Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/18/help-wanted-social-media-mana.html
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That doesn’t seem particularly competitive, especially for a job based in London, free lunch with the rest of the skivvies or no.
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I’ll clean out all the Epstein didn’t kill himself memes from my accounts before apply ing
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My first thought too, the pay is low-ish. Not least because I’m sure they expect you to work many extra hours in - ehm, high-profile times.
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I can’t wait to see her tweets.
“My great-grandson Prince George refuses to eat his vegetables. Sad!!!”
“Meddling Meghan Markle decided she’s too good to spend the holidays with us and is planning to visit her mother instead. She won’t be missed!!”
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As someone who earns considerably less than that in a technically skilled job, it sounds alright to me.
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So its a lot of sorting pictures of corgis.
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I thought she was too busy being Boris Johnson’s campaign manager.
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Dollars to donuts that the job is already filled. In the UK, all public appointments must be publicly advertised for a set period of time. I wouldn’t pay any attention to the salary indication either.
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Oh, in a just world it would be more than fair. I can think of loads of jobs that should pay better than being Brenda’s Twitter flunky, starting with nurses and teachers and working from there.
But it’s got “Head” and “Social Media” in the title, and it’s in London, and it’s for the head of state: frankly, on the common standard for Bullshit But High-Profile Jobs, I’d expect a salary double that.
Hence the odds are that rather than getting someone with negligible talent, they’ll get one with actually zero: some Tarquin or Gemima so irredeemably useless that their parents’ connections can’t get them into even the most vapid media/marketing/communications “consultancy”.
So in 2020 I shall mostly be looking forward to the Queen accidentally retweeting a Nazi, PornHub, or both.
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Sadly, the last corgi died in 2018 and they are not getting new ones. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/10/26/queens-last-corgi-dies-ending-74-year-connection-breed/
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In 2015, the Queen decided to stop breeding Pembroke Welsh corgis over fears she might trip over and hurt herself. That’s kinda funny and an acknowledgment that corgis are the perfect size to stumble over.
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Having binge-watched The Crown recently, which among other things has docu-dramaed her numerous publicity mistakes since her coronation, all I can say is this move is about 67 years too late.
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The reviews I read of that programme indicate to me that the details are much more drama than doc. There’s a lot of pure fiction in it.
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