Home Helps Needed For Female Writer In Notting Hill Gate

[scifisam]

Right, I've just sent an email to them, from an extra account, with one of my spare phone numbers in.

The phrasing in my email was entirely not serious, but, if it comes to it, when I next sign on, I could still bring this up as evidence of jobseeking.

(FTR: I actually am seriously looking for work in other ways. But I would not usually make a serious application for a job just because it's posted on a messageboard by someone wondering whether it's a scam [removes paranoia hat]).

 

[stuff_it]

This is probably why the ad is in all the time..she can't be sure who is genuine applicant so she bins most of them.

 

[winterinmoscow]

c'mon peeps, any news! I have to know the answer!!!

 

[Orang Utan]

bump!
anyone have any new ideas?

 

[Dirty Martini]

Is the ad still appearing?

 

[Orang Utan]

yes, was just looking at the job section now

 

[boohoo]

If it's the same on, it was there yesterday.

 

[Orang Utan]

it's still there today

 

[boohoo]

Maybe it's part of someone's will - the person has to keep on funding this ad indefinately to keep their inheritance from the rich lady author.
Or someone's writing a book - "people who replied to my ad -the funny bits"

 

[Dirty Martini]

Ach, it'll be someone gathering material for a book.

'For two years, Jenny Posh left an ad in the Guardian jobs section asking for a homehelp. This is the story of the people who answered it. There was the one-legged Bulgarian who immediately proposed marriage, the drunken playwright who insisted on being paid in whisky, and the struggling novelist who was writing a book about answering every ad in the Guardian jobs section for a year. A witty and at times moving cross-section of London life. If you liked Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, you'll love this.'

 

[Dirty Martini]

Or someone's writing a book - "people who replied to my ad -the funny bits"

Yep

 

[Strumpet]

How bizarre!

 

[boohoo]

Yep

Or "How one internet site's obssession with my ad ruined my book "

 

[Dirty Martini]

Or "How one internet site's obssession with my ad ruined my book "

That one might be worth reading. Schadenfreude is always good for a laugh.

 

[Divisive Cotton]

This sounds like a job for Longdog to get his teeth into!

 

[innit]

Maybe she's so pernickety that she still hasn't found an applicant she can stand the sound of?

 

[girasol]

I still think my theory is the most plausible one. Anyone up for writing to the Guardian and get someone to investigate? Might make a very interesting story.

Or a rather dull one...

 

[stuff_it]

I've moved to Milton Keynes, 30 min from Euston, shall I try it? I've got care experience and secretarial.....

 

[girasol]

I've moved to Milton Keynes, 30 min from Euston, shall I try it? I've got care experience and secretarial.....

you won't get a reply I don't think, lots of people, including myself have 'applied'...

 

[beeboo]

Blimey I forgot all about this.

Ach, it'll be someone gathering material for a book.

'For two years, Jenny Posh left an ad in the Guardian jobs section asking for a homehelp. This is the story of the people who answered it. There was the one-legged Bulgarian who immediately proposed marriage, the drunken playwright who insisted on being paid in whisky, and the struggling novelist who was writing a book about answering every ad in the Guardian jobs section for a year. A witty and at times moving cross-section of London life. If you liked Playing the Moldovans at Tennis, you'll love this.'

Well the best way to test that theory would be for someone to reply with an application so intriguing that it'd smoke them out.

The details of the ad have changed slightly, so it's not just the same ad being repeated time and time again.

Personally I think it's a genuine ad from a wealthy eccentric.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

This sounds like a job for Longdog to get his teeth into!

Go Longdog!

 

[yardbird]

This sounds like a job for Longdog to get his teeth into!

Agreed

 

[wonko the sane]

I was just reading the jobs section and thought exactly the same thing, and for some reason Google doesn't even seem to have an answer.... i don't believe that no-one knows. Doesn't someone know anyone at the Guardian ad department?

 

[Em Dee]

This thread has been unused for about two years, but I feel it my duty to tell you that I have applied, and that the telephone conversation that followed left me shivering in fear. Don't apply.

 

[purenarcotic]

What happened in the phonecall.

 

[lizzieloo]

This thread has been unused for about two years, but I feel it my duty to tell you that I have applied, and that the telephone conversation that followed left me shivering in fear. Don't apply.

God I hope you're for real.

Tell us more.......

 

[ice-is-forming]

This thread has been unused for about two years, but I feel it my duty to tell you that I have applied, and that the telephone conversation that followed left me shivering in fear. Don't apply.

yes! tell!

 

[smmudge]

lol that's proper freaked me out em dee, only because it appears that you have written the post IN BLOOD

 

[lizzieloo]

lol that's proper freaked me out em dee, only because it appears that you have written the post IN BLOOD

Dang Dang DAAAAAAAANG

 

[RubyToogood]

There's a bit about this on MoneySavingExpert also: http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=51128763&postcount=75