The website Tropical SEO is about someone who is an SEO, which stands for “search engine optimizer,” or something like that. From what I’ve ascertained, this person has the ability to work from wherever (like, say, the tropics) and not go into an office. Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, right? Well, this SEO person has a manifesto, which includes the following items:
I pledge to strive wholeheartedly to make the most amount of money while doing the least amount of work possible.
Rock on, brother.
I pledge to get dressed only after the noon hour. Getting dressed implies putting on pajama pants or sweats instead of boxers only. It does not necessarily imply the presence of a shirt.
Preach it.
I pledge to have a secretary/personal assistant and/or mistress to take care of pesky details.
Um, wait. Now we have a problem. You’re enlightened, you have a hatred of the traditional workplace, we were with you until a second ago. But putting an assistant and mistress in the same sentence? No way. Making an assistant do work to support your slack-ass lifestyle? Seriously, no.
Read the rest here. And if you’re Mr. Tropical SEO, we’re happy to remind you what being an assistant, even on a nice sunny island, is like.
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