Help Wanted: Nemesis, enquire within (3)

Feb 28, 2008 2:48 PM CST Help Wanted: Nemesis, enquire within
hootsmann
hootsmannhootsmannZürich, Zurich Switzerland11 Threads 73 Posts
I have come to the uncomfortable conclusion that my grandmother was right: nothing good ever comes easily. This puts me in a quandary: I am ever hopeful that the future will be filled with much good (much, much good), and in order to ensure this comes to fruition I believe I need to increase the difficulty of every day life.

There are myriad ways to do this of course, but so many of them lack the Mano a Mano conflict of a good Nemesis.

Qualifications and duties should be very standard for a moderately skilled Nemesis:
* looming and foreboding presence
* regular thwarting of my carefully laid plans
* occasional midnight prank phone calls of the standard variety (Prince
Albert in a can, refrigerator running, etc.)
* incessant plotting for my eventual downfall

The compensation package is miserly to the point of insult -- a fact which is designed to increase the overall malevolence of my Nemesis.

The time line is short. I hope to have a working Nemesis in place by March 9.

Due to the complex nature of this business I will consider teams of Nemeses, although this is not my preference as I would like a clearly identifiable point of conflict.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please detail a short list of qualifications and a statement of why you feel you are the best candidate for this role.

All applications will be considered. Equal opportunity employer.
Mar 11, 2008 6:41 AM CST Help Wanted: Nemesis, enquire within
hootsmann
hootsmannhootsmannZürich, Zurich Switzerland11 Threads 73 Posts
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Mar 11, 2008 7:14 AM CST Help Wanted: Nemesis, enquire within
smoky
smokysmokyUnterland, Zurich Switzerland266 Threads 6 Polls 9,412 Posts
hootsmann: I have come to the uncomfortable conclusion that my grandmother was right: nothing good ever comes easily. This puts me in a quandary: I am ever hopeful that the future will be filled with much good (much, much good), and in order to ensure this comes to fruition I believe I need to increase the difficulty of every day life.

There are myriad ways to do this of course, but so many of them lack the Mano a Mano conflict of a good Nemesis.

Qualifications and duties should be very standard for a moderately skilled Nemesis:
* looming and foreboding presence
* regular thwarting of my carefully laid plans
* occasional midnight prank phone calls of the standard variety (Prince
Albert in a can, refrigerator running, etc.)
* incessant plotting for my eventual downfall

The compensation package is miserly to the point of insult -- a fact which is designed to increase the overall malevolence of my Nemesis.

The time line is short. I hope to have a working Nemesis in place by March 9.

Due to the complex nature of this business I will consider teams of Nemeses, although this is not my preference as I would like a clearly identifiable point of conflict.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please detail a short list of qualifications and a statement of why you feel you are the best candidate for this role.

All applications will be considered. Equal opportunity employer.



Well, I think you would do very well as a Nemesis all on your own? You just so confusing, the art of course would lie in extending this confusion to everyone you come into contact with. Especially good would be to prepare an extended version for reading to your bank manager whenever you intend withdrawing the smallest amount permissable - never withdraw large amounts, rather divide it up into amounts you can withdraw every hour throughout the day, five days a week, and insist on your constitutional rights to have the Manager attend to your very important withdrawals.

Another method would be to make regular request at your post office for any dis-used paper, and standing at one of their counters, with your nail scissors, make up your own patchwork envelopes, using their glue and those discarded edges of the stamps from their book of stamps. For writing use those 2 inch long pencils provided free by Ikea and request the post lady to keep sharpening them for you.

Take your own containers to the supermarket, and a fold-out table, and decant their yogurts, juices, dry goods, and other stuff into your own bottles and cans - and insist on not allowing their containers to cause you to have to re-cycle it for them

Of course, if you are meaning you are wanting to employ someone to do this for you ... well I am available, depending on the salary offered. Although that would mean employing someone to do all the above for me ... as I have only now gotten the bank, post office and supermarket used to my ways of doing business.

Is that what you mean by a Nemesis? I not too familiar with the meaning of that word. I would call it something like "Causing your own Downfall in Life"?
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