs. Repelling, scum removal, and water.
Nate, Hey, I’d hire you but fortunately I am not the hiring manager.
May 16, 2008 at 4:41 pm
samwrites2
Ric,
It’s spelled Rapelling. And doggone it that you’re not a hiring manager because I desperately need out of my current position and into a writing one. I do have technical writing on my resume but it’s been 11 years since my last gig.
-Sam
May 16, 2008 at 5:25 pm
samwrites2
Dang, I’m on a roll today. Sorry - it’s actually spelled “Rappelling.” I had to correct myself on an editor’s website today for writing a sentence with a subject-verb disagreement.
Ack!
And I had a “C” (3) on my latest performance appraisal Rick. Help me.
-Sam
May 16, 2008 at 11:35 pm
tam
“subject-verb disagreement.”
OK Ric - this was hilarious! Did you know Brent is ascared of heights? It’s actually pretty funny! He’d rather poke his eyes out with a plastic fork than hang outside 20 story buildings from a string!
May 16, 2008 at 11:58 pm
inWorship
Ok, after one look at that pic…I am in a corner sucking my thumb and crying for the world to stop!
May 17, 2008 at 9:03 am
ric booth
Hey Sam, Obviously speelling is not a job rhekwiremint but thanks I’m gonna edit it. We do have a documentation group in our shop & I do know the manager (he’s sits in the cell next to me).
Oh yeah, I am
-ed that your subjects and verbs aren’t getting along. Whenever my subjects start in I subject them to a good verbing.
Tam & Brent, Well this is ONLY 12 stories (muhahaha) and our office is on the eleventh floor. So B I’m guessing you’re not a retired Seal, huh?
May 17, 2008 at 10:40 am
1godsgal
This looks like a hoot!! I’d do it…for a day…”He sits in the cell next to me” Uh, Ric, is there something you’re not sharing here?
May 18, 2008 at 9:07 am
ric booth
Deb, Glad you liked it. If I hear that they’re hiring I will let you know!
I wrote about my cell a while back: the rich young american
May 19, 2008 at 9:50 am
L.L. Barkat
Ric, I was just in D.C. last week! I’m sure I must have passed this building at least once when I was lost (at least three times).
Love the want-ad. : )
May 19, 2008 at 10:10 am
ric booth
L.L., Welcome. Lost in DC, eh? I hope you were NOT driving! Driving in DC is a job best left to the ahh… professionals?