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Toilet: The Novel wants to hire you

Posted 11.09.2005 by Dave
PooperGal found this on Craigslist. I don't know anything more about it than what you see here...but I'd like it to be a PoopReporter who gets the job.

We are looking for two individuals to help support logistic operations in our small office. Candidates should possess a strong work ethic and history, a positive attitude, a college degree and be familiar with Toilet: The Novel. In addition, we are looking for individuals with a strong background in Philosophy (mainly Montaigne, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche) and literature (Kafka, T.S. Eliot, Kerouac, und so weiter). Bi-Tri lingual preferred.

1) Secretarial/Data Entry position: We are looking for an individual to process data, do light research, receive phone calls and assist in general office duties that include planning and fulfilling travel arrangements. Lower to mid-30's.

2) Account Supervisor: You will head logistics for the Toilet Team, a group of 4 people who are currently traveling around the country with toilet seats on their head in the deceased author's 96 Pontiac Sunfire. This will include making sure their travel arrangements are met, and doing research on local bookstores and libraries in the area they currently are in, shipping out valuable assets to the team (such as bookmarks, postcards and galley copies), and acting as liason between distributor and buyer, which includes processing orders, making deals with class clients, and informing local press of the Toilet Team's arrival. In addition, you will act in off-time as a sales manager, establishing contacts with bookstores and libraries, and also as a PR agent, creating connections in the Press and writing Press Releases which you will then distribute through the proper channels. Mid to upper 40's base salary.

This job is short term, beginning in December, 2005 (beginning with the ALA conference in Boston) and lasting until November, 2006 (ending with Miami-Dade Book Fair). However, depending on the success of the title, this could turn into a long-term position as we release other titles and work on the promotion of other books (the hope is that we will expand at that time to work with other clients seeking full service coast to coast guerilla marketing that works).

Only qualified candidates that are passionate about Toilet: The Novel need apply. Interested candidates should send resume and cover letter to toiletthenovel@aol.com.

Here's some info about Toilet: The Novel from Wiki: "Toilet: The Novel is an existential novel by Michael Szymczyk about a toilet that was transformed into a man, first published in 2004.

"The book is represented as a tribute to the literary works of Franz Kafka, and purported to be the founder of a movement in American literature called neo-existentialism. The book, making reference to existential themes of loneliness and death, explores the social effects of toilets transformed into people that retain the smell of excrement. It has been called, due to its numerous references to the Western intellectual tradition (such as Aeschylus, Nietzsche and Schopenhauer), a novel that embraces the past at the same time it breaks away from it."

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L Wrong Hubbard (216) -- 11.10.2005

Did I get First post? AM I in the club now?
Well, I know what the next book on my agenda is going to be...

Happy trails,
L. Wrong
Chairman & CEO, PPK Industries

L Wrong Hubbard (216) -- 11.10.2005

First post rocks. So does 2nd. OK. I am done now.

Happy trails,
L. Wrong
Chairman & CEO, PPK Industries

Logjam (2440) -- 11.10.2005

I don't imagine that the publisher of your book, Dave, has got a marketing plan in place yet, but you might send a copy of this to them. A team traveling around the country with toilets on their heads doing guerilla marketing sounds about right.

Dave (11627) -- 11.10.2005

I kinda doubt PR has the intellectual cache appropriate for their work. I mean, we are the intellectual appreciation of poop humor, but we're not in the same league. They are using the starting point of toilet as the most meaningless thing in the world to find meaning in the rest of the world; we are using the toilet to find meaning in the world of the toilet.

Logjam (2440) -- 11.10.2005

I was only thinking of the foundation of marketing scheme, not of a school of philosophy. However, I think PR has stamina because it doesn't stay confined to the commode. I think many of the stories here explore life basic issues -- death, love, ethical behavior, the good life -- all rooted in poop.

PooperGal (527) -- 11.10.2005

I'd say we on PR lean more toward the applied than the theoretical or philosophical. Though some of us have our most philosophical thoughts while on the crapper.

And, I'm not sure how philosophical I'd be if my crapper became human, although seeing the talking toilet on the Tidy Bowl tv commercials has, on occasion, made me think unsanitary thoughts.

PooperGal
"Searching for the Origin of the Feces"

Anonymous Coward (not verified) -- 01.18.2007

"I'd say we on PR lean more toward the applied than the theoretical or philosophical. Though some of us have our most philosophical thoughts while on the crapper.

And, I'm not sure how philosophical I'd be if my crapper became human, although seeing the talking toilet on the Tidy Bowl tv commercials has, on occasion, made me think unsanitary thoughts.

PooperGal
"Searching for the Origin of the Feces"
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A little late but just stumbled on this thread but have to give credit where credit is due. The above is a fantastic blog response.

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